The NDP’s Health Critic says a stronger enforcement of the public health restrictions is what’s need to slow the rise of COVID-19 cases in the Province.
David Shepherd joined us on the Trending 55 Hot Seat says the actions of Premier Kenney and some MLA’s in the UCP caucus have played a role in people not following the rules.
“He has set the landscape for the kind of thing we saw this past weekend. These are Jason Kenney’s people, they’ve listened to his words and the words of his MLA’s and now they’re making decisions that are going to affect the rest of us. Jason Kenney made his bed and he’s forcing the rest of Alberta to lie in it.”
Alberta over the weekend saw the highest number of daily new cases of COVID among all the Provinces and Territories in Canada and all the States in the U-S.
Shepherd says this along with the increasing number of hospitalizations is putting more of an added strain on the health care system in province.
“If these cases keep going the way they are, those beds are all going to fill up. We’re not even going to have enough staff to barely cover this. All of a sudden these frontline healthcare workers who have been under so much stress and pressure over this past year already, have to start making life and death decisions about who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t.”
We had Shepherd on the Hot Seat to talk about the rising case numbers, the decision to close the legislature and other topics and you can listen to the full discussion below.
– Kyle Moore, Trending 55 Newsroom
