(06-30-2021, 04:47 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(06-30-2021, 02:34 PM)jeffster Wrote: The region has 3 walk-in clinics again. And surprise, 2 are in Waterloo (Boardwalk and Regina St) and one a the Pharmacy School in Kitchener. Again, not accessible for 95% of the at risk population. Talk about stubborn. As if doing things right would be equal to admitting fault.
Sorry, our PHU is complete garbage. Bottom of the barrel compared to the rest of Canada and the US.
https://twitter.com/ROWPublicHealth/stat...9817178112 Every single clinic is a first-dose walk-in starting tomorrow.
tomh009 is right though, your constant unsubstantiated hate for the region just makes the rest of your post ignorable. It's very clear you hate the region, and probably blame them for the weather. You keep making assertions, and totally fail to back it up with data. It really undermines your point when the data you linked, on percent vaccinated in Toronto, was clearly incorrect but you still didn't change your conclusions. Meanwhile you refuse to acknowledge that Waterloo being 90% delta while Toronto is 10% delta could in any way be a factor, it must be 100% the region's fault and nothing to do with the different variants.
Yeah, it's the weather. Stuff like that makes me realize how ignorant people are in this region. We have a problem and people like you don't want to acknowledge it, as you feel that the region is #1 at doing a great job. But....
Sorry, but if we continue to have shitty amount of cases and are #1 in Ontario day after day after day, we are doing a shitty job. What PROOF do you need? That's the data, published by Tom everyday, I run the cases per 100K per 7 days ever day, plus shit ton in the paper, TV, and elsewhere. Open you damned eyes. I can send you articles after article of our case count. It's posted every freaking day. And what do we do about it? The same thing, day after day! Yes, lets have walk in clinics in Waterloo that is NO WHERE CLOSE to any hard hit community. Yes, let's have a clinic a "drive-thru" clinic at freaking Bingeman's (oh, but "Pedestrians and cyclists are welcome!) -- WHAT? Who the hell is going to walk out there?
This region is stupid because they are not putting any permanent clinics in any area of the city that has elevated numbers of covid cases. They are not informing people on how they can get their vaccine (there has been nothing). How hard is it to ask Canada Post to send out flyers? Guess what, it's not hard. And it's cheap (and probably free in this case, because it's government). Out vaccine website it complete trash, with people not even able to get their booking. Hell, register successfully weeks ago and never heard back, never got a notice that I need to retry because they ditched all the old pre-regs.
We're NOT doing anything right here. No evidence. Show be evidence that people from Vanier know they can walk over to Bingeman's to get a shot. Has the region sent out notices to those in Vic Hills area that they can go to the Pharmacy tomorrow? Have they offered free rides, perhaps even a GRT shuttle? Anything? Or crickets? Do they advertised this to the local media? Or crickets? How is it we all knew about the City of Toronto having a mass vaccination at Scotia Centre but very few are getting any message in Region of Waterloo? Is there no reason why we can't do the same at The And? At least it's central, at least it has parking, it least it has transit, at least it's close to the highway. No...we don't. No creativity.
If you think we're doing a great job, post the evidence. I would love to be proved wrong. Show me what we're doing right.
Meanwhile, our businesses continues to suffer. The general public continues to suffer. We are, as I mentioned, the only place in Canada that is still on a hard lockdown -- yet our case count is not getting better (hint, lockdown don't work, just like they didn't work in Toronto, just like they didn't work in Peel).
Time to get your heads out the sand, folks. Don't accept what the region is doing is great. Expect better from them. Because if we don't, we'll never get out of this hole.
BTW: Where did you get 90% Delta for RoW and 10% Delta for Toronto? I can't find this anywhere, and I've looked -- talk about making up alternative facts. (and one fact of Delta, is that it doesn't appear to be special when it comes to making people ill)