Justin Trudeau is still pushing people to get vaccinated. He is particularly pushing parents to vaccinate their kids.
Which leaves me wondering: Have none of the people around Justin Trudeau informed him of the science of vaccination? Or does Justin understand the science, but Our Prime Minister puts political expediency above the wellbeing of Canadians?
The dirty little secret of vaccination is clearly revealed in these three graphs from the Government of Alberta:
Yes, from three weeks after the date a person was vaccinated, vaccination gave several months of reasonably good protection against COVID variants previous to Omicron - that’s the large, nearly empty section on the right of all three graphs.
But look what happens in those first three weeks after someone receives receives their first dose of vaccine: their risk of catching COVID, their risk of hospitalization, and their risk of dying all go through the roof - that’s the big, colourful spike on the left of all three graphs, peaking just a few days after the person got vaccinated.
Omicron is all around us at the moment. If you get vaccinated now, that will send your already high risk of being infected with Omicron into the stratosphere. Ditto if you vaccinate your child. That's what the data from the Government of Alberta tells us very clearly.
Omicron is mild enough that neither of you is likely to die. There is some chance you or your child could end up in hospital though, which would be scary, and make the problem of overwhelmed hospitals even worse.
So here we have Canada's Prime Minister, actively encouraging Canadians to do something which will increase the overcrowding in Canada's hospitals, maybe even kill some people.
Perhaps our Prime Minister is ignorant of the science. Perhaps his advisers are clueless. That would be awful, but perhaps forgivable.
There is another, darker possibility. Perhaps Justin Trudeau has figured out that the vaccines have failed, and he doesn't want to carry the can for that failure. Perhaps he's desperately trying to blame the unvaccinated for the Omicron wave simply because he thinks he can get away with doing so.
He knows that any adult or child who gets infected or sick with Omicron in the three weeks after they get vaccinated will be listed on official government statistics as 'unvaccinated.' That will help his narrative if he can convince the unvaccinated to get vaccinated and they immediately fall sick: Look, a pandemic of the unvaccinated!
If that's Justin Trudeau's intent in pushing Canadians to vaccinate their kids in the middle of the Omicron wave, our Prime Minister is a truly scary sociopath - the Canadian version of Hannibal Lector.
It is true that that's probably the only way Justin can save his own skin right now - by convincing the unvaccinated to do something that will increase their chance of getting infected and/or sick with Omicron.
Without that, the data looks awful for the "blame the unvaccinated" narrative. Like this graph from the Government of Ontario, which shows the fully vaccinated are more likely to catch Omicron than the partially vaccinated or the unvaccinated:
I sincerely hope our Prime Minister is just ignorant of the science. It would be less scary than thinking the man fully understands the consequences of his actions, and doesn't care.
I suspect that people don't read the graphs or understand them. you would be better describing them in more detail....