Here’s my dilemma. And I think I speak for every goddam person in the Canadian media right now..I’m on mat leave, I have nothing to lose.

We are NOT making numbers up. We aren’t on some govt plan to fuck you all out of whatever you think it is.

Honestly, fuck your high horse!
We have family. We have loved ones. We are considered an essential service and for some reason nobody has told us to stay home again if we can. We did back in March. As many of my coworkers worked from home as physically possible.
They worked from home while teaching their children math and history and sex ex, while working overtime - without any support or extra compensation - they did their job. They used their own paid for internet.
They didn’t get paid any overtime for scrums online that happened outside of their new “office home hours”...
They reported you the information doled out to them from the UCP & Liberal governments while their their families sat in the wings waiting for supper or playtime.. as they typed up the stories based on the exact same audio they had access to as did you.
What did some of you do? You called them liars. You said the government had some weird mandate to only tell you things that took away your choices and freedoms. Actually, not just some of you.. somehow an abnormally large number of you with an access to the internet that you
really don’t deserve started this. It’s an inappropriate movement that undermines what me and countless numbers of my Canadian media coworkers fight to do as our fucking job every goddam day. You are monsters!Horrible keyboard warriors that, with the access of Google, have stolen
our degrees and awards and love for the jobs we rolled into with bright eyes years ago.
Again, fuck you. You are NOT the authority on this. But neither are we. But - BUTTTTT - one of us is getting paid to do this. And it’s NOT you. So stop. Stop stealing my late nights...
stop stealing my weekends. Stop stealing my family time. Stop stealing my timeline and wasting the time of people with an education on this matter more than you.

Am I saying I’m more credible? No.
Am I saying you are? Absofuckinglutely not. You aren’t! And you know you aren’t!
So stop wasting the time of people’s lives who maybe are just coming into work everyday to report the numbers/facts/information and trying not to blow their brains out before they go home again each day.
Cuz honestly, that’s what I want to do and I’m just on mat leave. I’m looking out for my friends, family and coworkers... just like I think you think you are too. #yql #COVIDIOTS #COVIDAlert #abhealth #lethbridge #AbCOVID19
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