COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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My dad got dose 1 of the Phizer vaccine last week. He is in Saskatoon, SK.

A friend of mine from OH is just over 50. He got his today. I can't believe how badly TrueDope has messed up this rollout.
 
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My dad got dose 1 of the Phizer vaccine last week. He is in Saskatoon, SK.

A friend of mine from OH is just over 50. He got his today. I can't believe how badly TrueDope has messed up this rollout.
While I'm definitely no fan of Trudeau and don't generally find his performance encouraging, I would like to know exactly how he's messed up this rollout. First of all it's not an exact science and most people dealing with it are still "groping in the dark". One thing I have noticed is you can not compare different jurisdictions.................different geography, different personal characteristics, different cultures etc. etc. :) P.S. Different demographics was the term I was trying to recall.
 

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While I'm definitely no fan of Trudeau and don't generally find his performance encouraging, I would like to know exactly how he's messed up this rollout. First of all it's not an exact science and most people dealing with it are still "groping in the dark". One thing I have noticed is you can not compare different jurisdictions.................different geography, different personal characteristics, different cultures etc. etc. :) P.S. Different demographics was the term I was trying to recall.

Experts Rated 98 Nations Handling COVID. Canada Was 61st​

Top performers had little in common politically, the think tank found.​

Crawford Kilian3 Feb 2021 | TheTyee.ca​


Canada's terrible vaccine rollout is putting the economy at risk and we should be outraged​

Martin Pelletier: Countries that get their shots first will leapfrog us and get first crack at the post-COVID global economy

Author of the article:
Martin Pelletier
Publishing date:
Feb 08, 2021 • Last Updated February 8, 2021 • 4 minute read

How Ottawa utterly botched Canada's COVID vaccine acquisition​

Despite spending more money on this pandemic than anyone else, Canada is lagging behind almost every other developed nation in vaccination numbers

Author of the article:
Tristin Hopper
Publishing date:
Feb 05, 2021 • Last Updated February 5, 2021 • 4 minute read
 

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I still think trudie is doing us a backhanded favor.

 

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This is where being Métis pays off....
They are starting immunization at 10A.M. this Saturday at 10 AM for those who identify as Aboriginals
My appointment is at 10:10.....
 
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Not really. There are a few cheap, readily available things people should have instructed to do at the first sign of any symptoms.

Aspirin 81 alone could have saved millions of lives. It still can. All it takes is a 15 second commercial explaining how covid 1984 impacts the body's production of platelets. Same goes for anyone taking the AZ jab. Go home, take Aspirin 81..no clots.
 

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Not really. There are a few cheap, readily available things people should have instructed to do at the first sign of any symptoms.

Aspirin 81 alone could have saved millions of lives. It still can. All it takes is a 15 second commercial explaining how covid 1984 impacts the body's production of platelets. Same goes for anyone taking the AZ jab. Go home, take Aspirin 81..no clots.

What is amazing is the paucity of evidence about an elevated risk of blood clots after taking the AZ vaccine. It seems to be a classic example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Basically, just because B follows A does not mean that A caused B. In this case, Denmark was first to suspend the use of the AZ vaccine last week due to reports of clotting, including one fatal case. Other countries, including Norway and Iceland, quickly followed suit.

However, AstraZeneca has been quick to point out that there is no evidence of a problem. Yes, there have been cases of blood clots, but there don’t appear to be any more than one might expect. As David Spiegelhalter has pointed out, the European Medicines Agency says there have been 30 ‘thromboembolic events’ following around five million vaccinations. But, he notes, ‘Deep-vein thromboses (DVTs) happen to around one person per 1,000 each year, and probably more in the older population being vaccinated’.

Looking more broadly at the side effects from the vaccines, he concludes that ‘these vaccines have shown themselves to be extraordinarily safe’. He compares the logic to the misplaced scares around MMR and autism, which have led to many parents rejecting another safe vaccine. Of course, we should monitor the data in case a risk does arise – which is why we have a reporting system for side effects – but the data so far do not justify such extreme action.


More fool the EU. While Great Britain has rapidly vaccinated half its people with the Great British vaccine with hardly any side effects whatsoever, the EU is playing with people's lives and is standing by and watching its people die as it plays silly games when, during an emergency, there should be no such silly games. And while Britain will have all its people vaccinated and her back to normal, the EU will still be struggling to vaccinate its people and still be in lockdown.

Not our problem.

Thank God for Brexit.