Letter: Common sense should win out over politics

By Letter to the Editor on August 12, 2021.

Dear Editor,

I agree with Kathy Bayer’s Aug. 10 letter to the editor regarding a continued need for virus testing, tracing and mandatory isolation. While I don’t favor any particular political party, I do favor common sense over politics.

It doesn’t make any sense to me to stop testing, monitoring, tracing, isolating and reporting during a pandemic especially when the virus mutations are essentially unknown.

An illustration of where AHS daily reporting was helpful, was on Aug. 110 when we were informed Medicine Hat and district had 252 active COVID-19 cases. This was a heads up to me that we are clearly living in a high risk area, compared to Edmonton, with 568 cases with more than one million in population.

Let’s not stop testing, isolating, tracking and reporting part way through this pandemic. We can’t just ignore the virus – particularly its newest mutations – hoping it will go away. While I entirely agree we must face the dominating virus heads on for the sake of the economy, our sanity plus tiredness relating to restrictions, let’s do so with all possible knowledge about the status of the newest virus mutation.

And let’s not lift all general provincial restrictions and protocols province wide, in places of reported higher risk areas, like Medicine Hat and Cypress County.

Gordon Briosi

Medicine Hat

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