Politics is mixed up with economic concerns and governments move toward where money is to be made. Unfortunately there was no money to be made when vaccinations were supposed to be injected. That is what the vaccination campaign is about but politicians would rather pump the media with excuses that all of sudden the population woke up to a greater need. The truth of the matter is there have been some pretty big faults of which the political system is party to. They had to make enough vaccine that would be readily available to the public. It also had to provide for the means of of the vaccine to get out to the public and work out an efficient means of injecting it.

As a result hundreds in lines have been turned away, people are skipping the system because they know someone and if you  are lucky to be a certain hockey player, you are on the top of the high risk list. Mothers of very young children can only have them vaccinated and then they will have to come back with their older siblings. This means the parent is greatly inconvenienced by having to make more than one trip when they would continue being exposed to the virus.

True pandemics don’t happen every day but the responsibility lies with the government if it wants to hold back vaccines when it could have concentrated on meeting deadlines and working out logistics for a given population. One marvels at how long it took bureaucrats to work out a coupon system which would get people to come back at a given hour instead of having to wait a whole day and then get turned away.

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As the drama unfolds more bad news will hit the headlines as did the lack of a sufficient number of vaccine bottles by the plant which was supposed to provide them. So there may have been enough vaccine but there would not have been a means to get that out without a sufficient amount of containers.

It looks like we are still at the beginning phase of understanding how to deploy people in centers to make sure that priority cases go first and that injections be made to larger centers when they are given to outlying areas so as to keep people from crowding into those smaller centers.