Zardnaar
Deity
This is sad.
We have always seen Canadians as practical unpretentious people with common sense.
Yeah seen them as the kiwis of the American continent.
This is sad.
We have always seen Canadians as practical unpretentious people with common sense.
Some of us are. Most of those who aren't, are politicians of all three levels of government. I had to find a loophole and get my case worker in the outreach program at the seniors' centre to agree to it, to get my banking done because the idiots at City Hall have decided that banking is nonessential for the disabled people who take that form of transit.This is sad.
We have always seen Canadians as practical unpretentious people with common sense.
Stephen Harper is still very much in the picture, albeit in the backrooms of various subgroups of the Conservative Party of Canada (aka Reformacons) and he's been advising his good buddy Jason Kenney, the POS who is the current Premier of Alberta.According to wikiAh, you haven't read Valka's posts on Stephen Harper then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
there are 38,008,005 Canadians
and 38,008,004 are not that Stephen Harper.
Easy for someone in the not-at-risk portion of the population to say. Very soon I will have been staying at home (except for critical medical appointments and banking) for an entire year. I've been outside - literally outside - maybe a dozen times during that time. Some of you will likely have noticed that there are times when I'm extremely short-fused here... part of that is mental health-related. I'm angry so much of the time now because the places where I can usually go to take a break and unwind have either been closed or they're places where I've not been allowed to go because the transit department deems them "nonessential."Thats not really a fair assessment of the situation. They’ve established a priority list in a way that is determined to statistically have the biggest impact. Due to limited vaccines, some people that are “high priority” aren’t going to be first up on that list. Weird, minor edge cases don’t notably affect that.
You have just promted me to figure out that I have been locked down (voluntarily or legally) for 1 year and 13 daysVery soon I will have been staying at home (except for critical medical appointments and banking) for an entire year.
Not this one.what universe isitfair
In what universe is it fair to vaccinate murderers and rapists ahead of the staff who take care of Stage 4 cancer patients?
Pfizer and AZ vaccines reduce hospital admissions by 85% and 94%, study suggests
The Covid vaccination programme has been linked to a substantial reduction in hospital admissions,
PA Media is reporting. The PA story goes on:
Researchers examined coronavirus hospital admissions in Scotland among people who have had
their first jab and compared them with those who had not yet received a dose of the vaccine.
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Strathclyde and Public Health Scotland
examined data on people who had received either the Pfizer/BioNTech jab or the one developed
by experts at the University of Oxford with AstraZeneca.
By the fourth week after receiving the initial dose, the Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines were shown
to reduce the risk of hospital admission from Covid-19 by up to 85% and 94%, respectively, they found.
In what universe is it fair to vaccinate murderers and rapists ahead of the staff who take care of Stage 4 cancer patients?
Can you try to imagine why law-abiding, at-risk people would be upset about this? I'm not the only one.In the universe where the national advisory committee on immunization hasn’t specifically de-prioritized high-risk people in congregate settings because of their past criminal convictions.
They’re not especially consequential in terms of delay to others anyway - if you do the math, they’re only going to delay your vaccination by a single-digit number of minutes.
Do not talk to me about "doing the math." I don't live my life by eating and breathing statistics. As I said... this is all just theoretical and abstract to people who aren't personally at risk or have someone close to them who is at risk.
I doubt that there is much difference in efficacy between the two vaccines, and suspect that the Pfizer showed a lower efficiency than the OAZ vaccine in Scotland because it was issued slightly earlier to an on average slightly
more vulnerable set of people who were. because of the extra vulnerability, slightly more likely to be hospitalised.
You do need to take them into account, along with common sense. Kicking a woman out of the hospital for holding the hand of her terminally-ill husband who's dying anyway? If math told them to do that, math can go to hell.Math is how public policy is determined. You can’t govern effectively based on feelings. The least effective policies on covid-19 has been where feelings have driven policy.
Math is how public policy is determined. You can’t govern effectively based on feelings. The least effective policies on covid-19 has been where feelings have driven policy.
If math told them to do that, math can go to hell.