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I have three direct family members currently isolating after testing positive for COVID. It is frustrating that after two years of us sacrificing and being careful, we end up with COVID in our family at this late stage of the pandemic. All of this is happening because my daughter’s boss decided to go to work anyway despite testing positive for COVID. After my daughter was unknowingly exposed for two and half days, she was finally informed that she was working side by side with someone infected. Despite leaving work and immediately isolating, she tested positive two days later. In the meantime she had already unknowingly infected her sibling and her grandfather.

When I look at Alberta’s COVID stats, we currently have over 12,000 people infected with the virus per 100,000 citizens. That means 12% of Albertans currently have COVID. That number does not include my three family members and everyone else who is quietly battling COVID at home. Nor does that number include the people who know they have COVID and are actively infecting everyone around them because they refuse to isolate themselves. I suspect the reported cases of COVID in this province only represents a fraction of the actual current cases.

With infection numbers like that and the mask mandate rescinded, there is little chance of avoiding COVID.