montrealgazette.com/news/national/Maxime Bernier of People's Party says he won't take the covid-19 vaccine
[While I can stomach Max's position on immigration (and certainly so-called climate change), and have noted he once misplaced a gov't briefcase with sensitive docs inside (besides being leader of a fringe party now), it's tougher to like his position on covid vaccines. If they were proven harmful in a significant number of cases, or if people (adults) were coerced to take them, that would be one thing. However, many people including Max don't seem to realize that the more people vaccinated, the less likely any one vaccinated person will get a disease. The sort of crude stats analysis I can offer as a layman should help doubters. Say a vaccine claims 95% effectiveness - impressive, but hardly close to airtight. Now, say A is vaccinated but B isn't, and B has, say, a 50% chance of getting covid - then A's chances of catching covid from B are 50% x 5% or 2.5%; still not that airtight. However, if B were also vaccinated then A's chances of getting covid from B are then only 5% x 5% or 0.25%. All that is without considering yet whether C, D, E... are vaccinated or not. So, Max (maybe unthinkingly) is being irresponsible by not encouraging people get vaccinated, at this stage, aside from any posturing and pandering that he's showing people have a right to abstain.]:
https://montrealgazette.com/news/nat...vid-19-vaccine
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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