EDMONTON – Alberta’s opposition says Prime Minister Danielle Smith will have to rescind a recommendation invitation from Dr. Paul Alexander, a prominent critic of conventional COVID-19 science who has called the pandemic vaccine a “biological weapon” in interviews and online publications.
NDP fitness critic David Shepherd said Smith also wants to reveal the names of the medical team she says now offers public fitness advice.
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“Paul Alexander is a discredited conspiracy theorist, who brazenly encouraged adults and young people to contract COVID-19, promoted the herd immunity theory (and) called the COVID-19 vaccine a biological weapon,” Shepherd said in an interview Tuesday.
“I ask you to cancel this invitation. If not, let’s listen to how he says it transparently. Because if you don’t share the percentage of views, you have to be very transparent about it with Albertans. “
The reaction to the pandemic came to soften a candidate debate last Thursday for the Brooks-Medicine Hat midterm, where Smith won a seat in the legislature Tuesday night.
She told the debate, “I have a number of doctors advising me and I know they’ve already contacted Dr. Paul Alexander, so I’m interested in hearing what he has to say. “
Alexander is a former professor at McMaster University and an adviser to former U. S. President Donald Trump.
He is a vocal critic of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the usefulness of fitness restrictions while exposing herd immunity to control the pandemic.
In an online article on Monday, speaking about the exaggerated death threat of the pandemic’s central attack, Alexander wrote: “This is the bioweapon of injecting the COVID gene, stupid!Not the virus!”
Alexander responded to a request for comment.
When Smith’s office was asked over the weekend about who was advising Smith and why she wanted to hear from Alexander, she declined to directly answer those questions and also said, contrary to Smith’s claim that she already had a team of doctors advising her, that a team of counselors is still being assembled.
“The prime minister is consulting with Health Minister Jason Copping about creating a panel of qualified and varied medical experts to advise the government on a variety of fitness issues,” Smith spokeswoman Becca Polak said Saturday.
“This fitness consultant organization will be announced before the end of the year once the verification and variety procedure is completed. “
When asked to respond to Shepherd’s comments Tuesday, Smith’s workplace signaled its Saturday.
Smith promised that major changes in the public’s fitness in Alberta will be monitored.
He announced that Dr. Deena Hinshaw, medical director of health, would soon step down and be replaced by a group of advisors who would report to Smith.
He also reiterated that it is based on documents such as the Great Barrington Declaration, the recommendation of Dr. Ari Joffe, a pediatric care and infectious disease specialist from Edmonton, and the experience of jurisdictions such as Sweden, Florida and South Dakota.
Barrington’s is a 2020 open letter from an organization of fitness experts that encourages vulnerable people to protect themselves, but allows COVID-19 processes to go unchecked to create herd immunity and reduce the long-term destructive side effects of isolation, such as intellectual conditioning issues.
Hinshaw called it scientifically flawed and logistically impractical. His perspectives echoed other academics and the World Health Organization.
Joffe criticized the COVID-19 lockdown technique and rejected blanket restrictions for a disease that favors the frail and the elderly, saying the long-term consequences of isolation on intellectual fitness are worse.
Joffe did not respond to a request for comment.
Sweden, South Dakota, and Florida have adopted laissez-faire approaches to COVID-19 restrictions, allowing those businesses to function by comparison, but at the expense of higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Smith, in his role as a podcast reporter last year, singled out Dr. Roger Hodkinson and the center’s former surgeon, Dr. Dennis Modry, who harshly criticized COVID-19 fitness restrictions as a burden and the cause of poorer intellectual conditioning and social outcomes.
As prime minister, Smith promised to explore the option of making reparations, such as pardons and refunds, for those fined for COVID-19 violations or unable to work due to vaccination orders.
She promised that fitness restrictions and vaccination mandates will have no role in any long-term reaction to COVID-19 in Alberta.
He said his government would make amendments to the Human Rights Act this fall to prohibit discrimination against his resolve not to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Smith called unvaccinated COVID the most discriminated organization he’s ever seen.
He promised legislative changes, if necessary, to save a return to mask mandates in schools.
The Canadian Press report first published on November 8, 2022.
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