07-11-2021, 04:05 PM
(07-11-2021, 12:27 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(07-11-2021, 11:46 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Revisiting this a month and a half later ... Ontario is now at 68.90% vaccinated (first shot only, but it indicates those people are willing to get vaccinated), and that's of total population. Of the eligible (12+) population we are at about 79% right now. We are making awesome vaccination progress now, and still no significant portion of the population with hesitancy (ignoring the preference for a specific vaccine here).
US states have big variations in vaccination levels and hesitancy (Vermont 74% one dose, Mississippi under 40%); Canadian provinces are impressively consistent on this.
I mean, the US has some serious issues...vaccine hesitancy during a global pandemic isn't even the most serious of them. I am honestly worried about the future in the US.
GOP is a unique beast down in the USA right now, lots of changes, none of them good. I wouldn't call then true conservatives (after all, Trump isn't a Conservative) either. What's happening is that many are rejecting politicians that aren't exactly opposite to their democratic counterpart. This is why guys like Mitt Romney get booed. There seems to be a genuine fear of Trump, and I have no idea why. It seems that no many are eager to piss him off (Cheney is one of the exceptions, plus handful of others). A real cult following for Trump. Never seen anything quite like it, with the exception of the North Korean leader.
Anyway, this will mess them up when it comes to vaccines. While most Republicans have gotten their vaccine, they certainly haven't encouraged it much. Now, will the USA go into a forth wave? I don't know -- I think so many got sick, and others are vaccinated, there might not be a lot of hosts left, and as for covid deaths, I don't think they'll spike again.
But at least here in Canada all the leaders are on the same page when it comes to the vaccine. Even the PM has a split vaccine (we both got AZ then Moderna). Ford got AZ for both. Erin O'Toole got his shots, and was the one questioning the timing of 16 weeks (and lucky for Canadians, it got reduced to 4 or 8 weeks, depending on your first shot).
Back to the USA -- lots of conspiracy theorists there. Trump loved this, and promoted it, and had his own conspiracies. We'll see where it gets them in the end.