The march is on to normalize COVID-19 as an oldster thing. It was inevitable
The UCP isn’t exactly trying to underplay the COVID-19 threat. No government in Canada has worked harder to contain the disease, and no province has been as successful.
“The average age of death from COVID in Alberta is 83, and I’ll remind the house that the average life expectancy in the province is 82,” he said. “For most Albertans, the risk of death from other pathogens, accidents and traffic fatalities is actually higher than it is for COVID.” He added that while there will be more outbreaks, hospitalizations and deaths, “I challenge our public health experts and our officials to ensure that our policy response is predicated on protecting the most vulnerable in the strongest and most discrete ways possible.”
Watching all this, and then reading the transcripts, you get a sense of a society soon back to something very close to pre-COVID normal, apart from measures in care centres and for older people in general. Notley made strong arguments for improving protocols in care centres, meat-packing plants and other places prone to infection.
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