More perspective (can this be me?) heh
Alberta numbers very misunderstood because people are looking specifically at just count numbers instead of relative rates. When Manitoba or Sask are getting 450 cases in a day or 500 cases in a day, that is WORSE than Alberta due to population disparity. For instance Alberta has 4X the population of Sask. So them seeing 450 cases on Friday was WORSE than ANYTHING we've seen here on a case 100K basis. Next, Sask set a record high doing 4500 tests that day making there positives around 10% and of course not even a quarter of the testing we did on our highest day. Factor in the population disparity, and the testing disparity and Saskatchewan is doing possibly worse.
Manitoba is saying to both, hold my beer, with their testing and exploding numbers its worse than either other prairie province. people think its Alberta doing the worst in the Prairies. Just a hell of a lot more people live here.
This being why people should not get caught up in "count" numbers and especially in doing comparisons.
Factor in that BOTH major Cities in Alberta have 5-6X the population of the respective Sask Cities. Bigger Cities usually tend to get much bigger Covid outbreaks. I mean Red Deer is a much closer comparable to either Sask City (sorry, not trying to be glib with that, its just a population fact. I mean Red Deer has 120 active cases now, but for much of the pandemic had very few.
Yeah, if we had really small cities, only, we'd have a shitload less cases. To be exact 38K less cases through the pandemic. The rest of the province has had around 8K. With Alberta having several smaller cities that would be among the highest pop Centers in Sask. Fact is you could entirely subtract Edmonton and CAlgary populations from Alberta total and we STILL have way more population than Saskatchewan.
Also this;
Coronavirus: 387 new cases, 10 deaths in Manitoba Saturday | CTV News
Manitoba, with only 30% of the pop of Alberta come in with 10 deaths in one day. our high is 20.
Their positive rate on tests is 14%. people are up in arms here in Alberta about our highest being 8%.
All kinds of comparison to ponder.