With news on COVID-19 happening rapidly, we’ve created this page to bring you our latest stories and information on the outbreak in and around Calgary. What’s happening now Central Alberta rodeos planned for this weekend to protest COVID-19 restrictions have been shut down by a court injunction sought by AHS. A group of doctors are calling on the province to cancel this year’s Calgary Stampede. Alberta reported 244 cases and seven new deaths on.
But are those risks manageable and worth taking?
Yes and double yes.
In some respects, trying to keep Albertans under lock-and-key much longer would have been like trying to gesture at an avalanche to stop tumbling.
Good luck with that.
Albertans were already half-ignoring the restrictions only obeying the ones that made sense to them.
Not getting together outside, for instance, didn’t make much sense, so lots of people were already having family barbecues or gathering around campfires with friends.
Wednesday’s announcement that most restrictions will be gone by the end of June (so long as we keep getting vaccinated), was merely government following a trend being set by citizens themselves.
CALGARY Alberta’s strategy to phase out public health restrictions by Stampede is drawing criticism from doctors. I’m very disappointed with how aggressive this strategy announced today is being. I think that it’s putting us at risk of a spike in cases and risking our summer to be totally honest, said Dr. Shazma Mithani, an emergency room doctor in Edmonton. The province is aiming to lift all public health restrictions by early July. If we’re looking at having a full reopening as early as July to mid-July, that’s scary to think about because we are going to see case numbers go up again, especially if there are pockets of the province that aren’t as vaccinated as the big cities for example, said Mithani.