Here's why...

 ...Alberta has the highest per capita cases of COVID in North America.  North America!  Here's one reason why:

 Last weekend, thousands of idiots attended a rodeo in Bowden, where they milled and thronged, cheek-by-jowel, maskless.  How dumb is that?!  But the fact is, Calgary has no identity, other than Stampede.  It is made up of completely separate and wholly self-sufficient quadrants; there is no viable centre of the city.  Where we live in Citadel, for instance, we can get everything we need or want within a mile radius -- including supermarkets, liquor stores, hair salons, restaurants, malls, box stores, etc.  You name it, it's right here.  So with no Stampede last year and a virtual one this, locals are desperate for a rodeo.  That is why they went to the small one in Bowden -- that and the fact that Calgarians generally listen to no one.

Another reason Albertans are simply ignoring the harranging of medical officers is because our chief "medical" officer of "health", Deena Hinshaw, is impossible to take seriously.  I call her Dr. Drone-a-thon because that's all she does.  She stands there, expressionless and drones out a bunch of meaningless numbers, without giving any context whatsoever.  What do the numbers mean?  We never find out anything -- expect they are very high.....drone....drone...drone.  And please G-d, do something about that hair!

And as for Tam, well, you know what I think of her.  Ontario is also in a mess and columnists are starting to ask the same questions I have been scratching my head about:  Why do people like Williams in Ontario and every counterpart across the country keep their jobs!?  Tam was asked to "clarify" the contradictions between the national health committee of "experts", who are advising people to pass on astrazeneca and J&J and wait for pfizer or moderna, while at the same time, out of the other sides of  their mouths, they are saying to just get whichever you can, after you do a self-assessment.

Hello!  We're not able to do that!  That's your job!  Tam's response and "clarification"?  One the one hand this and on the other that.....blah.....blah.....blah.

No wonder people are simply throwing up their hands in exasperation.  Heads must roll, but won't.