So I have been thinking about angry dad @BrianPallister yesterday scolding the people of Manitoba and getting angry about #Covid19 spread in the province. I want to respond in a thread

The "government can't protect you from covid" narrative is something that needs to countered right away. It is a variation of the personal responsibility for your health narrative that conservatives stick with no matter how much evidence contradicts it and

In fact this idea is false, systems need to be put in place to assist everyone in preventing covid19, and there are systems that encourages it, we have had more of the latter than the former

You see it is kind of ironic @BrianPallister and @roussin_brent took a scolding approach, like parents who are absent or set up kids to fail and then come out and say "why aren't you better"

Sure people have done stupid things, that is part of being human, but the MB government has had months to get better prepared for the fall. And I would suggest they have failed, and done so because of ideology

We had the summer low numbers to expand track and trace capabilities, support changes in long term care to protect the vulnerable, have a paid covid sick leave ready, paid bars to stay closed, mandated masks sooner and set better examples regarding masks (personal responsibility)

We could have paid to help restaurants stay takeout only. Hired reserve staffing in the healthcare system. But that doesn't fit the governments ideology, because they loath "big government" and "handouts". Except they fail to see that you can't have an economy and covid.

Conservative ideology is cheap early to maximize private profit, then have the taxpayers bail things out when they fail. Cut systems and reduce expenditures to make a great economy, but really they just set up larger bills for the future. Prevention is cheaper than rebuilding

Those bills are not always in money either, in many ways people pay the price with their lives, the people getting Covid19 are paying some of those costs and now daily some people are paying the ultimate price

Tldr it is rich of the Premier to come out and scold Manitobans, because I don't think he has done much to help us, at least not things that are beyond revenue-neutral or value for money... but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise