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Cases in Edmonton seem to have slightly stabilized since more than doubling in June, and the outbreak at Mis has and will be costly, but Alberta as a whole (in particular Calgary) is clearly as bad as it's been in over two months. The last three days have been the worst since May 9th and it's trending up.
So we certainly know what age demographic is absolutely failing Covid-19 right now, not that its any surprise at all.
Over the past two weeks, 780 new cases have been identified in Alberta, with 57 per cent of those being under the age of 40
Fairly startling as younger people are generally not hit as hard with the Virus and one would expect younger people to fight it off. Yet these are confirmed tests and with the infallible making up the overwhelming bulk of the current caseload in Alberta. You know, all those people seen out there recreating like its normal times.
Those numbers are going to do nothing but increase.
Calgary and Edmonton party districts are swinging. Whyte Ave for weeks has been like no pandemic is even happening. Complete clusterf*** non awareness. People more concerned what their appies and drinks are tasting like in all the restos and patios than any pandemic.
Behaviorally its a freefall.
Calgary AND Banff are strongly considering making masks mandatory. Edmonton nowhere near making that call. But as 100 new cases a day pile up and this setting up some further exponential increase we could be going back into lockdowns.
The basic problem is that when you ease restrictions you see the 'just don't give a f***'' behaviors ratchet up.
its going to be a gongshow here when the playoffs start. Absolute gongshow.
Alberta is currently the worst per capita province in Canada for new cases. We've dropped the ball. Worse, these are not isolated, in old age homes, in meat packing plants. These are largely community exposure cases and probably a lot of these dolts still out walking the streets because that's how they caught it and don't care.
So many of the new cases are simply untracked. No idea where they are coming from. Could be your favorite mall, resto, gym, etc. They don't even know.
Alberta now running at 240 trackers instead of 400 and they are having trouble keeping up.
Yeah, if things keep trending this way another lockdown is coming.