Rural Alberta is the place to be
As Canadians reassess what is important to them while stuck in Covid-19 isolation, there may be a lot of city dwellers saying “goodbye city life” in the near future.
Post-pandemic population studies have shown that a certain amount of de-urbanization has sometimes followed. Could a “Green Acres” syndrome follow Covid-19?
This pandemic, like all past ones, infects people more in areas of high population densities. It’s difficult to social distance when the only way to get around economically is mass transit. Urban residents endure line-ups everywhere, and the spread of disease is bolstered by airports connecting international travellers.
Consequently Covid-19 infection percentages in large urban areas are more than nine times what they are in rural areas, despite the commuting, shopping and travelling of today’s vogue and modern rural residents. New York has the highest population density in the USA (10,000 per sq. km.), and its death toll due to Covid-19 has just topped 10,000. As many as one-third of American cases have come from New York, its most vibrant city. . . . contd.
