While we are seeing a lot of COVID-19 cases now in Saskatchewan, our hospitalizations, ICU admissions and COVID-19 related deaths remain significantly lower than other provinces that have strict lockdown policies in effect.
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— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) January 18, 2022
As I said a week or so ago, Saskatchewan has been the worst place in Canada to weather this pandemic — with the exception of all the other provinces.
Added in the comments: The Sask government carpet bombed the province with rapid tests. That at least gives people a fighting chance of not passing along the virus to vulnerable family and friends when they think they have symptoms, or just want to be extra careful. It may be making that demographic difference, but it’s still early.

I think different demographics are the main factor. I don’t think politicians should be taking credit for something much beyond their control.
The Sask government carpet bombed the province with rapid tests. That at least gives people a fighting chance of not passing along the virus to vulnerable family and friends when they think they have symptoms, or just want to be extra careful. It may be making that demographic difference, but it’s still early. So who really knows?
One incorrect assumption many people are making is that everyone within an arbitrary political boundary is equally likely to get Chinese Lung AIDS, but that’s not how things work. It has to spread via close aerosol contact, and a potential patient has to have several such contacts to have a measurable chance of contracting the virus.
That means that there’s a confounding factor: the number of dense population centers within that arbitrary political boundary, because that’s where you’re going to see the most person-to-person transmission. If SK enacted the exact same policies as every other province, I’d still expect it to show lower per capita cases and hospitalizations just because there are so few dense population centers.
I don’t think there’s a way to account for that without resorting to bull**** computer models, but the rule today is the same as it was during the Middle Ages: when the plague comes around, get out of the cities.
Well, virtually no one here rides mass transit, so we have that going for us.
Don’t see many on bus route 4&5 near my place . Sucks to be a bus driver.
Wonder what rider stats are 2020-2021…
I see lots of full buses in north Mississauga. All those folks commiting to and from their warehouse jobs. Nary a non-masked individual among them.
Some report I read (The Epoch Times Canada [newsletter@theepochtimes.com]) stated that some rapid tests can produce up to 40% false positives. And what’s the point of testing asymtomatic folks (non-spreaders)?
The virus itself is beyond their control.
That’s what I think. It’s crazy to think you can stop a virus from spreading. I do not think anything that has been done – closures, masks, tests, contact tracing — has had any kind of significant impact. The best you can do is encourage healthy lifestyles to boost immunity, encourage early treatment when symptoms appear (banning Ivermectin has been very short sighted, bordeting on malicious,) and try to protect elderly and vulnerable as best you can, while leaving others to carry on with their lives.
I just feel terrible that the provinces that voted liberal and put Turdo in power are getting the sickest and dying … too bad, so sad.
“We’ve been tyrants, but not as bad as those other terrible tyrants. You should be thankful for that!”
Fixed it for ya!
Nasty cold going around, let’s wreck the economy and suspend civil liberties.
And the sheeple clapped and begged for more control.
Precisely.
Nice to see his gonads descending out of his abdomen again. Give the man some grudging respect and maybe, when the Twitter mob attacks, he might have the courage to ignore them this time. Not great odds, but slightly greater than zero.
Exactly. When they do the right thing, say so.
I sent this to his office today…
Premier Scott Moe,
Thank you for your recent press conference, where you voiced the idea that we citizens of Saskatchewan are best served by taking responsibility for our own health, rather than looking to government mandates. I have only seen a brief synopsis, but it is obvious that our media were not favourable to your words. Still, you stuck to your message, as a true conservative should, regardless of media reaction.
Thank you. You spoke for me and thousands like me.
Here is a link with some snippets from the press conference. It includes his email, should you wish to encourage him on this path…
https://strongandfreecanada.org/vlog/a-major-victory-saskatchewan-refuses-further-violations-of-our-rights/
first timer,
Excellent letter!
Well, Kate, I just may still move to Maple Creek, where they leave you alone and the weather ain’t so bad, for Sask.
I quite liked Maple Creek the couple of times I was there.
Didn’t hurt that the Star Café was still operational at that time. Mmmm, mmm, good!
Been there!
Not me.. he’s unforgivable and a giant, fat hypocrite too. Forced me to vaccinate. He and his entire party can flush themselves down the nearest toilet. He’ll delete this thread in less than two weeks of the CBC being mean to him and then enact more restrictions. In the meantime he’s trying to think of a good way to force people to take boosters.
I have heard that name Ryan Miele somewhere before. Doesn’t he sell vacuum cleaners door-to-door?
Does that mean that whatever he’s peddling actually sucks?
Ryan Mieli is bitchmade
It’s a start. A pretty weak and very delayed start, but a start nonetheless.
Let’s hope the honesty and bravery virus ravages him … and his neighbours.
Scott Moe came from a rural background, I truly believe he didn’t want to go with as many restrictions as was implemented. He was pushed from SHA and his urban MLAs and left no other choice. I’m unaware of any other premier stating that we should tap down the rhetoric towards the unvaccinated as he did.
Watched the Israeli immunologist on here and he is bang on when politics and health intersect it becomes political. Run for politics and win, you become a politician, imagine that! Let him have his wins and tomorrow put the rate of HIV in that graph. I’d keep Moe any day as opposed to Meile.
Now just punt Jason Kenny and insert Brian Jean next door then we have something going on in the west.
Scottie Moe was starting to go full-blown authoritarian this fall. In this link he expresses that he is becoming impatient with the unvaccinated, and he was going to make life uncomfortable for those people. I think someone may have shown him a glimpse of the electoral abyss he was about to step over, and he reconsidered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6OZH3fvl3U
He’s the same as the rest.. if I really cared, I’d dig up his “our patience is at and end” video. They all have them.
B.C. to allow gyms to reopen Jan. 20
https://globalnews.ca/news/8517872/bc-covid-update-tuesday-restrictions/
“Henry said but if people can keep their masks on when exercising, that is best.”
A “doctor” actually said this…
BC “allowed” NOTHING, many of the gyms had finally had enough and were opening ANYWAY ignoring Bonnie Goebbels, that is precisely what all businesses should do. As you point out vaccine passes, masks and physical seperation are required-I doubt many will follow that edict. Bonnies credibility is shot except among the Karens.
I noticed that at the grocery store I go to in Fort St. John. Most people dutifully wear masks, but some, like me, don’t. Nobody seems to care any more.
My CrossFit gym in BC is supposed to be closed but stayed open by basically pretending we’re a sport and competing against each other, even though the regs specifically say CrossFit should be closed.
Classes are full and no one has ever brought it up.
Yup.
The gyms whined loudly and Bonnie bullshit caved.
Everyone follow suit and make her collapse, the fake piece of shill that she is.
That showed a chink in the armour.
Oh, and if she is a “doctor,” then I am a rocket scientist, and I admit to suck at math.
Defund Bonnie Bullshit.
Please stop referring to these bureaucrats as Dr. Whatever they once were they are bureaucrats now, when is the last time BH treated a patient? It is like when they call Dr. Faux Chi Mihn a scientist. He is a bureaucratic grant pimp, nothing more. If I took a heart attack and there was him and an army medic on offer, I’d take the Medic.
BINGO….give that man a cigar!
Hell, an expensive, real Cuban cigar, earned right there.
Hell, if it were between Bonnie and some big animal vet, I would choose the wise vet and his ivermectin over Bonnie Bullshit’s inanity. Doctor my ass. The fuck outta here.
Henry is an idiot. She needs to go. Exercising with masks on is one of the dumbest things I have heard. Actually, my understanding is that asymptomatic transmission is not that significant. Sick people in enclosed spaces are where most transmissions happen. People in the gyms are not sick.
What would happen if everyone just stopped the nonsense? That we all stopped wearing masks? Stopped social distancing? Stopped being vaccinated? Opened everything up. What could the government do about it? Nothing. We would over run their resources instead of being constantly shafted by them. Then again this is compliant Canada isn’t it? We could never pull this off.
Trudy would invoke the War Measures Act. Soldiers. With guns. On our streets.
There is no War Measures Act
BC gyms did just that and won today. There’s not a single restriction that makes any sense whatsoever at this point and none of them ever worked. Omicron is not possible to curb at all.
Yay for the SK vaxxed. But those without vax passes have been effectively “locked down” since October 1st with the sliding goal post date of February 28 (already extended twice).
5th shot anyone?
“A fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was insufficient to prevent infection with the omicron variant of Covid-19, according to preliminary data from a trial in Israel released Monday.”
Maybe it will work THIS time! LOL
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-17/israel-trial-suggests-4th-dose-not-warding-off-omicron-infection
Good Job Premier Moe! There are many Paths to good Health and Lock Downs is not one of them!
I made the mistake of reading some of the twitter thread following Moe’s tweet. I lost a few braincells from the exercise, but there was maybe 5% of the replies that agreed with him, the rest were begging to follow ON and QC’s lead, seeing as it’s working out so well for them. I realize that twitter is a leftist echo chamber and all but I hope Moe has the guts to stick with it.
Yeah, that’s a function of media pumping lies into their heads. The last provinces you should follow in regard to this is Quebec and Ontario. They have by a pretty wide margin, the highest hospitalisation and ICU rate per million in the country.
The provinces have done a shitty job of getting their clean information out to the public. The vast majority of people are headline readers and don’t have the will or capacity to take a look at the data themselves.
If you check the data on hospitalisation and ICU rate regarding Covid for the six larger provinces, you find that by calculating a linear regression trend line (best fit) through the data the higher the vaccination rate of the province, the higher the hospitalisation and ICU rate. At 73% of the population vaxed, the hospitalisation rate is just over 250 per million and at 82%, it is just under 300 per million. ICU shows at 73% vax rate, the ICU use is 21.5 per million while at a 82% vax rate the ICU use is 32.5 per million.
Of course, Quebec has, BY FAR, the worst stats but for some reason the media and Trudeau seem to believe they are the model to follow.
Poutine is to blame for the Quebec numbers
Negative efficacy is being seen in most places, starting with delta and even more so with omicron.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-17/israel-trial-suggests-4th-dose-not-warding-off-omicron-infection
Just two weeks to flatten Saskatchewan.
It was already flat.
Yeppers. Had an uncle who watched his dog run away. For three days…
Saskatchewan got hit harder by Delta so there’s probably broader population immunity.
Wild Rose has just come up with a call to ban vaccine passports in Alberta.
Good on them, finally an opposition party is speaking out
Pay attention Maverick
And most people in my circle are so utterly terrified of Omicron that some are actually taking leave from work. NDP in a landslide in 2023, and then we can really get started with proper lockdowns. Which will still be going on then.
I thought I finally got it yesterday but it turned out to be nothing. I actually want omicron ASAP.
Vitamin C and Listerine can help knock it out.
I’m genuinely not afraid and have never been but what I see around me every day is unbelievable. After all, they saw it on TV, right?
We need some leaders who would defend freedom like a Churchill and who do more than play political ‘cover their asses’ games.
Hell, I’d settle for a Chamberlin.
What we have are Quislings.
Moe and his career politician crew still let the media walk all over them and control the narrative and policies.
They need to stand up and act like they know how to lead instead of gutlessly letting the media and the bureaucracy control them.
For instance:
Did Moe really catch covid by removing his mask for a couple of minutes like the media claimed?
Why don’t they castigate the media for spreading misinformation like that? It’s a bit of irresponsible media fear mongering.
Why were doctors fired for questioning their policies?
Why is there a mask mandate when there is virtually zero evidence that masks work?
Why is there not one single government mention of any of the myriad of ways in which people can strengthen their immune systems?
Vitamin D, C, Zinc, lose weight, etc?
Why aren’t antibody test accepted as proof of natural immunity?
Why can’t I get an antibody test in Saskatchewan?
Why isn’t natural immunity from covid infection accepted as equal to vaxxed?
Why is there never any official acknowledgment of the importance of or the role of co-morbidities?
Why isn’t there any acknowledgement that the vaccines are obsolete?
How did the Sask health dashboard get filled with misinformation time after time?
Why are children being vaccinated?
Half the public are terrified of covid because Moe and company let the media and bureaucracy feed the public exaggerated garbage and misinformation.
That’s not leadership.
Families are torn apart because these gutless ‘leaders’ refuse to confront and address this panic porn bullshit.
Old people are dying of loneliness and kids are being scarred and damaged.
We’re at a crossroads of history and these cowardly fools can’t see it. Being slightly less pathetic than the rest isn’t really honorable.
You nailed it Stan. Moe f***ed up from the very beginning and continues to do so. Anyone who thinks Moe is a good leader should give their head a big shake.
He destroyed Saskatchewan’s economy, he persecutes the unvaxxed, he lets 5 year olds take the kill shot, he mandates the stupid mask wearing costume, he persecutes churches, he censors Doctors and alternative treatments, he does not recognize natural immunity or previous Covid infections, he uses the faulty RT-PCR test that can not differentiate between the flu and Covid and that productes many, many false positive tests, he mandates Covid passports. Tell me one, just one good thing he has done in response to the Covid flu.
He is just like all the other buffoons, just a different color.
Stan (and LoneRanger), great comments.
The politicians have betrayed Saskatchewan, just not to the extent as other provinces. They’re very fortunate people are keeping themselves out of the hospital by taking vitamins and keeping a good supply of ivermectin on hand.
And the tests have been proven to be useless.
Heres the point the Sask Party govt ceded Covid 19 powers to Health
bureaucrats.
https://regina.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sask-government-transfers-covid-19-management-to-provincial-emergency-operations-centre-1.5614880
Time to take those powers back Premier Moe. When you do whisper in Shahabs ear “Uttar Pradesh”
Heres some required reading for you Scott Moe
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/dr-robert-malone-posts-irrefutable-proof-ivermectin-uttar-pradesh-india-success-story/