Roundup: Mandatory vaccination is Canadian

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There’s been some nonsense going around the pundit-sphere over the weekend about mandatory vaccinations being “against what Canada stands for.” Erm, except we’ve had mandatory vaccinations since around 1885, because public health concerns are public health. Seriously. This is not that difficult, people.

Good reads:

  • Health Canada’s chief medical advisor says that omicron-specific vaccines will arrive too late to help with the current wave. (Current vaccines work just fine, guys).
  • Dominic LeBlanc says that the crush of requests from provinces has made it more difficult to respond during the current wave, as it’s all happening at once.
  • Mélanie Joly has departed for a week-long trip that will stop in Kyiv, Paris and Brussels, partially on NATO business.
  • There are questions as to whether it’s worth continuing to test at the border as extensively as we are, given the prevalence of omicron.
  • Staff shortages at all levels are frustrating the ability to help Indigenous communities facing omicron outbreaks.
  • Former NDP leader Alexa MucDonough died over the weekend.
  • Supriya Dwivedi suggests that whether the it goes ahead fully or not, François Legault’s threat to tax the unvaccinated has already proven to be successful.
  • Althia Raj talks to Green Party interim leader Amita Kuttner about the previous leadership vote and how to make this one different.
  • Susan Delacourt thinks that it’s time to tear down 24 Sussex, and that Trudeau is the perfect one to do it both symbolically and because he’s unsentimental enough.
  • Colby Cosh swats away the notion that we need to change the name of the House of Commons into something more American.
  • My weekend column looks at the state of our poisoned political discourse and what it will take to change course.

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7 thoughts on “Roundup: Mandatory vaccination is Canadian”

    • Covid in all forms is a tough disease. No one who was attentive thought that vaccines were totally effective in preventing the disease. People with respiratory ailments, those with diabetes and a whole host of other comorbidities can and have contracted Covid which has caused hospitalization, The facts show that those who were smart enough to take a vaccine have hospital stays and deaths. Those who eschewed the jab are making up a vast majority of people in ICU’s.

      • Your point is not supported by verifiable information. And is NOT the case in Saskatchewan.

        • The official Dashboard from Saskatchewan for the date Jan 16 shows 162 hospitalizations, 150 inpatient, 12 ICU.
          Of the 150, 65 are Covid related, 55 are incidental. 30 have yet to be determined. Of the 12 ICU, 7 are Covid related, 5 for incidental Covid infections.
          Further research shows that hospitalizations for fully or partially vaccinations were 6 per 100,000 and 35 for those unvaccinated. These were reported by the government. I can’t understand what your comment is designed to achieve?
          It would appear that those who chose to be vaccinated have a very positive outcome if infected by Omicron.
          A quick scan of Dashboards from jurisdictions across Canada shows similar results.

    • You keep ignoring the denominator of how many people in the population are vaccinated versus unvaccinated. There are fewer unvaccinated people, but more of them are hospitalized overall. This is basic numeracy.

      • My comment is in regard to percentages of hospitalizations, not about percentages of population.

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