Lifting all covid restrictions in Alberta passed without any acknowledgement from you at all, it didn't fit with the whole apocalyptic scenario. But, you breezed on past it and found a new bone to gnaw...
Alright. I just looked it up. I took this week off from work (hence posting at 14:00) and my family is on vacation (I'll join them later tonight as I had some stuff around the house to do.) In short, I have not been in the car, have not had the news on, and have not really talked on the phone much for the last week.
I had heard that "Alberta is lifting restrictions" last week- but I think I was probably in the car and I turned the radio off thinking it was just the last of masking or something else. But I'm impressed. No more legal quarantine after August 15th, the end of contact tracing and no more testing after the 30th (aside from doctors and hospitals.) Wow.
I'll admit that seems a little radical. And I see that there have been people crying about killing grandma and demanding restrictions again while they protest. Teachers protesting "for the children." I feel like I know a couple of liberals who I should call this afternoon to see if their head has exploded...
I'm a little conflicted. Not needing to quarantine even if you know you have it seems a little odd. But I suppose it goes to personal responsibility- and I would think after the last year almost everybody would do that on their own. No testing seems a little odd as well. Now if I have a cold, I'm going to think it's covid. I guess I can still go to a doctors office if I want to know- but no easy drive through is going to make people like myself less likely to actually get tested if I get a sniffle. (To be fair, I have not been tested in the last year and a half. I have a pretty good immune system.)
I actually have to think it over. Fully open with completely back to normal and no data on what is occurring? Interesting strategy. I wonder how long until other provinces demand that flights to and from Alberta (specifically) be cancelled as we are the great carriers of the plague?
I'm gong to guess that this is presented as Alberta being very reckless in your press? I may have to go see if I can find the reasons or something first hand. The articles that I read were a journalist telling me what is happening rather than Hinshaw. Interesting.