Western Canada: Provincial reopening plans offer different visions of life returning to normal

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This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.In some ways, the reopening plans released by several provincial governments are similar. Most of them tie public-health measures to vaccination rates with an eye to ensure that life returns to normal only when a sizable portion of the population has protective immunity. But significant differences mean life will look a lot different this summer depending on where you live.

says most rules will be lifted at that stage, but it does suggest some limits on gathering sizes and mask requirements could remain. Those details are still being worked out.outside of long-term care facilities when it reaches that point. Two weeks after 70 per cent of eligible people – that is, anyone 12 and older – have at least one vaccine shot, there will effectively be no rules. Masking, physical distancing, limits on gatherings would all be gone.

The event usually draws more than 100,000 people a day to the Stampede grounds in Calgary, and Premier Jason Kenney says those people shouldn’t have any qualms about gathering like they did before the pandemic. The Stampede is expected to be by far the largest event in Canada since the pandemic prompted public-health restrictions more than a year ago.

In fact, the criticism has largely focused on the province’s specific benchmarks, the decision not to include targets for second doses, and emerging evidence that“I guess I would put the onus on people with that critique: If 70-per-cent population protection is not adequate, then what is?” he said on Thursday.

 

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