Science Shows the Way

Ted Doleman | May 19, 2021

Please let Science guide us in this pandemic and let adults make decisions for themselves.

We are seeing many Provincial governments stop offering the AstraZeneca vaccine and for me we again are ignoring science and letting politics and “perception” guide us in this pandemic. If we assume that one in 25000 get a blood clot, heck let’s assume they die. If the 25000 Canadians that have died so far from Covid had one shot of AZ before they were exposed to covid then one, yes one, would have died from the shot, none would have died from covid. Further to this, if the 1.31 million Canadians who have caught covid so far had had one shot 4 weeks before they were exposed 52 would have died from blood clots versus the 24000 so far from covid. Many of you will say “I don’t care, I still don’t want it”. That’s your choice, the people who understand odds and science have been denied that choice as hundreds of thousands of AZ doses show up. It is even worse if people like me are forced to take an MRNA vaccine for our second dose later rather than one of those available AZ ones now. That means one more Canadian will be forced to wait for an MRNA vaccine because I’m not given a choice and I will have to spend the next two years wondering why we elected these clowns. Let all the adults who want AZ for their first shot to take it as they know it is 5000 times more likely that covid will kill them, and if there is some left over I, and many others, will take it as our second shot. 

Ted Doleman