Kenney seems to think the end of vaccine passports will be some huge win. Why? 79% of us are vaccinated. Many people I know still don’t feel confident about going to restaurants. As Hinshaw has repeated, “no matter where you go at least one person there will have Covid.”
Many Albertans feel an extra sense of security and confidence going to a restaurant because they know everyone around them is vaccinated. Could they still get Omicron? Possibly. But the chance and severity is reduced.
There are countless restaurant workers who have been sick this past month because they’re working with unmasked patrons all day. Dozens of restaurants have had to temporarily close due to illness. This risk will now be heightened.
Hinshaw repeats that we all need to “determine our own level of risk”. Restaurants are already struggling to get enough customers in the door because they’re not confident about their own level of risk - why cut that back even more to appease the 10% who aren’t vaccinated?
When the story came out about that Red Deer restaurant faking checking QR codes the response from Albertans was total international embarrassment over the story, and “I’ll never eat there”. Because QR code’s are not a big deal for the majority of us.
The vast majority of the hospitality industry has worked their asses off to keep doors open and people employed and these boneheaded moves to appease antivaxxers will not help them. This is insanity.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get it out of my system. People like the folks at @CRWC8 have worked so hard to keep the wheels on the bus and people safely employed that the results of lifting QR codes (possibly as early as next week) is going to be devastating to the industry.
Ugh damn you autocorrect. *codes
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