![]() ![]() For you to pick out that same simplified comparison and debunk it as not holding weight, indicates you not only missed the simplest point, but you went on to interpret further confusion as which is characteristic of the audience the health minister is trying to educate without any success. The comparison has limited arguments as you point out within that given simplicity. ![]() Comparing vaccination to life jackets, even seat belts may have been used to simplify the importance of a point. And then you have the vaccinated with same choices made. There are unvaccinated boaters with or without life jackets, and visa versa. Just say what the CPHO says, that you don’t know for sure. If critical thinking and questioning government decisions are now considered misinformation, so are your assumptions. Assumptions from a politician with no science or medical background are not helpful to anyone and neither is your scolding. Also, what evidence backs up the assumption that the higher number of cases in Igloolik are due to a low vaccination rate?Provide those stats GN. And where did they even get that comparison? Social media? It’s not based on scientific evidence. Comparing vaccines with seat belts and life jackets is very embarrassing for a leader in Health. There are some legitimate reasons for not getting vaccinated (medical, religious, trauma, lacking information, etc.). If they suffer a serious adverse event, there is no compensation for them. ![]() So if the vaccine is recalled, people can’t get unvaccinated. Adverse events are rare but do occur and are still not well understood but this continues to be monitored on a monthly basis (Health Canada website) to determine safety and efficacy. The vaccines are approved but with conditions to monitor safety and effectiveness of the vaccine (Health Canada and NACI website). If a life jacket harms you and you weren’t warned of any potential risks, you can get compensation from the company. Life jackets can be taken off after you put one on and if they are unsafe, they are recalled and you get a new life jacket. Vaccines cannot be compared to seatbelts or life jackets. They smoke incessantly and don’t give a hoot about sharing their air. On another note, I am fed up of the doorway stops at the Northmart and stores. There is such a lackadaisical attitude about social distancing and temporarily suspending close contact with others out of their households but also even picking up their relatives at the boarding home and visiting each other. However, in saying all this, I have found my peers who are educated, freely visiting their relatives and friends without much thought for infecting or infecting others. How many 40+ northeners know how the virus is spread? (the details that many of you online readers have read them) If you ask anyone out there, how it spreads, will not be able to explain. Meanwhile, any communication from Health is often written in Governmentese so whatever is being translated onto paper and reread is usually poorly conveyed. The rhetorics of the anti-vaxxers in the south have seeped into the churches of the north. Many 50-70 yr olds did have some schooling but minimal. ![]() He has not identified by name anyone who has spread misinformation.ĥ0+ churchgoers often are less educated about the science of medicine but rely on doctors if they get sick. 25 when he warned against the “dangerous” spread of misinformation about vaccines on social media and community radio. “Unfortunately Igloolik appears to be an example of that, based on what I’ve heard from community members, and it’s just really sad.” “When we have facts that are being provided, repeated and repeated, and there’s a lower uptake in certain communities, my feeling is that misinformation is a part of it,” he said. Health Minister John Main denounced the spread of vaccine misinformation in the territory during Tuesday’s COVID-19 news conference. Ivvalu isn’t the only Nunavut leader wading into the fight against COVID-19 misinformation. With a population of roughly 2,000 people, that means about five per cent of Igloolik’s population has tested positive for the virus. 1, there are 94 active COVID-19 cases in Igloolik. Schools and non-essential businesses are closed and travel is restricted. Igloolik has been under the strictest health restrictions in the territory since cases spiked there last month. ![]()
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