They're trying to suck and blow at the same time

So there I was last night, Celina on my lap, happily researching film photography when the emergency alert siren nearly exploded my ears. Poor Celina. She was down in the basement in one giant furry spasm. I'm pretty sure she thought the end had come. 

Which it had, 'The Best Alberta Summer Ever', May 26 to Sept 15. RIP. Except it wasn't for the people that needlessly died or needed hospitalization, and all the families involved. 

Now the UCP government is trying to suck and blow, trying to not enact a vaccine passport of any kind, while forcing businesses to either require patrons to produce it or shut down their business. I've spent years trying to write instructions and procedures, and like many things it's harder than it looks. The UCP mandates make mud look like a fine example of clarity and structure, and bacterial slime look sanitary. 

I was reading it from the perspective of how it might affect our community association events and reached no firm conclusions after reading it twice. I think our outdoor events are good to go, but not so sure about indoor events. Some of the events are religious services. I'll be reading this again later today, and the exec committee will probably have to discuss it to make sure we are all on the same page. Maybe we'll have the discussion in our back patio, distanced of course, but with several bottles of wine.

This was all so avoidable. 

I blame the people who chose to not get the vaccine because they did their internet research, and chose badly. My solution to the hospital crisis is to triage based on vaccination status. All the regular stuff that hospitals and care facilities do now, they keep doing. If there's safely room for an unvaccinated person presenting with COVID symptoms, then fine. (Slightly later note, accommodate those with an actual medical reason for not being vaccinated.) If not, send them home. I'd far rather the people who have been waiting for a surgery date get it, than indulge human stupidity. 

Yeah, that's cruel, but that's been the case for most of human history. Choose badly, be in the wrong place at the wrong time, sass the wrong person, just generally be stupid, and the consequence is death.

Because that's what this 4th wave is, a testament to human stupidity. People not getting a vaccine, but then trusting the medical science to cure them. People getting all worked up about a mask, saying it's ok for a business to have a sign that says 'no shirt, no shoes, no service' because that's business freedom of choice, but not ok to have a sign requiring a mask because that's tyranny. Politicians pandering to the stupid element of their base, making the convenient, politically driven, decision. Politicians rewarding bad behaviour with the Kenney Pennies. Does he really believe that if someone won't get vaccinated because of some principle (Freedom! Tyranny! Pig-headedness! Religious principle! Whatever!) that they'll do so for $100?

Meanwhile the rest of us, the ones that got vaccinated, wore the mask, made the adjustments to our lives often at great inconvenience, especially with the poor example of the UCP taking a Christmas getaway vacation, now have to put up with the consequences of the 4th wave. We have to figure out from the UCP bafflegab if the yoga studio will be open next week, if we can go for as swim, if our workplace will declare our presence to be essential, if that life-altering medical procedure will happen, if a long planned and paid for event can go forward, and on and on. All so unnecessary.

I'm so mad, and so tired, I could just ________________. (You fill in the blank in the comments.)

Sorry, no of the day feature today. I have no photo that will cheer you up after this.