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A UCP member of the Alberta legislature is lamenting the impact of current public health rules on personal freedoms in a new opinion article, vowing to “get our old normal back” in 2021.
The article by Banff-Kananaskis MLA Miranda Rosin, titled “Freedom in a Floundering World,” was published on the website of High Country News on Wednesday. Rosin appears to question the public health impacts of current restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 disease, while also mourning the notion that people have willingly forfeited their personal freedoms to the government.
“Over the past ten months we have seen nearly every democratic society in the Western world gamble away their longstanding values of freedom and self-determination in surrender to fear and uncertainty,” she wrote. “I am proud to say that Alberta has not, but I do worry the wills of society are changing.
“What is scariest about the current state of our world is not that people have begrudgingly surrendered their personal freedoms to the Government, but that they have begged and pleaded for the Government to take them away even when it did not want to do so.
“People have been societally conditioned over the past year to view freedom as selfishness.”
On Thursday, Premier Jason Kenney announced that current mandatory public health restrictions, which include bans on social gatherings and closures of restaurants and personal service businesses, would be extended to at least Jan. 21.
Kenney said the province has “made progress,” but remains “far from getting out of this” amid the second wave of the pandemic, as Alberta still has more active cases of COVID-19 than most other provinces.
The rate of deaths over the past two weeks is the highest in Canada. More than 1,215 Albertans have died due to COVID-19 infection throughout the pandemic.
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