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A group of Alberta pediatricians have penned a letter to Premier Jason Kenney asking him to take action to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
The executive members of the Alberta Medical Association’s Section of Pediatrics are asking for strong, mandatory measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and newer, more-transmissible variants of concern.
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The new variants, particularly the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the U.K., can cause more severe disease and higher mortality rates in younger populations, according to the doctors.
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The economic cost of forcing nearly 3.3 million Canadians into unemployment by May 2020 is enormous and has yet to be tallied in full. While individuals and companies were able to receive some form of help from their governments, many businesses will not be able to rebound from their losses and many who do will not long survive.
The corrupting effect of subsidy is also being felt outside of the economic sphere, with many now pushing for the lockdown to continue, either because they live in fear of being infected by the virus or because the subsidies have made it more desirable to remain home than to work. As Félix Leclerc wrote in the 1950s: “The best way to kill a man is to pay him to do nothing.”