A fact that has been forgotten, or is not that well known, is Canada does have the ability to produce its own vaccines. It just happened that the Trudeau Liberal Government did not want any help even after it was offered it by GlaxoSmith Cline just meters down the road from the NRC building. Glaxo offered to produce the vaccine saying it would not have take them long to ramp up and they would be producing and sending those vaccines Canada wide today. They will now be making the vaccine or are in talks to produce the vaccine for other countries. The Government of Canada is not work in the best interest of Canadians when it comes to vaccines. Not in any way. They are working to keep globalization alive regardless it has caused the death of many Canadians. It was due to their globalist belief system and ideology, so instead of doing what most G 7 countries did , making a vaccine at home, it was making deals with China It’s not about Canadians at all, it’s about looking good to the rest of the world. Even with the deals it was making during this Pandemic emergency it was about helping their friends and those who work with the Liberal Ministers, like old Liberal Ministers, and new Ministers husbands, and WE. To which they still hide any and all truth from Canadians. So much for this more transparent and open government of Canada we have been promised. My god it’s hide and seek over everything from these Liberal politicians. I mean everything. Those who believe in Trudeau allow him to do as he pleases, even interfering in our Justice system with out batting an eye and trying to destroy a great Canadian, Admiral Mark Norman, for doing his job. Canadians are truthfully to fault for the incompetency of Trudeau on protecting our borders to procuring vaccines as that was the only two things they were truly to be responsible for. It’s what most would call a complete failure by the Liberal Government of Canada on both responsibilities. Instead they try and make the Provinces look bad in hopes Canadians will blame them, which they have. With blame being so easily placed Canadians have some soul searching to do as they are responsible for the Liberals still running the country, even from the front step of Trudeau’s cottage. Hence they are responsible for the failures of Trudeau and the Liberal Government of Canada. Complete failures I might add.
There is value in a diversity of vaccine options. Can you imagine if we didn’t have Pfizer, or if Merck or Sanofi was the front runner and we didn’t have them?
We are lucky the Cansino deal didn’t happen, but what is it with the Liberal party and China? It's like a codependent relationship, they keep screwing us, and we return for more.
I am okay with paying too much for vaccines, if we were at the front of the queue but instead we appear to be at the back and we are the first to get cut off.
Once we start manufacturing our own vaccines, it will be like the Navy ships. We will pay ten times too much and they will arrrive 10 years late.
The question of fully vaccinated people needing to wear masks is moot. It will be many months before anyone encounters a room of fully vaccinated Canadians. In the meantime I will wear my mask outdoors, indoors, in the bathtub and when I sleep. You can never be too safe.
Some of these are spot on (ie. we stopped hearing about vaccines in the freezer in Ontario when the Astra Zeneca ages were lowered. This was more a case of unfortunate communication from the Provincial Government on the status of the vaccine program where they allowed a true headline of hundreds of thousands of vaccines in the fridge while they were closing down vaccine clinics without context.
But a lot of this feels unfair and does have a decidedly anti-Federal government tilt to it. Lets take these two as my big examples on the amount of vaccines we ordered and the 'vaccine diversity'. Taken in a bubble the above is correct, but consider when these vaccines were procured. Had the government not invested in multiple vaccine candidates and in numbers that would ensure the population was covered no matter the outcome then they would've been opened to criticism. If we're going to be critical of the partnership with China (fair) then credit needs to be given for also having contingencies. And sure, we may have overkill on vaccines but if that gets us to herd immunity faster and opens up the economy, then the cost is effectively worth it in my eyes.
One final thought. I don't disagree with Fraser that we really have to provide that 'light at the end of the tunnel' but we're in the midst of this 3rd Wave because governments have tried to spare us the unvarnished truth. We're supposed to be adults. We should be given the straight goods and governments shouldn't be afraid to make unpopular decisions to get us to that end line. It's a bunch of half measures and screwing around from all governments that have us where we are.
"Being vaccinated is supposed to have advantages. When we still face serious vaccine hesitancy, those advantages should be broadcast as loudly and widely as possible." 100% !!
Not sure about the provincial excuses, though. Looks like some provinces have developed better rollout programs than others.
Shot yourself in the foot with "Japan being inexplicably slow". The list of wealthy, well-run countries way behind Canada is actually quite long: Germany, Spain, France, Singapore, Belgium, Portugal, Denmarkj, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland.
Are they all "INEXPLICABLY" slow? Just some bizarre, one-time-only (well, 15-times-only) phenomenon involving UFO intervention?
Maybe it's that vaccinating a whole country is just HARD. Even little Singapore. Brilliantly-run pandemic hero, South Korea, is at 4.7% today. Your text intends to debunk "<COUNTRY> is behind us", but it's just a long, long list of countries.
I've read that the Chinese vaccine proved not nearly as effective when used in South America. I'm think you maybe alluded to that, but in my opinion we dodged a bullet on that one. The vaccine rollout here in SK has been surprisingly good while other means of dealing with the pandemic, restrictions mostly, have been unbelievably bad.
A fact that has been forgotten, or is not that well known, is Canada does have the ability to produce its own vaccines. It just happened that the Trudeau Liberal Government did not want any help even after it was offered it by GlaxoSmith Cline just meters down the road from the NRC building. Glaxo offered to produce the vaccine saying it would not have take them long to ramp up and they would be producing and sending those vaccines Canada wide today. They will now be making the vaccine or are in talks to produce the vaccine for other countries. The Government of Canada is not work in the best interest of Canadians when it comes to vaccines. Not in any way. They are working to keep globalization alive regardless it has caused the death of many Canadians. It was due to their globalist belief system and ideology, so instead of doing what most G 7 countries did , making a vaccine at home, it was making deals with China It’s not about Canadians at all, it’s about looking good to the rest of the world. Even with the deals it was making during this Pandemic emergency it was about helping their friends and those who work with the Liberal Ministers, like old Liberal Ministers, and new Ministers husbands, and WE. To which they still hide any and all truth from Canadians. So much for this more transparent and open government of Canada we have been promised. My god it’s hide and seek over everything from these Liberal politicians. I mean everything. Those who believe in Trudeau allow him to do as he pleases, even interfering in our Justice system with out batting an eye and trying to destroy a great Canadian, Admiral Mark Norman, for doing his job. Canadians are truthfully to fault for the incompetency of Trudeau on protecting our borders to procuring vaccines as that was the only two things they were truly to be responsible for. It’s what most would call a complete failure by the Liberal Government of Canada on both responsibilities. Instead they try and make the Provinces look bad in hopes Canadians will blame them, which they have. With blame being so easily placed Canadians have some soul searching to do as they are responsible for the Liberals still running the country, even from the front step of Trudeau’s cottage. Hence they are responsible for the failures of Trudeau and the Liberal Government of Canada. Complete failures I might add.
There is value in a diversity of vaccine options. Can you imagine if we didn’t have Pfizer, or if Merck or Sanofi was the front runner and we didn’t have them?
We are lucky the Cansino deal didn’t happen, but what is it with the Liberal party and China? It's like a codependent relationship, they keep screwing us, and we return for more.
I am okay with paying too much for vaccines, if we were at the front of the queue but instead we appear to be at the back and we are the first to get cut off.
Once we start manufacturing our own vaccines, it will be like the Navy ships. We will pay ten times too much and they will arrrive 10 years late.
The question of fully vaccinated people needing to wear masks is moot. It will be many months before anyone encounters a room of fully vaccinated Canadians. In the meantime I will wear my mask outdoors, indoors, in the bathtub and when I sleep. You can never be too safe.
Some of these are spot on (ie. we stopped hearing about vaccines in the freezer in Ontario when the Astra Zeneca ages were lowered. This was more a case of unfortunate communication from the Provincial Government on the status of the vaccine program where they allowed a true headline of hundreds of thousands of vaccines in the fridge while they were closing down vaccine clinics without context.
But a lot of this feels unfair and does have a decidedly anti-Federal government tilt to it. Lets take these two as my big examples on the amount of vaccines we ordered and the 'vaccine diversity'. Taken in a bubble the above is correct, but consider when these vaccines were procured. Had the government not invested in multiple vaccine candidates and in numbers that would ensure the population was covered no matter the outcome then they would've been opened to criticism. If we're going to be critical of the partnership with China (fair) then credit needs to be given for also having contingencies. And sure, we may have overkill on vaccines but if that gets us to herd immunity faster and opens up the economy, then the cost is effectively worth it in my eyes.
One final thought. I don't disagree with Fraser that we really have to provide that 'light at the end of the tunnel' but we're in the midst of this 3rd Wave because governments have tried to spare us the unvarnished truth. We're supposed to be adults. We should be given the straight goods and governments shouldn't be afraid to make unpopular decisions to get us to that end line. It's a bunch of half measures and screwing around from all governments that have us where we are.
"Being vaccinated is supposed to have advantages. When we still face serious vaccine hesitancy, those advantages should be broadcast as loudly and widely as possible." 100% !!
Not sure about the provincial excuses, though. Looks like some provinces have developed better rollout programs than others.
Shot yourself in the foot with "Japan being inexplicably slow". The list of wealthy, well-run countries way behind Canada is actually quite long: Germany, Spain, France, Singapore, Belgium, Portugal, Denmarkj, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland.
Are they all "INEXPLICABLY" slow? Just some bizarre, one-time-only (well, 15-times-only) phenomenon involving UFO intervention?
Maybe it's that vaccinating a whole country is just HARD. Even little Singapore. Brilliantly-run pandemic hero, South Korea, is at 4.7% today. Your text intends to debunk "<COUNTRY> is behind us", but it's just a long, long list of countries.
Fisman is positioning for public office.
I've read that the Chinese vaccine proved not nearly as effective when used in South America. I'm think you maybe alluded to that, but in my opinion we dodged a bullet on that one. The vaccine rollout here in SK has been surprisingly good while other means of dealing with the pandemic, restrictions mostly, have been unbelievably bad.