Albertans dying from COVID-19 at more than three times the average Canadian rate

[Spazito]

Alberta has one-tenth of Canada's total population, almost half of active COVID-19 cases

Albertans are dying from COVID-19 at more than three times the average Canadian rate as the province is hammered by the pandemic's devastating fourth wave.

It has now been 12 days since the provincial government first introduced a slew of new public health measures and eight days since many went into effect, including the restrictions exemption program — Alberta's version of a vaccine passport system.

Yet the number of new cases continues to grow, and COVID-19 patients — most of them unvaccinated — continue to fill Alberta hospitals. In the seven-day stretch starting Sept. 20, 62 Albertans have died due to the disease.

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Alberta also continues to lead the country in active cases, accounting for almost half the active cases in Canada, despite only having about one-tenth of the nation's total population. The province had 21,307 active cases as of Monday.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/albertans-dying-from-covid-19-at-more-than-three-times-the-average-canadian-rate-1.6192135

As was warned, things are getting worse here.

[pandr32]

1. Alberta is overwhelmingly conservative

Alberta is where the bulk of the oil sands extraction is--where the Koch industries leases enormous oil sands areas, too.

[Spazito]

3. Yes, Alberta has been known as Texas North...

for good reason. We now have a Premier that is making things worse because he is catering to his far right base which has the majority of the rabid anti-vaxxers. His poll numbers are plummeting but no election has to be called until 2023 so lots can happen by then to either totally tank his government or conservative Albertans will ignore his and his government's deadly incompetence.

[applegrove]

2. Alberta has the DeSantis of Canada as Premier: Kenney

[Spazito]

4. Yep, twins in their deadly incompetence for sure.

[applegrove]

7. Kenney admitted he was aiming for Covid ending up as endemic. Instead

his lax ishness gave us pandemic again. It was intentional to not vanquish the disease. If you want to vanquish something you don't pull back the second it looks like you are winning. They definitely want this to last as an endemic. De Santis and Abbot are the same. They are not fools. They are playing god.

[MontanaMama]

5. I know very little about Canadian politics but

I have several customers who are scattered around Alberta all of whom take any opportunity to tell me how much they dislike Justin Trudeau and they believe the pandemic has been blown out of proportion and they deeply resent lock downs and masks. In comparison, I have a handful of customers in BC and two in SK who don't seem to have the same feelings or at least they haven't felt the need to spout off on the phone when they call my shop to place an order. This is just my experience and certainly no statement of what is true for the entirety of Canada. If I even see "Alberta" on my caller ID I have to steel myself and be ready to pivot off their rants that I know are coming.

[Spazito]

6. Yep, that definitely sounds like a lot of Albertans...

Alberta has been THE conservative center of Canada for decades when it comes to it's federal politics. It shocked us all when Alberta voted in an NDP (New Democratic Party, a party on the left) provincial government in 2015. Me and my family were thrilled but knew it would only last 4 years as it was an outlier. The Cons were elected in 2019 but they are a disaster and are below the NDP in popularity in recent polls and in fundraising so hope lives, lol.

If your customer base from Alberta is in either the northern region or in the southern rural region it is not at all surprising to see their responses to the federal government and to Covid. Those areas, just like the ruby red regions of the US, are responsible for the majority of the unvaxxed and are the ones in the ICU and also dying.