There's something not right about the number of "deaths". Alberta has a similar population to Norway, similar case counts, and similar vaccination rate. Norway is opening up and has almost no deaths, Alberta has 20+ deaths per day and supposedly is in crisis. The only difference I can think of is big city demographics in Alberta and hospital unions/workers being anti-conservative, the extent that they're willing to go on strike during a pandemic. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/strike-inevitable-for-alberta-nurses-likely-two-months-away-1.5565332
"Norway acted quickly to stem the spread of the virus domestically, and limit infection from abroad while increasing health service capacity. The policy emphasis quickly shifted to concerns about economic impacts, the need to buttress both employers and employees and support specific industries such as domestic air travel. Most recently, concerns about the social cost of the implementation of the lock down procedures and the need to mitigate the consequences has shaped policies relating to the easing of lock down procedures. This attention to the social aspects, and the ability to fund these, we believe, is a key differentiator of the Nor- wegian response. As the Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, reflected, “The government has chosen to prioritise children, then working life, and finally other activities.”
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2211883720300769?token=22B6DBF18AA097FE959F670D264736084FCFF88E42C003947116AFD045D851343CC055EDCF538D2582E2ABC326020053&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20211008141957
A province doesn't have the authority to do somethings like restrict international travel. That's on Trudeau. I think many Albertans would have agreed back in March 2020 that borders should have been closed. But that's racist, remember?
There's something not right about the number of "deaths". Alberta has a similar population to Norway, similar case counts, and similar vaccination rate. Norway is opening up and has almost no deaths, Alberta has 20+ deaths per day and supposedly is in crisis. The only difference I can think of is big city demographics in Alberta and hospital unions/workers being anti-conservative, the extent that they're willing to go on strike during a pandemic. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/strike-inevitable-for-alberta-nurses-likely-two-months-away-1.5565332
Norway shut down early and hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Norway#Prevention_measures_and_response
Jason Kenney did the opposite and offered the nurses a 3% wage cut.
This is from August 2020:
Unlike Alberta.
A province doesn't have the authority to do somethings like restrict international travel. That's on Trudeau. I think many Albertans would have agreed back in March 2020 that borders should have been closed. But that's racist, remember?