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Here's my quick model updated with the weekend's vaccination numbers. The province is up about 4,150 first doses and 1,250 second doses since the $100 incentives came in. There's about $6.6 million now owed people for these doses since the start of the incentive program, so we're up to $782 per new first dose, and $2,675 per new second dose. (BC had 35,000 more vaccine doses the 9 days after the passport announcement than in the 9 days before, for a cost of $0.)
Something that is frustrating and I don't think has helped is the media coverage of things like protests. I saw a report that estimated a thousand people protested on Sunday. You know what 1,755 people did on Sunday? Got their first dose of vaccine (way late, but welcome to the party, guys.) The last day a thousand people didn't get a first dose of vaccine was February 21, when it was just being rolled out. Thousands of people take a real, definite, pro-vaccination stance every single day and it's not mentioned. Even a month ago when the ICUs had free space, vaccine mandates had massive, almost 80% support in Alberta, but the media has spent a huge chunk of their time talking to and about these fringe lunatics, elevating and making their position seem more prominent.
Even people on this board have pushed back on the reintroduction of things like mask mandates when the cases began to rise again after Stampede, saying that there would be protests. If we aren't willing to do the right thing because of a few lunatics protesting, then Deena Hinshaw isn't the chief medical officer of health, Kevin J. Johnson (and others of similar intellect) is. As it is, right now it seems that there are a couple of dozen rural UCP caucus members who are the de facto chief medical officer.