You can play dumb all you want but the widespread outrage that international flights were still arriving -- esp. from covid hot spots -- after lockdown measures were put in place was very real.
widespread outrage that international flights were still arriving
You have no back up for that statement, but even if it's true Alberta's premier wasn't on board. It was part of his "The Economy must be protected! Don't listen to the Chicken Littles!" approach.
Here's a quote of his from January 2021: " a Harvard University study and a U.S Department of Defence study have both concluded that the chance of transmission on an airplane with all the protocols being taken – mask-wearing, sanitation, HEPA filters and everything else — that the chance of transmission is statistically insignificant.”
Right Norway also eased restrictions during the summer of 2020 because of economic concerns. Do you actually believe a society should stop functioning for years because of a virus with a 99.99% survival rate? it's insane. Poverty makes people more vulnerable to not just the virus but other poverty related diseases, not to mention mental health problems. Where I am lockdowns resulted in considerably increased numbers of drug overdoses and deaths from these have been higher than covid deaths throughout the entire pandemic, I believe.
Hardly...
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/the-road-to-canadas-covid-19-outbreak-pt-2-timeline-of-federal-government-failure-at-border-to-slow-the-virus-2
Hmmm. We've gone from "many Albertans" to you and one journalist's 18 month old opinion piece.
You can play dumb all you want but the widespread outrage that international flights were still arriving -- esp. from covid hot spots -- after lockdown measures were put in place was very real.
You have no back up for that statement, but even if it's true Alberta's premier wasn't on board. It was part of his "The Economy must be protected! Don't listen to the Chicken Littles!" approach.
Here's a quote of his from January 2021: " a Harvard University study and a U.S Department of Defence study have both concluded that the chance of transmission on an airplane with all the protocols being taken – mask-wearing, sanitation, HEPA filters and everything else — that the chance of transmission is statistically insignificant.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7560395/kenney-alberta-air-travel-covid-pandemic/
Right Norway also eased restrictions during the summer of 2020 because of economic concerns. Do you actually believe a society should stop functioning for years because of a virus with a 99.99% survival rate? it's insane. Poverty makes people more vulnerable to not just the virus but other poverty related diseases, not to mention mental health problems. Where I am lockdowns resulted in considerably increased numbers of drug overdoses and deaths from these have been higher than covid deaths throughout the entire pandemic, I believe.