It is extremely unfortunate for those that get these clots. It sucks. But life is literally all about managing risk.
There are risks to doing things & risks to avoiding them.
For instance these are the risks from a single peak ‘day’ of COVID cases in AB via @AntibioticDoc
We ordered 20 million doses of AstraZeneca. At a rate of 1 in 100,000, we’d expect 200 cases of blood clots nationwide if we used every single one.
214 people died of COVID since Thursday (not including today).
So many people die b/c they decided to wait to get vaccinated?
For that matter, how many blood clots do we ‘cause’ from COVID because people waited to get vaccinated?
In fairness to NACI, I get what they’re saying. We’re going to have a boatload of Pfizer and Moderna. Enough for everyone. So if we can avoid 200 blood clots, why not avoid them?
Problem is we’re in crisis mode, ICUs are packed, and we don’t have enough Pfizer/Moderna ‘today’!
I think a more useful guidance is can we mix doses? Like can the people who took AZ in round 1, get an mRNA vaccine in round 2?
Studies about this are ongoing. It’s ‘possible’ mixing would give you better protection.
This guidance is expected later this month.
If everyone gets dose 1 quickly, (hopefully) we’ll be in a very different COVID situation as everyone gets dose 2.
If there’s less COVID around, then there’s less risk in waiting a couple weeks longer. Then maybe it makes sense to go mRNA alone. Minimize the already low risk.
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Here’s the thing: if you’re fine with Tom Wilson’s actions b/c hockey is a “violent game” then you’re also fine w/ excess rates of substance use, depression & other mental health problems.
One leads to the other. You’re either pro-Wilson or pro-mental health. You can’t be both.
Hockey is a fast, physical game. People will get hurt. Concussions will happen.
But if the explicit way to mitigate intentional head injuries is to have ‘tough’ players to cause head injuries back, we basically just openly want hockey players & their families to suffer.
Which, I mean, if that’s what you want then fine. But own it. Say it.
“I want hockey to be as violent a game as possible and if the players suffer from substance use, depression, maybe suicide... so be it. They signed up for it. They & their families pay that price.”
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
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.