By popular demand, and because their numbers are very relevant to the overall picture, please welcome Alberta to the party. As you can see, they now get their own 4 columns and graph.
Alberta had that awful last two weeks of April… then things settled down for a while, until mid-July… when they took a turn for the worse. They’ve since started to slow down… sort of… their numbers jump around a lot, but at least they seem to be trending downward. Those graphs can be a bit misleading, because the scales are all different. If you were to overlay B.C. and Alberta, pretty much all of B.C. fits “under” the Alberta activity. Their down-trending case counts are similar to B.C. numbers these days… so I guess we’ll see where things go.
From a “trend” point of view, the B.C. graph really looks awful in comparison to the others, but it’s worth noting the Y-axis. We still have some wiggle room… our numbers are good if you compare things, simply apples-to-apples. Saturday’s 100 new cases was the worst day we’ve ever had… but our cases and deaths per 1M of population continue to be way ahead of other provinces.
There will be more to say about this in the near future; we're using up all the "goodwill" we earned leading up to this… and while it's not too late, everyone needs to take some responsibility… for how we got here, and… more importantly… where we go from here.
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Canada – 765??? holy crap – what happened??
The hot weather up there and in California is not going to help the situation either. Especially down here heard the beaches were packed and no social distancing. Not good!!!
Yesterday there was a hell of a lot of traffic going to Jericho Beach. It didn’t look like there was going to be much social distancing going on.
Well 2020!! So far global pandemic, quarantine, social distancing, the economy, mask/no mask, no gatherings, testing, vaccines, black lives matter, schools, US elections, murder bees, red onions . . . we need a break! At first I wondered if a global pandemic would bring the world closer together. Now it seems to be more divided than ever. Be it masks, schools or social gatherings the division seems to be 50/50 on lots of things. Not a good way to proceed if people would like their old lives back at least to some sort of normal. So, no big parties, wear your mask, wash your hands. Let’s bend the global curve.
I believe the numbers are still the fallout from inside party’s/nightclubs etc. Seems outside gatherings are not affecting people as much. But still….. could improve there as well!