BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a story titled 'Pfizer-BioNTech cutting back vaccine deliveries to Canada due to production issues' published on Jan. 15.
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The issue is neither the ruined economy nor overly strict lockdowns but the incompetence of the federal government who failed to close the borders to halt the disease’s arrival.
Equally at fault is the gross incompetence of the Doug Ford Ontario government who failed to consider inoculating everyday citizens in the crowded confines of epicentres like Toronto.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should’ve made arrangements with countries like India that produce their own vaccine for local and regional use. If we ordered from multiple sources, we might have secured enough to vaccinate several million people. Ford gambled on the idea that children do not spread the virus as easily as seniors, which led to multiple school infections.
A lockdown and curfew might prevent some infections, but arbitrarily selecting an exclusive club of vaccine recipients is reckless. With enough vaccine, we might have limited the skyrocketing GTA infection rates.
Christopher Mansour
Barrie
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