Monday, October 17, 2022

Meanwhile, In The Land Of The Looney

Danielle Smith cultivates her tribe.

H/t de Adder


However, those inoculated against her lunacy beg to differ.


Anti-vaxxers are wilfully ignorant and uncaring about their responsibilities in society. To my mind, for Danielle Smith to say they are being discriminated against is akin to saying that incarcerating crooks is discrimination against the criminal class. Before discounting this comment, consider the thousands of people that failed, through no fault of their own, to get timely medical care because hospitals were unnecessarily challenged by unvaccinated, COVID-19 patients!

As of February 2022, over 900,000 people had died of COVID in the U.S. If the Canadian program had been in place, with 91 deaths per 100,000 people, the U.S. would have seen 600,000 fewer people die. This was because of Donald Trump rhetoric, like that of Smith.

These are irresponsible statements from a main-stream politician. Is Smith really this ignorant or dismissive of medical science? Or is this an attempt to garner votes?

Tom McElroy, Professor Emeritus, York University


The unvaccinated are the most discriminated against group Danielle Smith has ever seen? How does someone with so little lived experience ever get elected? A quick search for “Amnesty International” will show that unvaccinated are among the world’s most privileged and pampered victims ever.

Paul Collier, Toronto

As with Covid-19, one wonders when this pandemic of demagoguery, ignorance and manipulation will end.



6 comments:

  1. The Alberta NDP may put Ms Smith’s ‘ascension’ on hold..
    that is.. if she doesn’t do it herself. I really don’t know if Mainstream Partisan Media can dampen her outrageous ‘reality’. Her back-trail is essentially rancid.. strewn with truly ugly & shallow political ideology

    The future ? Murky.. & just browsing Twitter, many of her toxic musings, deception, plans are quite hostile, bitter & threatening. If she proceeds with any sort of Purge within Public Service, the blowback may be ferocious. A Purge within the malignancy, secrecy & unaccountability of Kenney’s UCP may boomerang horribly. The tales that can be told.. whistleblowers, leaks could destroy the Party.. and trash her ‘Loyalists’. These are not ‘nice people’ & that includes her. Jason Kenney ‘set the table’ for her
    and she’s climbing right up on top of it. An Unelected Premier of Alberta with a Majority Government ? ? Who knew ? The smug ‘legacy’ of Jason Kenney - the ‘Great Albertan’ who ran out of gas
    🦎

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    1. It will be indeed very interesting to see if recent Albertan history repeats itself with Smith at the helm, Sal.

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  2. Unfortunately, Lorne, some of us believe that being unqualified and self-absorbed are the hallmarks of leadership.

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    1. A fatuous notion that they seem to lack the intellect to realize, Owen.

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  3. My cousin is still in a coma after taking a booster shot 2 weeks ago. Safe and effective.

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    1. I'm sorry about your cousin, Anon, but I suspect there is much more to the story than you are sharing here.

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