Covid news du jour
I haven’t given the anti-vaxxers any blog time lately, but on a day that hit a peak of 3846 new cases, that someone could hold up a sign saying IL N’Y A AUCUN VIRUS in downtown Montreal simply displays the ongoing idiocy of their position.
New Quebec restrictions come into force Monday. There were reports of bars holding last dances Saturday and Sunday, but some have been cancelled.
All cross-border NHL matches are postponed, including three Canadiens games meant to be played in New York and New Jersey this week. The Gazette talked to Brendan Gallagher, in recovery from Covid, who says the virus hit him hard.
YUL514 00:41 on 2021-12-21 Permalink
I heard from a family member yesterday, “It’s the media blowing things out of proportion”. I didn’t know the media created almost 4,000 cases per day and a growing surge of hospitalizations. Must be because of the media that half the hospital beds are taken up Covid patients. They still don’t get it.
GC 09:28 on 2021-12-21 Permalink
If they haven’t gotten it yet, they’re never going to get it. I heard from someone this week who doesn’t see why he should “get a third shot of something that doesn’t work”. Not, of course, considering the vaccine actually IS working and we could be much worse off without it…
YUL514 11:41 on 2021-12-21 Permalink
GC, we’d be like the former Eastern Bloc countries if we were vaccinated at their horrible rates. They’re still wary of their governments though, we have no excuse here.
10 of the top 12 countries in “Deaths per million” are Eastern Bloc countries. Look at the vaccination rates of countries like Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania etc….absolutely brutal, all under 50% with a few in the 20s and 30s.
GC 13:24 on 2021-12-22 Permalink
I did a quick Google of countries’ death rates and was surprised to see how horribly Peru is doing for deaths. Not that I knew much of anything about what was going on there, but it seems like Brazil gets all the media attention on South America–at least from our media.
Is the problem with Bosnia, etc. availability of vaccines or acceptance of vaccines? Both?