Battle of the Passive-Aggressives

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Aug 21

RE: Hajdu asks Alberta why it’s lifting remaining COVID-19 restrictions. The Canadian Press, published in the Hamilton Spectator 6 Aug 21.

Federal Minister of Arrogance Patty Hadju in typical passive-aggressive fashion asked in writing of Alberta Minister of Health Tyler Shandro why his province was restoring freedom.  Hadju expressed it as “sharing her concerns” about the province’s “unnecessary and risky gamble” to lift all COVID-19 restrictions.

There isn’t a smidgeon of sincerity in the letter.  The Canadian Paediatric Society, whose concerns the Minister, in her expert self is sharing, is a professional advocacy group which expressed an opinion that Hadju happily shares.  If Hadju were sincerely interested in knowing why, she, like everyone else, can watch on YouTube the passive-aggressive Dr. Deena Henshaw, Alberta’s Chief medical Officer of Health, get interrogated by a CBC interviewer.

The basic answer is that there are more public health issues out there than COVID, some created by the excessive use of lockdowns: drug addiction, an explosion of syphilis, lack of cancer screenings, and lack of regular vaccinations in school being a few.  And the Alberta Health Care system isn’t about to be overwhelmed and collapse anymore, the prevention of which was the expressed purpose of the now superfluous lockdown restrictions.  Never mind the province is fed-up and quaking with rebellion.

All Hadju is looking for is a cudgel to passively-aggressively pound people who disagree with her all-knowing self.

The Alberta Minister would be wise to reply that he doesn’t answer to her, and maybe send her a link to the interviews Henshaw gave.

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