People should stay home, quit blaming government

DEAR EDITOR:

In this pandemic year, the very people who are complaining that the federal government “should have done more,” are sending their RVs over the border and heading south to the country with the most COVID-related deaths on the planet.

They tell us it is “for their health,” safe, they believe in the secure arms of Canada’s health-care system.

In March of 2020, there were numerous television interviews with people in airports, leaving for out-ofcountry destinations, even though the advice from Health Canada was an emphatic “don’t.”

As of April 2020, the Liberal government had brought over 20,000 Canadian travellers back to Canada and housed them, quarantining, to the tune of over $40 million.

As of Sept. 21, 2020, they had loaned $18 million to Canadians stranded abroad to cover emergency expenses such as a flight home, but only a handful have repaid it .

In spite of the more-than-14,000 deaths from this virus, people still seem to need a government directive or a person bearing an AR15, to tell them to wear a mask and then they complain that it’s the government that didn’t step up to the plate.

And yes, as late as November 2020, the Alberta government announced a new program with a huge incentive to “fly somewhere hot this winter” and to quarantine for as few as two days after a trip abroad. This, despite it having been proven that testing negative with a PCR test does not mean you don’t have COVID19, are not contagious, and will not infect others . Of course , this must be “this Prime Minister’s fault” with the appropriate dog-doo inflection, the Prime Minister that Jason Kenney, the opportunistic , pseudo-Albertan described as having “the depth of a finger bowl.” Elaine Lawrence

Kelowna