ALBERTA, Canada, February 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — While Alberta Conservative premier Jason Kenney is adamant that “cold, hard numbers” of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization justify his province’s state-of-emergency restrictions, he has also acknowledged that the “Great Reset” cannot be written off as a “conspiracy theory,” stating clearly that such an agenda will not be influencing the province’s policies.
Kenney, leader of the province’s United Conservative Party, recently urged Albertans who maintain that COVID-19 is a hoax to look at the province’s health data to see that COVID-related hospitalizations and deaths are happening. He criticized those who hold that “any kind of public health restrictions to limit viral spread during the pandemic is somehow part of a global conspiracy.”
Alberta declared a State of Public Health Emergency to “reduce cases and protect the health care system” on November 24. So far, 1,684 Albertans out of a population of 4.4 million have succumbed to the virus, which amounts to 0.04 percent (four hundredths of one percent) of the province’s population, according to Alberta.ca. The vast majority (85 percent) of those who have died are over the age of 70 (1,424). The average age for those who have died from COVID is 82
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