They won't – because it's this provincial government, and they have form – but what if an Alberta-wide masking mandate was put back in place because of the forest fire smoke that has blanketed Western Canada over the last few weeks?
This isn't some invisible airborne virus that many disputed for the simple fact it couldn't be seen – it's hanging right there in the backyard, under the nighttime streetlights and on the horizon. Smoke particles that have caused severe air quality advisories are visible. The dust and burn-matter settles on vehicles and porch railings... even on the property of people who believe in the NWO and that millions of people working in the global mainstream media industry are somehow all complicit in the end-game of that New World Order.
The smoke particles aren't some make-believe, scientific conspiracy easily lapped up because there's no forensic proof. Air quality advisories and "stay inside" warnings have already been put in place by environment and health agencies, so why would a mask mandate be out of the question? Or at least a policy mandating their use when air quality levels reach un-healthy levels?
Making the idea easier for some who are more comfortable creating their own narrative is that a possible mask mandate for smoke pollution would share an angle with the arguments pushed by the COVID-19 nay-sayers. We don't know what the long-term effects of this will be.
Some people didn't trust pharmaceutical companies, world-wide science (and some would say, common sense) in their fight against pandemic mandates. They said there was no proof of what the vaccines would do in later years, to later generations. Some said vaccines had microchips mixed in with an unknown buffet of chemicals and proteins. They could make people magnetic, some said, or increase autism rates.
Well, that same argument can be applied to the effects of the smoke particles that are being ingested. This has been a prolonged exposure to something we know very little about. In recent years, the amount of forest fire smoke in the atmosphere has been occurring more frequently and at record-high levels. And this isn't just campfire smoke that brings a mild sore throat the next morning after a night under the stars with friends.
This smoke isn't from carefully cut and corded birch or tamarack, taken from the forest by a local business person with a chainsaw and log-splitter who then loads the back of a pickup truck with the collected bundles and sells them at the gas station parking lot. This is that... and everything else in the path of uncontrollable fires – including pickup trucks, chainsaws and log-splitters, gas stations, along with houses, oil leases, animals, asphalt, power lines, plastic beach balls, toy scooters... and people.
All of that toxicity is what residents across Alberta have actually been seeing – actually been breathing for the last few weeks. That's a fact.
It seems impossible to dispute — but of course some will continue to find their own smoke-screen hypothesis to explain the literal smoke-screen in front of their eyes – perhaps this is from toxic airplane "con-trails," or maybe the NHL is doubling down on its anti-Canada stance by setting forest fires in the oilsands of a province with NHL teams named "Flames" and "Oilers." And of course, it could just be Trudeau.
The smoke is a proven health concern, but the burning question is will the provincial government do anything more to protect their residents, or did that notion go up in smoke with the COVID mandates.