83% first vaccine dose uptake among age 12+, with second doses closing in, yet introducing this mandate with no hospitals currently overwhelmed, while many businesses still have mask mandates. What is the end game here.
Some BC hospitals are overwhelmed. Most of them are not. We want to keep it that way, and we also want to allow society to continue to re-open and move on from all this.
This vaccine card is how we preserve the liberty of the vaccinated majority from the tyranny of the unvaccinated minority.
While our average vaccine uptake is 83%, this is not at all evenly distributed. Most health areas have high uptake numbers. But there are local health areas in BC that are significantly lower than the rest of the province.
BC's most populated areas are Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health. And yet, recently, the Interior Health region has been having more total cases than those two larger health regions combined.
In fact, one single Local Health Authority - Central Okanagan (a sub-unit of a Health Region) was responsible for 20% of cases in BC during Aug 13-19th. It's also a Local Health Authority that was lagging behind the rest of the province on vaccination rates. It's starting to catch up. These things are not co-incidences. Choices have consequences.
What is the end game? The end game is hopefully that this measure remains temporary -- currently it's set to expire at the end of January 2022.
It can remain temporary if enough people manage to move beyond the insane propaganda, accept reality, and realize that these vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary for life to be able to safely return to normal.
In the meantime, those of us that want to go about our lives and go to restaurants and concerts and sports events would like to be able to do so without taking needless risk.
We don't allow drunk drivers to operate motor vehicles, we don't allow people to wander the streets with hazardous highly active nuclear waste, now we will also cease allowing the presence of Typhoid Karen in discretionary/recreational settings.
We're done with unvaccinated people causing our businesses to need to shut down and we're done with them keeping us from safely enjoying all the things we used to safely enjoy in 2019.
COVID is done because we are done with allowing people to not be the ones bearing the consequences of their misinformation-driven poor choices.
People don't need to get vaccinated. And they don't need to sit in a restaurant next to everyone else either.
