On this quiet Sunday, millions of Canadians are wondering when they might be able to get a vaccination against C-19. In Ontario, the municipalities have been given the responsibility for organizing this job. Places like Hamilton and Peel Region will begin injecting the general public Monday starting with citizens 80 and over. People in Toronto are waiting to hear. It’s a big City with more people. That could translate into a long wait.
Single-shot vaccine
Late last week the US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. It’s still awaiting approval from Ottawa for use here. The J&J jab is a single shot serum that is not quite as effective against transmission of the virus. But when it failed to reject the virus it did greatly reduce the symptoms and slashed the number of deaths to zero for those who got it. That sounds okay.
Has anyone caught C-19 from a grocery bag?
A small but irksome peculiarity of the pandemic in much of the first world is the complete rejection of the reusable grocery bag and the mad embrace of plastic bags. Why? At Loblaws, it appears unions have fought to save their members having to touch the once venerated reusable bag. Now, these former saviours of the environment are hardly worth spitting on. But things change. Remember a few months ago when reuseable bags weren’t even allowed in the stores? Now they are. Irrational you say.
