The British Medical Association - Scotland criticized removal of masks in healthcare. Meanwhile, the Alberta Medical Association & multiple Alberta ID docs justified the removal of masks here. What's going on in Alberta healthcare? Why don't they think of patient safety?

When you're seeing photos of maskless rich people partying? This is what you're not seeing. They've all tested beforehand and screened their guests, using MULTIPLE layers of protection. They are not taking any chances with this virus, because they know it is very, very serious.

Welcome, class. This is lecture number infinity on the same topic, privatizing public goods. We don’t do it, or we shouldn’t. Because what happens when you hand control of a monopoly over necessities of life to…profit-maximizing “entities”? 2/

Matt's witness statement fleshes things out. Indeed he comes over all philosophical.
The joint enterprise to sideline and neuter Britain's pandemic planning was not only wrong but a betrayal of democracy itself, he suggests.

I wonder if this, in part, is what's happened to Canadian news media.

I'm watching 'Escape to the Country' 2015 reruns. Seems like everyone planned to work from home. That was in 2015 - WFH wasn't some alien idea, even for lawyers working in firms.

So, why all the complaints in 2023?

This.
We've forgotten a number of things that Florence Nightingale knew ~150 years ago.
Covid is not the only airborne disease, and is unlikely to be the last airborne pandemic. Let's make hospitals safe.

Hospitals should be a place of safety. A place where the most vulnerable in society can attend to get help, free at the point of care...(for how long?!). #SaveOurNHS
Moreover, it's also one of the largest employers in the UK...there is a duty of care for staff as for patients.

And while you & your friends don't track COVID-HAI deaths in 🇨🇦 either, Australia does.

10.6% mortality.

Again, there is zero reason to suspect 🇨🇦 may be better.

In fact, just the opposite.

There is no 'divisiveness' in our community.

There's far-right extremism attempting to rewrite history and erase marginalized groups.

There are astroturfed groups, funded by those who aim to destroy public education.

There's an effort to weaponize parenthood.

“People like myself picked up their COVID, not in a hospital but in a restaurant or from a family member.”

find the logical flaws in this statement. There are at least three, which is impressive for 20 words. I'll share my three in an hour.

I bet your decision is science-free, math-free and evidence-free.
And based mostly on math-free, calculation-free, not-based-in-evidence takes of infection control MDs.

Alberta Health Services , prove me wrong. Show me the calculations of costs (expressed in health outcomes and $$)

Careful review... of non-existent Covid testing numbers? Of Covid updates that are ALWAYS late bec of 'technical issues'? Of the level of HCW shortages? Of the number of vulnerable people who MUST attend healthcare facilities? Of global evidence that this is a bad idea?

Global defends their foreign interference articles with - they're 'allegations' not facts.
The problem is that it's tainted every Global News person. I now wonder if they're publishing news or gossip.
Why did they think this was better than a retraction & apology?

Not ONE Alberta Conservative MP decided to show up for the Emergency debate on the wildfires tonight.

But it would be completely improper for her, as Premier, to use public $ or the resources of the GoA to give failed UCP candidates a platform as official advisors yielding a partisan advantage of visibility & influence in communities where they intend to be candidates again.

We cannot let that form of systemic hate to take hold in this province, and we should not be giving Danielle Smith and the UCP the benefit of any doubts on this front. When people tell you who they are, believe them.

“It’s a slap in the face, where you feel like you’re trying to make it better and trying to offer these opportunities for them to learn and to understand” but they don’t respond thestar.com/news/canada/20…

UCP using the same play book.

“We should [instead] fund patients, either through the tax system or by way of universal insurance, to purchase healthcare from the provider of their choice. Those without means would have their contributions supplemented or paid for by the state.”