Calgary mayor throws shade at Trump, over COVID-19 vaccine claims

We totally have the best mayor in Calgary, period.

As reported by CTV News:

CALGARY -- Alberta is on track to record 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day by the end of the week and that could potentially lead to lockdowns, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi warned Tuesday.

Speaking ahead of the regular update by Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical officer of health, Nenshi said numbers released Tuesday are "extremely troubling."

"We are on track as a province to having 1,000 new cases a day as soon as the end of this week. So this is extraordinarily troubling," he said.

"We're not just above where we were in the spring, we are far above where we were in the spring. And a vaccine apparently didn't come before the U.S. election today so it is months away.

"So we need to re-double our efforts to avoid a lockdown. We need to re-double our efforts to look after one another and to flatten this curve again, and it's not hard. The three things we need to do to flatten the curve have not changed."

[Shade highlighted in big, bold letters, by me.] 

I love this man.

I mean, it sucks to be going through yet another wave of this fucking pandemic, in a Canadian province whose Conservative government is all about keeping businesses open, "barring some absolute catastrophe," and never mind that a literal plague would normally count as a catastrophe. 

FYI, Alberta is Canada's Trump country; my downstairs neighbour was literally beaking off yesterday about how the pandemic was all fake news and lies, after weeks of case counts climbing in both Calgary and Edmonton... although, thankfully, our daily deaths number is staying in the single digit range, for now.

But it sucks a little bit less to have a civic leader, even in this Conservative stronghold, who not only tells it like it is, but who isn't afraid to throw a little well-deserved shade in The Donald's direction while he's at it.

I'm beginning to wonder what it says about me, though, that the actual COVID-19 news in that CTV piece wasn't what caught my eye; no, it was the throwaway line about The Donald's vaccine lies that was my big takeaway. 

2020, man... fuck this whole year.