02-22-2021, 09:01 PM
(02-22-2021, 07:42 PM)ac3r Wrote: I'm not sure where you pulled these imaginary points from. I am indeed complaining that we've failed to get vaccines to keep Canadians healthy and alive. We blundered with the vaccines, plain and simple (I say this while also acknowledging the issues with supply, but that was not the only problem). And yes, why is it taking 3 weeks to vaccinate people when other nations are doing much more in a single day? It doesn't make any sense.
If we had a bountiful vaccine supply, and we vaccinated at the same rate as the US, it would still take us about 1.5 weeks to vaccinate as many people as they do in a day: we are roughly 1/10 the size. So, on a per capita basis, Canada taking three weeks would mean that we are vaccinating at roughly half the rate of the US, which is not so bad considering the supply constraints (I did not check your math and I don't know how many we are vaccinating at the moment, though).
I posted vaccination stats for not-small developed countries a few weeks ago, including a reference link to te data. Apart from the two big outliers (UK and the US) which have domestic production, most of the other countries, including Canada, were clustered fairly close together.