It was announced on June 18 that Alberta reached over 70 per cent of people over 12 years old with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, meaning we can now move on to Stage 3 of Premier Jason Kenney’s Open for Summer plan. As of July 1, Albertans can expect to see all restrictions lifted, including the ban on indoor social gatherings.
While I think we’re all happy to see a bit of normalcy come back with this new stage, I think our premier has forgotten some of our earlier mistakes regarding COVID-19.
Alberta experienced two major spikes in COVID-19 cases once in December, and once towards the end of April and beginning of May. These two spikes were both a result of the province relaxing too quickly. We need to remember that patience is the key to all success we can’t expect to see the results we want right away just because things are going well for us. Getting too ahead of ourselves might lead us to going back to where we originally started. Alberta began in March
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CALGARY Alberta has yet to release its plan on second doses for residents as restrictions ease partially beginning Tuesday, when stage one commences in the province s summer reopening plan. That didn t prevent one Calgary small business owner from expressing optimism about June. “It’s our busiest time of the year,” said Jereme Bokitch, owner of Butter Beauty Salon, Hedkandi Salon and Johnny’s Barber’s + Shop. Bokitch said preparing for the June 1 reopening (for appointments only) was not as stressful as preparing after previous shutdowns. “I think this one felt a little bit different, we knew it (the last shutdown) was going to be three, four weeks,” he said.
Variant cases in the country continue to be a point of concern, even though numbers are going down but that doens't mena their spread is limited.
For more than a year we’ve heard leaders talk about “flattening” or “bending” the curve of COVID-19.
And before a year of living in a global pandemic, plus talking to epidemiologists, ER doctors, developmental biologists and more, it even made sense. “We have to live with the virus.”
At that point, when everyone from the World Health Organization to our Facebook friends lacked understanding, it sounded reasonable to assume we could avoid a spike and then keep cases at a low plateau.
But we’ve already curbed two waves only to learn “plateaus” aren’t a thing, and now we’ve been mired in a roller-coaster pandemic for 15 months, each peak worse than the last. And here we are again, beyond the 2,000 cases a day predicted by many, including developmental biologist Gosia Gasperowicz from the University of Calgary, who in February pleaded with Albertans and the UCP to reverse course on reopening so soon.
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