Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[chedder]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

How a normal person gets a Covid-19 vaccine:


1)Book an appointment.
2)Get injection.


How our dear leader gets a covid-19 vaccine.






Drug that cannot be named? Was she taking Ivermectin prophylactically? Who TF is her "doctor" and how does he have a license?

Undoubtedly her chiropractor! Or maybe an equine naturopath.

[Geraldsh]

Probably a prescription for quicksilver, it used to cure constipation, melancholy, and syphlis to name a few.

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

How a normal person gets a Covid-19 vaccine:


1)Book an appointment.
2)Get injection.


How our dear leader gets a covid-19 vaccine.






Drug that cannot be named? Was she taking Ivermectin prophylactically? Who TF is her "doctor" and how does he have a license?

If she's not naming it, and she's worried about blood clots after, then she's getting the vaccine. It's not a difficult code to unwrap.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

If she's not naming it, and she's worried about blood clots after, then she's getting the vaccine. It's not a difficult code to unwrap.

She says right in there that she's getting J&J. Then that she's taking some magical elixir for 3 days after

[Ozy_Flame]

Didn't this woman just say a couple days ago she has a really healthy immune system? Why is she taking a cocktail of random crap for a month after if her immune system is incredible, including possibly some random, pseudo-science drug she doesn't want to say? What's the point of that statement if she doesn't want us to know? That's a dog whistle if I've ever heard one.

Most of us just got vaccinated and that was that.

She is so, so weird.

[puffnstuff]

Qanielle Smith

[Jimmy Stang]

Tweet is from 2021. She’s still crazy and a dog whistler - but Albertans have given her a larger whistle.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Didn't this woman just say a couple days ago she has a really healthy immune system?

That’s exactly what she said, then was parroted by her health minister. These are the folks who set health policy.

[para transit fellow]

For tears I have heard the folks here on Calgarypuck suggest Nuclear fission is a viable solution to Alberta's energy challenges. SIMILARLY, I HEARD INTEREST FROM THE Alberta Government about nuclear energy.

After all these years.... what keeps Alberta from making Nuclear happen?

Capital investment?
Nuclear waste issues?
Financing?
Geotechnical concerns?

Seems like it is time to poop or get off the throne....

[#-3]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

For tears I have heard the folks here on Calgarypuck suggest Nuclear fission is a viable solution to Alberta's energy challenges. SIMILARLY, I HEARD INTEREST FROM THE Alberta Government about nuclear energy.

After all these years.... what keeps Alberta from making Nuclear happen?

Capital investment?
Nuclear waste issues?
Financing?
Geotechnical concerns?

Seems like it is time to poop or get off the throne....

Partly that Alberta was too small of a backwater in the era when we could build Nuclear, and partly nimbyism. Basically even though statistically safer than living near a coal or gas plant, or near a mine, compared to any any of those we have a visceral fear of nuclear. So because of the natural opposition that exists, new developments have a lot more costs and longer timelines, than just the cost and time of building itself. Canada hasn't broken ground on a Nuclear installation since Chernobyl.

The real question is how do you position nuclear to limit public opposition. How to you communicate the risks and risk radius effectively. That's one of the reasons people put a lot of hope in SMRs. It might be a frame shift where you tell people the lot that the installation is on has "nuclear risk" but an entire large town doesn't have to live in the shadow of the installation.

[wireframe]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

For tears I have heard the folks here on Calgarypuck suggest Nuclear fission is a viable solution to Alberta's energy challenges. SIMILARLY, I HEARD INTEREST FROM THE Alberta Government about nuclear energy.

After all these years.... what keeps Alberta from making Nuclear happen?

Capital investment?
Nuclear waste issues?
Financing?
Geotechnical concerns?

Seems like it is time to poop or get off the throne....

Some combination of the first three. Nuclear plants are very, very expensive to build. Modern plants have been blowing past their already huge construction budget too. There is interest from people I'm chairs but we need someone to out up to a few hundred million dollars to start something.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

For tears I have heard the folks here on Calgarypuck suggest Nuclear fission is a viable solution to Alberta's energy challenges. SIMILARLY, I HEARD INTEREST FROM THE Alberta Government about nuclear energy.

After all these years.... what keeps Alberta from making Nuclear happen?

Capital investment?
Nuclear waste issues?
Financing?
Geotechnical concerns?

Seems like it is time to poop or get off the throne....

Alberta is a deregulated market where no government controlled corp does generation. Basically, any business can submit a proposal to build a nuclear plant. The government could offer subsidies or meet with industry and try to sweet talk them into it, but someone has to want to spend billions doing it because there'd be a business case for it. I'll leave the why doesn't anyone want to do it for someone else as I've explained my thoughts on the energy transitions thread and it's a fairly spicy topic

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by wireframe

Some combination of the first three. Nuclear plants are very, very expensive to build. Modern plants have been blowing past their already huge construction budget too. There is interest from people I'm chairs but we need someone to out up to a few hundred million dollars to start something.

It starts at a few billion, not hundreds of millions

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://twitter.com/user/status/1707820533579133273


Anyone else in love with this reality where we spend our tax dollars to pay for a diesel truck to drive around Ottawa to show the rest of the country just how serious we are about ####ing up the planet?

UCP UCP UCP

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

How a normal person gets a Covid-19 vaccine:


1)Book an appointment.
2)Get injection.


How our dear leader gets a covid-19 vaccine.






Drug that cannot be named? Was she taking Ivermectin prophylactically? Who TF is her "doctor" and how does he have a license?

What a ####ing sack of ####. She is such a ####ing horrible mess of a person.

[stazzy33]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1708180693296226692

[chedder]

Originally Posted by stazzy33

https://twitter.com/user/status/1708180693296226692

And yet I've already heard people praising this saying they were getting paid way too much to give a simple needle. We are surrounded by morons.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by chedder

And yet I've already heard people praising this saying they were getting paid way too much to give a simple needle. We are surrounded by morons.

Can we cut Oil Field workers pay as well?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by chedder

And yet I've already heard people praising this saying they were getting paid way too much to give a simple needle. We are surrounded by morons.

I don't have the details as I'm not a Doctor or Pharmacist but I saw a response from a Pharmacist on Reddit saying that this move is just an alignment of the fee structure and puts the fee at the same level between Pharmacists and Doctor's offices. Apparently previously the Pharmacists were being paid significantly more than Doctors.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by chedder

And yet I've already heard people praising this saying they were getting paid way too much to give a simple needle.

Honestly, if administering my vaccines to myself was an option and I just paid a small dispensing fee, I'd do that. It was something like $75 to do my Twinrix.