Canada's 'Doing Better' on Vaccine Rollout Because of US Political 'Divisiveness' Over Vaccinations

[SouthernCal_Dem]

Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday that Canada is doing better than the United States in its vaccination rollout right now because of the political divisiveness in the U.S. over vaccines.

CNN’s Kate Bolduan asked the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director about Canada’s progress in vaccinating their population compared to the United States, recently surpassing the U.S. on percentage of the population that has been completely vaccinated.

Fauci said that Canada’s doing better “not because we trying any less than they are trying,” but because “in Canada you don’t have that divisiveness of people not wanting to get vaccinated, in many respects on the basis of ideology and political persuasion, and that’s something that we’ve been saying for some time now.”

He continued to express concern about vaccines being politicized, saying it “doesn’t make any sense to essentially disregard or don’t pay attention to what’s obvious.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fauci-says-canadas-doing-better-on-vaccine-rollout-because-of-us-political-divisiveness-over-vaccinations/

[roamer65]

1. The hotbed of anti-vaccine sentiment in Canada is Alberta, Sask and western BC, no doubt.

That region is annoyingly conservative, thus rather stupid.

[LonePirate]

2. Top priority of citizens of other countries: Staying alive. Top priority for US RWNJs: Opposing libs

[Whiskeytide]

3. I suspect Canadians - seeing who opposes ...

… the vaccine in the US - are getting it in greater numbers because they are rational, intelligent people who don’t want to be mistaken for idiots.

[TrogL]

4. I had my second shot last week

Alberta Health Services has rented a convention centre with a massive parking lot. When you get inside, they've opened up the partitions that normally separate the large rooms so there's an open area about the size of two football fields.

As you book an appointment ahead of time (mine was same day) lines are relatively short but that's also because there's an online pre-check that you just wave at them, a dozen or so intake desks, then row on row of vaccination stations. When you're done you wait in another large area supervised by some nurses.

I was in and out in 45 minutes.