Global News is very butthurt about Alberta’s new Covid report

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Alberta’s Minister of Health says it contains “a broad range of perspectives,” — comprised of health care professionals, academics, researchers and advisers,” and it’s recommendations offer a perspective on how the government can be better positioned to protect the health and safety of Albertans in the future.”
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Critics call it “a sad document — that lacks significant credibility,” one that “takes a lot of pieces of information completely out of context.”
On Friday afternoon (Jan. 24, 2025) the government of Alberta quietly released the report of a task force, that assessed the province’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The report — with a budget of $2 million — was commissioned shortly after Danielle Smith swept to power in late 2022, promising to redress the COVID-19 grievances of her supporters.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, swept to power, promising to address the COVID-19 grievances of UCP members.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, swept to power, promising to address the COVID-19 grievances of UCP members.Global News
The task force was chaired by Dr. Gary Davidson, a former chief of emergency medicine at Red Deer Hospital, who, during the height of the pandemic, accused the province of exaggerating Covid-19’s impact, saying the number of hospital admissions were overblown – being manipulated to justify public health restrictions.
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Smith defended Davidson’s appointment saying she wanted to hear a wide range of viewpoints, including from those “shouted down in the public sphere.’

Amongst the other dozen members of the task force was, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an outspoken critic of American Covid-19 policies, and President Donald Trump’s choice to run the U.S. National Institute of Health.
But Dr. Brian Conway, Medical Director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Center, criticized the document saying, “this is a report that is written by individuals who clearly had an agenda, who did not want it to be peer review.”
“Deena Hinshaw (former Alberta Chief Medical Officer) is not involved even as a contributor and as someone who would comment on the report — and she’s the one leading all of the decisions that are made in Alberta. How can you write a report about what happened in Alberta without Deena Hinshaw,” asked Conway.
Critic's of the Alberta government's Covid-19 task force, point out that former Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who headed up the province's Covid-19 response, wasn't even interviewed for the report.
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Critic’s of the Alberta government’s Covid-19 task force, point out that former Chief Medical Health Officer, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who headed up the province’s pandemic response, wasn’t even interviewed for the report. Global News
“Some of the key decision makers, who are not in government, but apparently even within government, wouldn’t talk to the task force because I think they felt — and rightly so — that the deck was already stacked against them,” said Mount Royal University Political Science Professor, Dr. Duane Bratt.
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“I think that’s what’s happened here. Like it was a group of people who are selected, who are already known in the public domain to have extreme or fringe views about things like vaccination and about things like, you know, restrictions, public health restrictions,” said Dr. Lynora Saxinger, an infectious disease specialist from the University of Alberta.


The report is 269-pages long and contains a long list of grievances over the province’s pandemic response.
Among the reports findings and recommendations:
  • It says Alberta should refrain from future mask mandates for respiratory illnesses because, “there is no benefit for masking asymptomatic individuals,” and cites potential harms of masking, such as self-contamination, discomfort, and a false sense of security”;
  • It criticizes the use of lockdowns to control the spread of the disease saying “the stringency of NPIs (non pharmaceutical measures) had a small relative effect on the growth of infections”;
  • It says rapid tests with reasonable accuracy should not be used for screening the general population and “future pandemic responses should prioritize minimizing severe disease and mortality over extensive case detection,”
  • It promotes herd-immunity or “infection-acquired immunity” that it says is “poorly understood” — nothing that during the Athenian plague of 430 B.C. recovered individuals “were never attacked the same way twice – never at least fatally.”
  • It says there needs to be more protection of physician’s right to prescribe and a pharmacist’s ability to promote alternative treatments such as Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, that, in their professional judgement — are in a patient’s best interest; and,
  • It recommends the Alberta government immediately halt the use of all COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure to patients regarding both the safety and efficacy issues by their physician, saying based on evidence that has emerged to date — most of which was supplied by the vaccine manufacturers — it “cannot be concluded that these COVID-19 vaccines are safe.”
Among the task force's recommendations is the government of Alberta immediately halt the use of all COVID-19 vaccines because, based on evidence that has emerged to date, it cannot be concluded that these vaccines are safe.
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Among the task force’s recommendations is the government of Alberta immediately halt the use of all COVID-19 vaccines because, based on evidence that has emerged to date, it “cannot be concluded that these vaccines are safe.” Global News
This is completely dangerous,” said Dr. Conway. “It speaks of the fact that we neglected natural immunity — hybrid immunity. We did not. This was part of the messaging from very early on. It speaks of the vaccine being ineffective. It’s highly effective. Before the clinical trials initial trials report published, we had stated that 50 per cent efficacy in these trials would be something very important — but it was over 80 per cent.
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“It’s taking a lot of pieces of information completely out of context,” said Conway. “So it’s surprising to me that a document of this type might make it to to the Premier’s office and receive any credibility.
 
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It feels so strange to agree with a gov't over something after so many years of bullshit. I really hope this cultural shift continues. I haven't fully made up my mind about Danielle Smith but at least she is a nice break from politicians who are too afraid to say the wrong things because of how newspapers will cover it, but these publications are losing power by the minute.
 
So butthurt. So afraid of their preposterous and epically bad decisions being challenged even now.
 
Another COVID Lie Bites the Dust As Study Finds No Correlation Between School Closings and Transmission
  • new study results published by the Journal of Infection further undermine the lies and obfuscations told by the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci — who indignantly declared in June 2021: “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science” — the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), and others in positions of authority, including within the federal government.
  • Among the most stunning, yet hardly surprising, findings (emphasis, mine).

Conclusions​

Reopening schools did not change the existing trajectory of COVID-19 rates.
In other words, as George Washington University Law School Professor and political commentator Jonathan Turley put it:

We shut down our schools, without any demonstrable benefit to the country. We did, however, succeed in reducing free speech in the name of combating “disinformation.”
Precisely. According to the study, the scientists found no significant differences in reported cases:

No consistent patterns in cases, hospitalizations or deaths [were found] despite school re-openings or changes to public health measures.
  • Yet, the COVID scolds — with Fauci as the hood ornament of the lying clown car — dismissed challenges to their lies and incorrect assumptions and conclusions as “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and other left-wing buzzwords, when it turns out that they hid or ignored valid data and studies that ran counter to their narratives.
Source: redstate.com
 
Take it or dont, I give no fucks. If you can’t discern self preservation from being led down a garden path then thats what we call natural selection. End of story
 
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