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Personal sacrifice, not official surveillance.
There has been some interest in Canada in a “Christmas truce,” similar to the one upcoming in the U.K.
In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Thursday that between Dec. 23 and Dec. 27 some of the restrictions on indoor social gatherings will be eased to permit more people to congregate for Christmas dinners in private homes.
But COVID doesn’t observe high holidays. Just look at the American experience over their Thanksgiving late last month.
Before American Thanksgiving, 2,000 or so deaths a day. Since Thanksgiving that number has grown to 3,000 or more.
The coronavirus doesn’t care whether we think it’s unfair to suspend holiday traditions.
But if you doubt it’s personal action that will make the difference, if you think only state-ordered lockdowns will do the trick, consider this: While Alberta has been the country’s hotspot for the past few weeks, the province is already entering its second week of decreasing daily infections – and its new, more stringent lockdown measures haven’t even taken full effect.
This is the second week in which Alberta’s seven-day rolling infection total has declined. Deaths and hospitalizations continue to rise, but infections (which occur about two weeks in advance of deaths and hospital admissions) seem to be beginning to go down.
It wasn’t until last weekend that Alberta ended in-person dining and gym workouts, severely limited retail stores and closed everything from nail and hair salons to museums, movie theatres, casinos, bowling alleys, water parks and “colonic irrigation services.” (I’ll bet the latter were a big source of infections.)
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