The COVID-19 pandemic

[plam]

It'd be interesting to understand why this is. Is it because we've barred unvaccinated people from most parts of society now, so they don't have much interaction with the public outside of friends/essential shopping? Regardless, although vaccinated are more likely to catch this virus, if we're staying out of the hospitals it's working exactly as intended...although the unvaccinated will double down on their rhetoric and say "see, the vaccine doesn't work".

Also, the poor vaccination rates in the Indigenous community is alarming but not surprising. I'm Indigenous myself and maybe it's because most fellow Indigenous people I know are urban and university or college educated, but we're all vaccinated and understand the necessity for it. But so many others do, indeed, have poor faith in the government. Our leaders (Indigenous leaders, not the provincial/federal politicians) need to be doing more to spread the message out there. It's particularly bad up in Northern Canada - Nunavut is having a serious outbreak right now due to the close living quarters and longer winter nights which are keeping more people indoors. Considering we tend to have poorer health than whites or other people of colour, we should be doing everything we can to reach people.

What parts of society exactly are unvaxxed people barred from? There are a handful of workplaces, and restaurants, bars, and gyms (which are now closed to everyone) where unvaxxed people were barred from.

That isn't "most" of society by any measure.

So I don't actually have an Ontario-compliant vaccine pass, but that hasn't actually mattered; the only vaccine-required places I've gone to were the climbing gym, until this week, and the University of Waterloo. (I did get my NZ-issued vaccine certificate scanned in Quebec and that worked on the Quebec app, back before Omicron and when I thought things were relatively safe). I think it's reasonably possible to not have a vaccine pass these days.

Quebec is now requiring vaccine passes to shop in person at the SAQ and the SQDB (cannabis). And then the daily first-dose rate went from 1,500 to 6,000. Coincidence?