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News Advertiser
JULY 15, 2020
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COVID-19 Weekly Regional Update Michelle Pinon News Advertiser As of July 14, Alberta Health was reporting total cases of 8,912(86 new cases). There are 701 active cases and 8,048 recovered cases. A total of 55 people are in hospital with 13 of those in intensive care. Altogether there have been 163 deaths. A total of 545,902 tests have been completed. There were marginal increases in the number of cases in Vegreville/Minburn County, (with two new cases), in Lamont County, (with two new cases), and in Beaver County, (with two new cases). In Vegreville/Minburn County there
were 3 cases, 1 active cases, 2 recovered cases and no deaths. In Two Hills County there were 0 cases, 0 active cases, 0 recovered cases and no deaths. In Lamont County there were 4 cases, 4 active cases, 0 recovered cases, 0 deaths. In Beaver County there were 6 cases, 1 active cases, 5 recovered cases, and 0 deaths. In Tofield there were 4 cases, 0 active cases, 4 recovered cases, and 0 deaths. In Viking there were 2 cases, 1 active cases, 1 recovered case, and 0 deaths. The distribution of non-surgical face masks has been expanded to include 700 partner restaurants, including
those without drive thru service, adding more than 100 new locations and expanding the availability of masks to Albertans. No purchase is necessary to pick up masks in restaurants, either at the counter or through drive-thrus. A larger number of long-term care and supportive living, seniors facilities,
community groups, social service organizations, libraries, court houses and places of worship will be distributing masks to their residents, clients and members. Municipalities without easy access to a partner restaurant location are again being supplied with masks to distribute to their residents, as are First Nations communities and Metis Settlements. To date, the Province has supplied 20 million non-surgical face masks to Albertans. The use of face masks continues to be non-mandatory, but is recommended when physical distancing of two metres is not possible.
Dear Editor, Our news media slants systemic racism in a way that needs to be reviewed. Society is being made to believe that systemic racism is organizational, e.g. the police, the military, corporate, the judicial system, etc. In fact, systemic racism begins in the home. I was fourteen when I told my mother that a black boy was assigned as my lab partner in my chemistry class. She turned to me and said, “You know black people have smaller brains than white people!” The year was 1960. It was an era where you did not talk back or contradict your parents without serious consequences. So, I didn’t dare tell her that he was a lot smarter than me and helped me with all our lab assignments so I would get a decent grade. I knew my mother was wrong then and I know she was wrong now. That is systemic racism. It is taught in the home. It is ingrained in the subconscious. It can only be flushed out with education and constructive (not destructive) change. Nancy Mereska
- To your point, it is taught in our homes, in our schools, in media and popular culture. I would go further and say that racism is human nature. Racism is not a trait of white people. Anyone who has travelled, will know that there are good and bad in every country and every culture and there is also racism in the same places. -AB
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