Rodeo clowns

[Oliver88]

Can we assume the 40-50,000 people that attended the Texas Rangers home opener in Arlington, Texas are all dead now?

[biglentil]

Long live the Rodeo! People getting some fresh air and sunshine the horror!

[Blaithin]

The true Rural experience.

Less about thwarting rules, more about going out and getting drunk.

[BreadWinner]

I guess this is the problem when they use the same rules for downtown calgary as rural nowhere. Few kids have managed sneak in a hockey scrimmage at the end of the season and its almost tore up the community. Now we can’t even have a ball game for the kids. Last summer they played ball all summer and we never had a case resulting from this recklessness. This covid problem is a inside problem in my opinion.

[biglentil]

The true Rural experience.

Less about thwarting rules, more about going out and getting drunk.

Ever wonder why they called it 'social distancing' instead of 'physical distancing'?

[Blaithin]

To be fair, this 178th wave, or whatever number we’re on, is hitting rural Alberta harder than any other one has so far. Not saying that Bowden is going to be a spreading event, or that baseball would be or any other outdoor event, just that in previous waves we could say “Why do we need restrictions, it’s the cities that are bad”

Well now the cities are targeted hot spots with stricter restrictions and I know more people, coworkers and neighbours that have had Covid in the last month than the entire rest of the pandemic combined. Not surprisingly, as it’s landing closer to home people are taking it more seriously. More masks are visible in the community, more people asking about precautions, letting others know they’ve been a close contact and distancing, etc. In the face of the entire Bowden frenzie, I would say Rural AB is finally pulling its shorts up and starting to act less like a cool teenager that is an exception to the rule and more like someone without a point to prove. Yeah we’d all like to go out and socialize, yeah we would never in a thousand years stick to a curfew, yeah we play fast and loose with the gathering rule, but hey, if we’re feeling sick we won’t go in to UFA and sure, we’ll wear a mask when we go to town.

[Blaithin]

Ever wonder why they called it 'social distancing' instead of 'physical distancing'?

Most people would probably spell it wrong.

Fisical? Fizzicle? Phisacle?

[ajl]

The biggest clown in AB these days is Jason Kenney. Yes I did vote for him, but not again. If we wanted to live in a communist dictatorship, we had the option of choosing Notely. News flash Jason: your voting base is at the rodeo. Outdoor rodeo=zero risk and does a lot of good after enduring lockdown.

[Guest]

Most people would probably spell it wrong.

Fisical? Fizzicle? Phisacle?

or sochal

[Blaithin]

SoCal?

Soeshal.