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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Do you understand how government works? Civil servants inform and advise the elected government. Then the elected government makes policy, and civil servants carry it out.
Hinshaw only failed in her role if she gave Kenney’s government bad advice, or if she did a poor job of communicating the government’s policy to health care workers and the public.
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For the record, my comment isn't about her salary, I already made my view clear about that and it isn't condemning her.
Edit: Is the below not true? Is she not acting in a professional capacity as a doctor when she spoke and signed off on directives? If so my point starts to loose its footing but I think she is given her title and her signature.
She is not a politician, nor is she a normal pubic servant -she is acting as a doctor in a professional capacity and therefore bound by those ethics:
She signed off on the health orders
She signed off on the memos
She spoke on the podium
IF she didn't think this was best for the people of Alberta, she was ethically obligated to speak up publicly, resign or not sign her name off on the plans- let the elected people put their signature there. She didn't speak up or resign and publicly endorsed the path forward. Tough gig but she signed up for a tough gig and put her name endorsing many of the UCP actions, she doesn't get to hide behind the UCP. Even if shes not a doctor, you as an individual still are represented by what you sign your name to and say.
She sent the memo to the family doctors saying they would test Covid in their clinics in the height of the delta wave in Aug 2021. Clinics with other sick people, clinics not set up to get mass people coming in for testing, clinics that simply wouldn't have the resources to do this, or frankly the family doctors wouldn't have the time - they aren't exactly basking in off time.
She told the family doctors she had statistics and models to support this was the right call. The deadline came when she was going to provide- nothing happen. A week went by and I think it was another week before the data was presented- it was concluded by anyone I spoke to about it that the "data" was a joke.
A joke was shown to be true when they ended up reverting their decision after the family doctors lost their ####.
I am hoping an actual family doctor responds and can see how off or correct my history is here.
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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah, and its something we also have to be cognizant of, I think its something that we are going to have very differing opinions about as time goes on.
Here we are talking about the Pandemic like its over already, but over the past few months especially after the restrictions were largely repealed, I think people have to be careful about 'revisionist history.'
The Doctors had no idea what they were doing in the beginning. Because nobody did. They were just rolling with the best information they had at the time and looking around to see what other communities were doing.
Its disingenuous to evaluate March 2020 decisions with August 2022 perspective.
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On many many many aspects of the pandemic I agree. Do we open up schools early or close them, do we allow freedoms of people or reduce to protect more people, I 100% agree hard and impossible choices were made that even today we can't properly evaluate.
But no, not on all things, see my response to the other poster at the start of this message.