November 6, 2024
Hypocrisy during a pandemic is politically fatal and rightly so
Melanie Behm (L) is shown with her grandfather Jim Wood (R) in an undated family photo. Behm is furious that Alberta MLAs and government staff members flouted the spirit of Alberta's COVID-19 restrictions to travel to sunny vacation spots, while she was not allowed to visit her grandfather who lives in Edmonton, like her.
Melanie Behm (L) is shown with her grandfather Jim Wood (R) in an undated family photo. Behm is furious that Alberta MLAs and government staff members flouted the spirit of Alberta’s COVID-19 restrictions to travel to sunny vacation spots, while she was not allowed to visit her grandfather who lives in Edmonton, like her.

On Christmas Eve, Lindsey Witzel’s grandfather, Warren Allford, passed away from COVID-19.

For Witzel, not being able to rush to Winnipeg from her Calgary home to hold her beloved 88-year-old Papa’s hand as he lay dying was, as she said during an interview, the “hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”

Not only could she not be by his side, but because of Alberta government COVID-19 restrictions, she couldn’t comfort her grandma, Gloria, who lost her husband of 67 years. What’s more, government restrictions also make it illegal for her to drive the five minutes down Deerfoot Trail from her McKenzie Towne home to Auburn Bay to comfort her parents, particularly her father Guy Allford on the passing of his beloved dad.

In other words, Witzel did what most Albertans are doing — that is, she’s following the legally binding restrictions put in place by Premier Jason Kenney’s UCP government.

Witzel was one of five Albertans who told their heartwrenching stories of loss and adherence to government COVID regulations during a scheduled NDP news conference Monday. It was held just minutes after Grande Prairie MLA Tracy Allard resigned from her cabinet post as municipal affairs minister because of extreme turbulence that has erupted in Alberta at the news she travelled to Hawaii for Christmas with her family — something she tried to justify as a 17-year family tradition she was loathe to break.

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See Also:

(1) Public outrage over vacationing politicians is real. Leaders ignore that at their peril

(2) A quarter of Canadians don’t want the COVID-19 vaccine. We asked the experts why

(3) Why do we keep hearing about deaths but not about treatments?

Jack’s Note: Pandering (and ignorant) politicians, listening to so called ‘experts’, have made their beds. Now they have to sleep in them. China should be proud of their efforts. They have hamstrung their enemies and never had to fire a shot.

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