I perceive that the Conservatives and their pet punditry are purposely engendering anxiety about the vaccine. There is *no* silver bullet for this pandemic. This isn't going to be the last of zoonotic pandemics. /2 #cdnpoli

2/ There are measures known to be effective: masks, physical distancing, hand-washing, etc. The anti-mask crowd finds these measures too onerous. They will conveniently find a vaccine equally so. Because rights and freedoms. /3

3/ Meanwhile, the press - including our public broadcaster - is quite happy to foment anxiety, all the better to attract ears and eyeballs. The desperate Conservatives are more than happy to try to trade public confidence in our public health authorities for votes. /4

4/ Just now, a member of President-elect Biden's Covid advisory group noted that the vaccine is going to be in very limited supply in the early going, whenever that is. The Shadow Minister for Oklaberta should tune in to the US before acting like an idiot in the House.