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Originally Posted by Dion
Blame Dr. Andre Corriveau who said it was his decision to initially open clinics to all Albertans last Monday. Also the federal govt for giving out much the same message.
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Sorry, but I don't buy that. Liepert and his Tory bros are making Corriveau take the fall in an effort to save their sad political behinds in my opinion. Corriveau doesn't rely on the electorate for his job, Liepert and company do. Liepert has told so many lies on this already that I don't buy anything that comes out of his mouth.
Liepert claims that the gov't stated very clearly right from the start that it was supposed to be high risk people only at first. Well, I never heard that until the proverbial dung started to hit the fan towards the end of the week. At the beginning Stelmach was going around saying come one, come all ... Alberta is vaccinating everyone. Only when things started to breakdown after the first couple days did Liepert start yammering about vaccinating high risk people only. And then he lashed out at the media, the public and now Corriveau for being to blame for all the problems. Sorry Ron, this one lands in your lap. Be a man and own it.
I don't buy that Corriveau and other top health advisors would have suggested opening things up to everyone knowing the supply chain was inadequate. My line of work provides me with connections to top emergency response personnel across Canada. There are emergency plans in place at both the federal and provincial levels to deal with all types of emergencies, and most especially for a flu pandemic. A flu pandemic has been anticipated for years, and plans are in place. The plans were ignored though. How do I know this? A good friend of mine was on the federal team that wrote a comprehensive national response plan for pretty much any kind of disaster/emergency you can think of. Biological emergencies is my friend's special field of expertise so the pandemic portion of the plan was the part she was most involved with. This plan included coordination of efforts and resources at both the national and provincial level. While I have not read the plan because I'm not privy to it, based on my informal discussions with my friend I can pretty much guarantee the Alberta government broke from the plan. My hunch is that Stelmach is so desperate to score some political goodwill that he figured he'd be the hero and shoot everybody up with the flu vaccine, when other provinces weren't. His upcoming leadership review probably doubled the pressure for him to score some political goodwill.
One other thing ... Drumheller is a small community so I know some of the local health care people who are responsible for administrating the program here. None of the people I've spoken to received any directives about vaccinating the high risk part of the population only. Liepert is just a liar, that's all. It's no coincidence his surname starts with "Lie".