That newspaper is BS. Covid is real. People I know have died.
That being said jurisdictions need to move on from the lockdowns. There is a decent vaccine uptake and the serology tests prove that the contact tracing and isolation regulations were ineffective anyway. Contact tracing only caught 1 in 4 cases of covid. That means 3/4 of covid cases went undetected. So either people hid their symptoms, had no or mild symptoms or had covid 19 prior to March 2020 when covid became flavour of the month for the mainstream media.
The province of Alberta has realized that there is no link between the number of infections and hospitalizations. They have been wasting precious resources trying to track down covid cases while at the same time babies are dying of preventable causes, cancer patients have missed their timely treatments and people are dying of drug overdoses and suicides. It’s time to move on.