shootingstar Posted February 7, 2021 Share #1 Posted February 7, 2021 As someone who lives in a province with high covid rates for past few months, it's pretty appalling the govn't hid covid numbers for oil and gas industry employees in province. Over 1,000 covid cases alone. These people live in isolated work camps in northern part of province. They are often flown into work camps for a few wks. Then go back home (and maybe some infected others) for a few wks. Then back to work... Alberta's oilsands take steps to keep COVID-19 in check as total cases creep past 1,000 | CBC News Before this weekend's news, there were no public numbers released for this industry area. Pretty appalling. And for sure top political leader was trying to protect the industry..until he couldn't anymore. The Chief Medical Officer in province probably spends significant effort to stickhandle her professional medical duty to advise/report vs...keeping her job. (And the vaccination rollout in Canada is slower than U.S. Until we can produce our own vaccine, we have to rely on European shipments). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted February 7, 2021 Share #2 Posted February 7, 2021 Canada's far from the only country to misdirect about their numbers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted February 7, 2021 Share #3 Posted February 7, 2021 1 hour ago, shootingstar said: As someone who lives in a province with high covid rates for past few months, it's pretty appalling the govn't hid covid numbers for oil and gas industry employees in province. Over 1,000 covid cases alone. These people live in isolated work camps in northern part of province. They are often flown into work camps for a few wks. Then go back home (and maybe some infected others) for a few wks. Then back to work... Alberta's oilsands take steps to keep COVID-19 in check as total cases creep past 1,000 | CBC News Before this weekend's news, there were no public numbers released for this industry area. Pretty appalling. And for sure top political leader was trying to protect the industry..until he couldn't anymore. The Chief Medical Officer in province probably spends significant effort to stickhandle her professional medical duty to advise/report vs...keeping her job. (And the vaccination rollout in Canada is slower than U.S. Until we can produce our own vaccine, we have to rely on European shipments). WTH are you reading? In check and coverup are 2 very different things. It’s like you have been creating click bait threads here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted February 7, 2021 21 minutes ago, Kzoo said: WTH are you reading? In check and coverup are 2 very different things. It’s like you have been creating click bait threads here. The media didn't report these total numbers until this weekend. No reason for the oil and gas industry numbers to be protected/kept under wraps by govn't. Pretty simple. In contrast, the public were informed of 100+ local employees who were covid infected at a Cargill huge meat processing plant just on edge of our city. (Now, another 2nd round of infections again right now.) That reporting was back in late spring 2020. No reason not to report total number for another important industry in our province. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 8, 2021 Share #5 Posted February 8, 2021 I don't see a cover-up. Every location listed is a pretty isolated and self-contained camp. To fly in and out still requires a negative Covid test. Other than going home on rotation, the workers have little to do outside the camps. Cargill on the other hand produces meat for millions with distribution across Canada and the US. The meats are distributed to the public. That is where the reporting of an outbreak is important. The government has done plenty to destroy the energy sector. Why would they now "protect" it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share #6 Posted February 8, 2021 6 hours ago, Wilbur said: I don't see a cover-up. Every location listed is a pretty isolated and self-contained camp. To fly in and out still requires a negative Covid test. Other than going home on rotation, the workers have little to do outside the camps. Cargill on the other hand produces meat for millions with distribution across Canada and the US. The meats are distributed to the public. That is where the reporting of an outbreak is important. The government has done plenty to destroy the energy sector. Why would they now "protect" it? No, Wilbur you and I will continue to probably disagree. Alot of abandoned oil wells that should be cleaned up by the oil firms who abandoned them....and so on. Emissions of sour gas, list goes on. As for Kenney's 1.5 billion $ of taxpayers' money on Keystone...as a hunch, no guarantee. Wasted..the reuse of pipeline parts will be remote...if re-used bargain prices for something else. Cargill was reported in May 2020 for 100+ covid workers..in the national and international news for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 8, 2021 Share #7 Posted February 8, 2021 10 minutes ago, shootingstar said: probably disagree. Correct. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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