Ariam WG

[Kourtney Penner @kourtpenner]

Administration has just confirmed that the costs to wind down the Green Line will exceed $2.1B

That's $2.1B (one third of project costs) to get ZERO kilometres of track vs $6.2B to get nearly 10km of track.

#yyccc #abpoli #ableg

[Tony Charron @manaboutcowtown]

So the new Premier and leader of the government that removed Alberta’s cap on electricity rates wrote a letter to the PM citing high electricity rates as an onerous expense that he needs to do something about? Do I have that right.

[Joe Ceci @joececiyyc]

It's one month since Danielle Smith was sworn in as Premier.

Here are a few things she's done IN ONE MONTH. #ableg 🧵 1/15

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

BREAKING: Toronto Police have released data showing Black people were 230% more likely to have a police officer point a firearm at them when they appeared to be unarmed than white people.

I don't want to hear anyone say that systemic racism doesn't exist in policing EVER AGAIN.

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

Fifth: Vaccination in conjunction with other measures could have stopped the pandemic, but over reliance on vaccination alone undermined its utility because of new variants that would not have arisen if we effectively used other measures to reduce transmission.18/

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

There are 5 pillars of prevention: Masking, Ventilation, Testing, Social distancing, and Vaccination.

Each of these has multiple levels. From poor to outstanding.13/

[Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam]

Why do I say we can do something when there is so much defeatism as well as wishful thinking that ending the pandemic will just happen by itself?

Let’s start by addressing the mistaken belief that we can’t do anything.12/

[Raj Bhardwaj @RajBhardwajMD]

2. Everyone is getting Covid, not just vaccinated people.
But because there are SO MANY MORE vaccinated than unvaccinated, it seems like vaccinations don’t help…
That's called the Base Rate Fallacy:

https://t.co/GuRAhA5y7H

[Raj Bhardwaj @RajBhardwajMD]

Simple questions sometimes elicit complex answers.

Here's a short-ish thread answering this good question...

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

"Living with COVID" shouldn't mean getting reinfected with COVID over and over because the government doesn't want to try anymore.

[Marius Kothor, Ph.D. @MariusKothor]

I spent most of my childhood in and out of refugee camps and I'm thinking about how different my life would've been if all these nations had opened their borders to my family when we were fleeing political conflict in the early 90s. Instead we lingered in refugee camps for 7 yrs.

[Courtney Walcott @CWalcottYYC]

Stories of racism like this one, of Lou Darby, are not a part of the everyday Calgary narrative

But they need to be so we can stop talking about the rise in Racism here, but rather, how it's always been a part of Calgary's fabric.

That's how we fight it, by first knowing it.

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

You can't just declare the pandemic over, having done nothing whatsoever to build increased healthcare capacity or increased environmental mitigation (because you prefer to deny it's airborne, because you prefer not to spend necessary $, or simply because you can't be bothered).

[collagen machine broke @chronicallybeee]

so, since some people genuinely don’t understand why immunocompromised and high risk people are freaked out and upset, i’ll explain! 🧵

[Courtney Walcott @CWalcottYYC]

If you stand for, beside, or in defense of people waving Swastikas, Confederate Flags, secessionist flags and spewing far right extremist views - you're either being used or you believe it

There is no nuance in hate.

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

To be precise, this was another attack on a BLACK muslim women which has been a trend in Alberta. This has to stop. #community #safety

[ActionDignity @actiondignity]

Vaccine walk ins! No appointments necessary. #yyc #VAXXED

[Joe Ceci @joececiyyc]

Reminder that thanks to @jkenney you pay more for your income tax, car insurance, tuition, electricity, education property taxes, vehicle reg, camping, x-country skiing, phone bills, parks, and more. #ableg

[Ariam WG @ariamwg]

@ab_vax lots of Pfizer booster appointments available this week at the AHS Bow Trail Immunization Clinic. Make sure to search for the city in case you live far from it #Covid19AB