C19 + Alberta
Nov. 24th, 2020 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoMost of highly-populated areas of the province - including the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (where I am) - are entering three weeks of "Enhanced public health measures" in response to the current situation**. Not quite what I would describe as a lockdown, but more restrictive than many people would like.
Needless to say, I am completely unsurprised, considering how many Albertans have been careless and irresponsible during this pandemic.
I'm going to be fine, since I can work remotely and I only go out in public once a week to get groceries, but I'm sure there's going to be an awful lot of whining, and I just would rather not have to hear it. Ugh.
Restrictions should have happened much earlier - if not province-wide, then at our municipal level. The RMWB does not have the resources to handle a lot of cases. The Northern Lights Health Centre is good for many things, but it is severely limited, and even in many ordinary situations you need to go to Edmonton for treatment. Hell, to use an unrelated example, you can't even donate blood in Fort McMurray; the nearest centre for that is Edmonton. We will absolutely not be able to handle it if the situation becomes severe. (More severe than it currently is, I mean.) We are remote, and this could become a very big problem if people don't smarten up.
I'm very unimpressed with my fellow Albertans. It should not have come to this.
Needless to say, I am completely unsurprised, considering how many Albertans have been careless and irresponsible during this pandemic.
I'm going to be fine, since I can work remotely and I only go out in public once a week to get groceries, but I'm sure there's going to be an awful lot of whining, and I just would rather not have to hear it. Ugh.
Restrictions should have happened much earlier - if not province-wide, then at our municipal level. The RMWB does not have the resources to handle a lot of cases. The Northern Lights Health Centre is good for many things, but it is severely limited, and even in many ordinary situations you need to go to Edmonton for treatment. Hell, to use an unrelated example, you can't even donate blood in Fort McMurray; the nearest centre for that is Edmonton. We will absolutely not be able to handle it if the situation becomes severe. (More severe than it currently is, I mean.) We are remote, and this could become a very big problem if people don't smarten up.
I'm very unimpressed with my fellow Albertans. It should not have come to this.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.