Inconsistency only consistency in COVID-19 pandemic

Yours truly with a standard COVID-19 vaccination picture.

“How the (explanative) did you get your shot already?”

That is a familiar refrain you might find in the comments sections on social media post when someone from Saskatchewan posts a picture of having received their COVID-19 vaccination. In Saskatchewan, it is common for people to post pictures on social media after they receive their first COVID-19 vaccination shot along with a circular green sticker.

Saskatchewan residents can receive those stickers at the place they got their vaccine poke from.

As people in younger age groups received their first COVID-19 vaccine shot in Saskatchewan, comments shows up from time to time from a person in another Canadian province saying they still have to wait a bit before getting their first shot.

That right there shows the many inconsistencies that have shown up during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which has gripped the world.

The first cancellations and restrictions in North America regarding the COVID-19 pandemic started to take hold way back on March 11, 2020.

Since the point, it has been the norm to see inconsistencies when it comes to dealing with the pandemic. Going hand in hand with the inconsistencies is people losing their minds with them.

Why can people, who are traveling within Canada, arrive at one province like Saskatchewan and be able to freely visit and then go to another province like Manitoba and have to quarantine for 14 days?

With North America having dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic for over 14 months now, you would think people would get used to the fact there are inconsistencies. Still, people seem to not disappoint in showing how emotional they can be and get worked up over the inconsistencies.

Mosaic Stadium pictured during the 2019 Labour Day Classic.

One of the most glaring recent ones occurred on Friday.

In Ontario, the City of Toronto cancelled all major in person events for a second straight summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That cancellation period runs through to and includes the Sept. 4-6 Labour Day weekend.

The population of the metro area of Toronto is over 6.1-million.

On that same day during a sitting at the Government of Saskatchewan legislature, Premier Scott Moe encouraged the province’s residents to get vaccinated, because if the province accomplishes its vaccination targets, the hint was dropped that the 33,356 seat Mosaic Stadium could be used for events.

“That’s how later this summer we are going to fill that stadium in this town,” said Moe.

Saskatchewan has a population of over 1.1-million.

Moe has talked to the media this week about seeing football fans flock to Mosaic Stadium this summer. Of course, Mosaic Stadium is home to the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, and those hints had some in Rider Nation jumping up and down believing that there is no doubt their team is going to play.

At the moment, the CFL season is scheduled to begin on August 5. The circuit wasn’t able to navigate a way to get on the field in 2020 due to the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presented with public health orders and travel restrictions.

In reality, the start of the CFL is far from a guaranteed thing. It is conceivable that Saskatchewan as a province could be in position to host something like a CFL game at the end of August, but the rest of Canada won’t be in that position.

Jess Moskaluke performs in 2016.

Judging by mainstream media reports, Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout appears to be very efficient, which is allowing “The Wheat Province” to do a lot better in that department than most of the rest of Canada.

If Saskatchewan gets to that place where it is possible to host events at Mosaic Stadium at full capacity at the end of August, you might likely see a Jess Moskaluke concert but not a Roughriders football game.

Of course, there will likely be a handful of Roughriders diehards that will be planning how the entire nine-team CFL can play out of Saskatchewan using Mosaic Stadium and Saskatoon’s the Griffiths Stadium and Saskatoon Minor Football Field in that scenario.

Griffiths Stadium has been able to hold over 8,000 spectators in its current configuration, while SMF Field can seat a crowd of 5,000.

Actually, Saskatchewan might hit the position where hockey at all levels including the WHL, the junior A SJHL, and the under-18 AAA male and female ranks returns to game action before any other area in Canada does.

That might go for all sorts of sports and entertainment activities.

The Atlantic provinces might get to those things earlier as they have been able to have an “Atlantic Travel Bubble” at times during the pandemic.

Still, a lot of Saskatchewan residents don’t seem to comprehend is that the rest of the world doesn’t unfold like it does in “The Land of the Living Skies.”

There are some that believe Saskatchewan’s vaccine rollout and COVID-19 restrictions are mirrored in the rest of Canada, and that is far from the case.

It seems people can’t grasp the continuing inconsistencies when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.

Unfortunately, you likely have better odds of winning the main jackpot for the Lotto Max lottery than seeing those inconsistencies go away.

The Regina Pats salute a Brandt Centre crowd in 2017.

Like it or not, the inconsistencies are here to stay.

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