David Mitchell

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[tern @1goodtern]

Honest question, is the bar now set so low that people will only do something if it's an extinction level event?

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@michael_wiebe @maxfawcett The median household will be right there in the middle of the 3rd quintile: net advantage until just the last two years of this chart. Adding up the annual balances, they will still have received more that they put in by the end of the study period.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Other Canadians are going to get access to Pharmacare, but the UCP is going to keep Albertans out. The UCP wants to deny us all the benefits of being Canadian. Just so they can “own the libs.” We suffer because of their spite. Worst Alberta govt ever. https://t.co/FKWJOLiw8J

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

For the sake of Albertans, just accept the darn plan. Being a stick in the mud changes nothing except hurting Albertans.

And to say you don't like it, MOH, because you haven't seen the feds *VISION * - well that is beyond rich. Where's yours?

https://t.co/gxwn6vcj0i

[Steve the Book Guy @SteveTheBookGuy]

Lots of folks out there falling prey to the "Sunk Cost" fallacy which states: reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.

Cut your losses, mask up. It's ok.

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@yegwave I’m sure this says more about who will participate in an Yegwave Instagram poll than it does about Albertans generally.
From within my household?
“I wouldn’t touch Yegwave’s Instagram comments with a ten-foot pole”

[tern @1goodtern]

I am grateful to anyone who acknowledges that covid is dangerous and does *anything* to reduce its spread.

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@Mitchell_AB We want to do solidarity and collective bargaining individually
/s

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@TRyanGregory @1goodtern It makes as much sense as saying that the path to strength is to repeatedly break your limbs

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Hi. Evolutionary biologist here. No. None of this is accurate.

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@SeditiousMe It’s funny how for centuries “eyes are the windows to the soul” until folks feel a need to make an argument against masks. We’ll have to change all our sayings:

“Ma, he’s makin’ eyes at me”
“Ma, he’s makin’ lips at me” ?

Don’t roll your eyes at me
Don’t roll your nostrils?

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@TRyanGregory These idiotic “Darwinians” are arguing that we cast off our essential nature for a callous, selfish view of humanity? We have enjoyed a brief century of relief from the hellishness of rampant disease and these people want to throw it away?
I, for one, won’t be part of that.

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[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@TRyanGregory Ever since humans have been even remotely human, the archaeological record shows what we do is to care for each other - help the injured, the sick, the weak, the elderly defy the odds - this is the core of what makes us human and makes us successful.

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[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

Folks in western canada… anyone interested in a campsite? We have a site at Hidden Valley in the Shuswaps Sun to Fri July 30- Aug 4. We can’t go for reasons and they have a very restrictive cancellation policy. The site will fit a tent trailer or large tent.
DM for details.

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@carter_AB The grass is pretty green over here at https://t.co/qooUTjMbHS

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@Dramatha @JasonPYYC You are the only ones allowed to do that, and it sure sends a stronger message than just no.

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@connieinygk @Scribulatora @Kelans27 Several people have said ‘insurance covers this’… following the analogy to a country, what is this ‘insurance’ that pays on behalf of a nation?

[tern @1goodtern]

The older generation in the UK do now believe that they *should* catch Covid.
I was on a zoom meeting last night with a group laughing and joking about how tired their new infections made them.
We have gone over the edge.

[David Mitchell @DavidM_yeg]

@newfangl3d #yegcc and #yegadmin certainly feels (in everything) like the tail is wagging the dog.