06-16-2021, 09:43 PM
(06-16-2021, 09:24 PM)jeffster Wrote:(06-16-2021, 09:06 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: —snip—
Don’t get be wrong, I am not against vaccinating younglings. I just find it odd that we still haven’t hit our targets with the older crowd. That said, a proper vaccination system could have all student vaccinated in a short time. A mass vaccination June 29 and August 24 at each school would have all children vaccinated 2 weeks before school starts. The logistics of this wouldn’t have been that hard. Unsure why something so simple when I went to school can’t be done these days.
What older crowd do you want to be vaccinated? The 60+ population in Waterloo Region is all over 75% vaccinated with a first dose and 29.93% with a second so what target are you talking about? Yes it would be possible to do something like that but what is wrong with allowing them to get vaccinated like everyone else? More then 50% of the 12-17 age group has a first dose its not like they're taking away doses from any other portion of the population if that was the case they wouldn't be getting doses, and second doses for them are being booked so they can be fully vaccinated before school starts. We aren't doing any worse then any other region in Ontario vaccination wise, as others have said we got less doses during the 3rd wave since the province was prioritizing hotspots in order to stop cases from completely exploding in them so regions that weren't hotspots are going to be further behind then places like Peel and Toronto, it's not the regions fault that the province was giving more doses to other areas of the province since they were in greater need of them at the time, every PHU is going to be advocating for vaccines just as much as the next so its not like the region has a say in the number of doses they have. Ontop of this all its not as if our vaccination numbers are slowing so its not as if a lack of vaccines is to blame for the current rise in cases its just we got unlucky.