Today I heard about a cleaver thing the BC goverment did to get people to get the shot. Because of the wild fires in the interior tourists are heading to Vancouver Island instead of the interor. It caused very very long lines at the ferry dock and it was on a very very hot. So the BC goverment sent in vaccination buses with signs that said - get your shots in air conditiondry comfort. A lot of people got their shout to get out of the heat for a half hour or so. Cheers and happy weekend!
I'm sure there are anti-vaxers in other nations, but I don't think any nation has so politicized the pandemic as the U.S. has. We are masters at division and politicizing absolutely everything imaginable. It will be our downfall.
Wanna bet? Australia ordered millions of AZ (one of the major reasons why an anti-corruption commission is urgent, several members of the Party in charge of things rn own shares in the company, ergo insider trading which is illegal everywhere) and not enough of the Pfizer. Surprise, surprise, AZ is contraindicated for anybody under 50, under 60 if there are pre-existing blood pressure or heart issues. Ergo, many front-line healthcare workers can't get their shots, including my daughter. The Prime Monster can only bleat "it's not a race". Excuse me, Scummo? It is a race and we are losing. Sydney is in lockdown. Brisbane is in lockdown. Melbourne and Adelaide have just come out of lockdown and may yet impose another one. The only major Australian city to avoid this delta variant wave thus far is Perth, because Western Australia imposed a hard border and nobody is allowed in. We've also got anti-vax nutjobs, and idiots who defied lockdown to attend a protest which will almost certainly have been a super-spreader. We need Pfizer and the government was too dumb to secure supply.
They've problems with vaccinations against other diseases, too, in other countries.
Two policemen have been shot in NW Pakistan while guarding a polio vaccination clinic. The gun-men responsible (who fled the scene of course) were probably motivated by a myth invented by God-knows-who, that the vaccine is a Western plot to sterilise the children.
This post was edited by Wolfhound at July 30, 2021 8:26 PM MDT
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