It doesn’t inspire confidence in Canada’s game plan when a 10-year-old girl and other Afghans are compelled to travel to Kabul or Kandahar to get their passports while the Taliban lie in wait. The shooting death of a 10-year-old girl by the Taliban while her family was trying to obtain a Canadian passport in Kandahar is yet another clarion call for Canada to up its game in Afghanistan. This failure is then compounded by having only one site this week in Barrhaven - a great distance for many and not easily accessed by public transport. One store ran out while we were in line and the other store didn’t get their kits until the end of the day (hours after we gave up waiting outside in the cold). Big time fail for Ottawa that we observed first hand at two LCBO outlets on Friday. Big time chaos trying to sign up and big chaos at some of the booster locations!Īfter extreme pressure from health-care professionals at all levels and the public he worked out his confusion of apples and bananas and determined that yes rapid test kits should go out to everyone real quick. With little advance planning he decided to drop the age from 70 to 50 then a week later to 18. The premier has failed the people in Ottawa, a city of one million, during the latest phase of the pandemic by promising big with the availability of booster shots and rapid test kits. The health-care system would not have the capacity to deal with even a small percentage of the growing active cases even if the situation becomes half as bad as the projections. Ontario already experienced the strain on healthcare resources during the third wave. Unless other shots are significantly better at protecting against hospitalization, we face a situation where millions of people in Ontario are at risk. That implies 3 in 10 vaccinated people infected may need hospital care. Pfizer is said to be only 70% effective against hospitalization. Ontario hit over 3,000 cases Friday and is expected to reach 10,000 cases a day by January. The case numbers are skyrocketing day by day. We are overdue for more serious restrictions in Ontario. Photo by NICK LACHANCE / REUTERS Article content Letter-writer Abdurahman Ibrahim says we can't vaccinate our way out of this surge of COVID cases. Join the conversation Rashaun Robinson, 11, receives his first vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Scarborough on December 10, 2021. National Capital Region's Top Employers.
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