Premier made a hollow plea
By Letter to the Editor on April 3, 2021.
Editor: On Wednesday, March 31, the Premier made a plea to Albertans to respect public health guidelines in the face of rising COVID cases. Too bad such a plea is hollow: if the UCP government meant any of its urgings to change behaviour in response to rising COVID case counts, it would have taken action against the Grace Life Church and its minister, James Coates, who was released from jail recently for violating public health restrictions. After being released from jail, he led his congregation in a service last Sunday that violated restrictions issued by AHS for public gatherings.
The lack of will in enforcing public health measures against Coates and his church make a mockery of AHS guidelines and any efforts to prevent the spread of COVID.
Shame on both the UCP government and AHS. AHS has proven to be a toothless tiger.
David Kaminski
Lethbridge
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“Pleeeeese be good or I’ll not enforce the health order!”
Jason is running on a slippery-slope David! “Dammed if he does and dammed if he doesn’t.”
…and damn him for letting Coates and his ilk off the hook. Some religious gatherings of multiple denominations are a key component in the pandemic’s continuing march against humanity. To hell with the rest of society. It’s all about “freedom of religion” and the right to worship no matter consequences to the rest of society.
And if it was a Muslim church that broke the law instead of a Christian church would you be just as heated about it JPN?…. I think not!
Did you not read the item in today’s Herald?
https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/national-news/2021/04/03/caring-for-others-mosque-synagogue-advise-alberta-church-to-follow-covid19-rules/
You asked the same question a couple of years ago and I replied then as I do now: Read my actual comment where I stated clearly but not clearly enough for you obviously, “ some religious gatherings of multiple denominations are a key component….” What part of that sentence do you not understand? Last time I looked “multiple denominations” means those of different faiths or perhaps you would beg to differ.
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What ?
a law without enforcement is not much of a law. in town, we have stupidly high numbers of infections, possibly a fair bit less than actual because people are not getting tested. and, what do we still have to contend with? mask deniers that would rather rally against masking laws as an assault on freedom, rather than the sundry other more worthy affronts to freedom introduced over the last couple generations. how is it we still have to deal with idiots choosing to go maskless indoors around others, and the nose flashers, whose actions are snot funny.
Good one, biff.
What is the difference between broccoli and snot?
Freedom Faces don’t eat broccoli.
cruciferous humour at easter
So, we invest in a pipeline to nowhere, with no fallback plan. We play politics with the Supreme Court and lose, with no fallback plan. We give away the headwaters to coal polluters, with no fallback plan. We waive restrictions to activities during the mighty third wave of the pandemic, with no fallback plan.
Maybe the War Room should initiate an inquiry into un-Albertan activities?
simpsonesque…like the escalator to nowhere. i suppose the war room is the proverbial monorail