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Originally Posted by ehrgeiz
Strongly opposed to this. It's an absolute overreach of authority by a Province let alone a Muni which will certainly create an enforcement quagmire which will erupt in confrontation and conflict of varying severity. All for dubious gain or benefit in the big picture unless your goal is to divide and pit people against each other.
I wish we could set fear aside and come to terms with the reality that this thing was always gonna buck. We slowed it down initially to prepare, but now it feels like we're just drawing out the inevitable pain to come this fall and winter.
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Agreed - if anyone should be directing this it should be our expert - Dr Hinshaw.
As per Alberta Govt site (updated 28 Jul 20), Edmonton Zone has 278 active cases of which 72 are in Edmonton's Good Samaritan Southgate Care Centre. Edmonton has had a relatively stable positivity rate (1.08 as at 28 Jul 20).
Interestingly in Holland today...
The Cabinet of the Netherlands will not make wearing masks in public mandatory across the country as a way of fighting the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but it will introduce new measures designed to influence public behavior, said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark at a press conference on Wednesday. During the meeting she did not offer any specifics about the Cabinet's plans. Locally, different rules could be implemented experimentally by the country's 25 different regional security councils.
Jaap van Dissel, head of public health agency RIVM, said there was no reason to introduce a face mask obligation nationally. "The evidence to do that is simply missing," he said at the press event. He repeated his earlier opinion that face masks have an "extraordinarily small effect" in stopping the spread of the infection.