No vaccine is 100% effective. Especially in the elderly, immunocompromised, and most vulnerable individuals. Continued virus circulating in the community is a threat to them.
More vaccination = Less virus = Less threat
Mutations can lead to variants that spread faster, are more deadly, and could evade immunity... as we’ve already seen.
Less vaccination -> more virus -> more mutations -> more variants
We can withstand ‘some’ people choosing not to get the vaccine (or being unable to for some reason). In fact, we can probably withstand 15% of us not doing it. Maybe 20%.
But push beyond that and we’re playing with fire.
Yeah, basically this but also the risk to yourself.
If you do get the virus and pass it on to someone else who dies, it’s like killing someone while drunk driving. You may not have intended to hurt anyone, but it’s a clear consequence of your decision.
I do not remember the feel of ice. A hockey stick in my hands. The cool breeze as I skate. Some days I wonder if hockey was but a dream. An echo of a past life. Was I once a hockey player? Who am I now? Just a man who wishes an end to purgatory.
- Evan Bouchard
Maybe they sent Evan Bouchard on a near light-speed orbit so he returns some time in the future when they need him most though he ages only days like Mazer Rackham in Ender’s Game.
Perhaps Evan The Grey is currently fighting a Balrog deep in the Mines of Rogers Place. His last words to Drai and McDavid as he was pulled into the large cracks in the ice at Rogers Place: Fly, you fools!
Here’s the thing, we’re “managing” right now because the variant load is still mostly in Regina & patients can be spread elsewhere. But if/when the variants go widespread... there’s no longer ‘some’ triaging.
You know, @Kinger999 is right, Saskatchewan should set a target that says Mosaic Stadium will be open at full capacity for the Riders if the province hits an 85% adult vaccination rate.
Just pass out a watermelon helmet with every vaccination card. Come on people, this isn’t hard to figure out!
I did the math. Great West Pil is $35 for 24 right now. It would cost $1.16M to give the first 85% of all Sask adults a Pilsner with their vaccination.
Getting vaccinated against COVID should be easiest thing anyone does in society. You should be able to call out your window and a public health nurse floats down like Mary Fucking Poppins and jabs you with the end of their umbrella.
How can we coordinate hundreds of locations with multiple different eligibility criteria?
If I want a donair, Skip The Fucking Dishes will connect me with the closest one and give me a 15 minute time frame. I don’t have to phone 8 different donair waiting lists.