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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:53PM (#27056853)
Our media (US that is) seems to pick and choose which counties are "handing it well" seemly with little regard to statistics. Canada has largely been portrayed as handling the whole situation very well and if you polled random people on the street of a US city I'd be willing to bet quite a bit they think your vaccine rates are comparable or better then the US.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by busymom0 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:07PM (#27057023)
Which is where the whole politicizing the pandemic comes into place. Canada's vaccine roll out has been complete garbage. Which is mostly because we didn't make our own vaccine (didn't have facilities) and are relying on other countries to give it to us.

India was able to make their own vaccine and so far vaccinated 158M single and 29.1M fully. US 248M and 106M fully. Yet Canada wasn't able to make their own and so far only 14M single and 1M fully.

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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:11PM (#27057068)
They won't say it publicly but I'm guessing the real strategy at this point is keep restriction going through the summer and they have worked out a deals with the US where they (and Mexico probably) will get first dibs on all the US's extra stockpile.
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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by refurb on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:28PM (#27057691)
Canada was handling it well (or just lucky) until this past Q4.

I have friends in BC. For a population of 5 million they had around 2,000 cases in September. Now? 130,000 cases. They got complacent, people let their guards down, it exploded.

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Re:Canadians fly south for shot as US demand falls by CountDrewku on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:00PM (#27056948)
It depends on whether you only get your info from MSM or get info from new media. From the latter I've seen a lot of stories about the police acting gestapo like with arrests for non-masking, gatherings etc. So, my view is certainly not positive when it comes to Canada but I'm sure you're correct when it comes to the average citizen.
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