Alberta’s Minister of Health: An enormous, unsightly heifer and brazen peddler of pseudoscience
Meet Sarah Hoffman, former Alberta Minister of Health — in any sane time and place, the unlikeliest of sources for sound Public Health™ counsel.
Rather than focusing on the gibberish she’s mouthing about the importance of getting vaccinated (we’ll get to that shortly), I’d like to direct your attention to how preposterously and implausibly fat the Minister of Health — the person responsible for educating the public about issues of health — is.
“How can we make sure that more people get vaccinated so they don’t become worse, worse, worse? Like, we’re looking at 20% of the population being vaccinated for the flu. That is possibly record low numbers. When people aren’t vaccinated, they’re more likely to have severe consequences from the flu and end up in emergency rooms.
I’ll say to all Albertans: Get vaccinated for the flu! You can call your pharmacist. You can call your family doctor. I got in within minutes of saying I wanted the flu shot, and that gave me some more immunity and the ability to help offer more protection to the people I was around over the holiday season.”