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Economy vs. health: Experts say COVID-19 has put Alberta in ‘disproportionate’ balance

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Stage 1 of the plan launches on Feb. 8, and includes the return of gyms — but only for private training.“There’s not a lot of people in a recession that can afford one-on-one training, and that’s about one percent of the population,” said Corey Peebles, who owns several locations of Anytime Fitness in Alberta.“We’ve kind of isolated many of the people that need to be able to utilize it.”Dean Curran, a sociology professor at the University of Calgary who focuses on inequality, said that generally, the restriction cycle that has come with COVID-19 has been especially hard on the less fortunate in the province.“In in any market society, almost every single good is rationed based on cost,” Curran said.

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