Thought about vaccine wars:
the entire world desperately needs vaccines faster than they can be made (Canada is mid range in rollout and given the mortality rate outside LTC is quite low I don’t think comparing our situation to -for example -the US makes sense.
1/

US active case rate is 25-40X higher per capita than ours, with 3000-4000 deaths daily (Canada total pandemic deaths at 20,000 is 5-7 days in US.) I think supplies should be used to save the most lives. Full stop. Challenges
2/

Jumping the line- lower risk but higher privilege: e.g. rich neighborhoods getting vaccination clinics, but people are dying in poor ones. In addition, rich countries have hoovered up a huge proportion of the vaccine production for the next several months.
3/

advocacy should be about
1) optimal vaccine strategy to save the most lives given the unavoidably slow supply (this builds in equity), and to
2) raise issues around investing in Canada biotech for eventual home capacity (next pandemic?!)
4/

The media and social media coverage, somewhat puzzling suggestion that somehow things should have been done differently (how exactly?) wrt the supply issues is unrealistic - PLUS it seems to not help anything at all, but might well increase public anxiety and mistrust.
5/

With that in mind, expanded SoMe rules draft for your consideration.
Before you rant or hit share:

Is it ....
likely true?
Kind?
Necessary to say?
Respectful?

If not all of those-
Will it pull together or tear apart?
Will it help or could it harm?

Let’s be awesome.
/fin