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Take the vaccine to schools
With so many vaccination appointments being missed, a large amount of vaccine available at this time, and a promise of Alberta being ‘open for the summer’ if only we get the vaccination numbers, it seems obvious to me to take vaccination clinics to the high schools and possibly junior high schools in June.
If parental permission is required for those who wish to be vaccinated, the appropriate forms could be distributed a few days before the date(s) of the clinic. Most high schools have 1,000 plus students. A lot of parents have to mobilize to make individual appointments and get their children to the appointments. Why not go to where these young people are already assembled.
Vaccinations in schools have been done for many other diseases for a very long time.
Donna Bolan, Calgary
Stampede recipe for disaster?
How to bake a fourth wave: Take one giddy politician, add one million humans – 70% partially vaccinated, 30% not, spice with COVID
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variants, stir in plenty of alcohol, cook slowly over 10 days. After one week, the dough will rise.
Generous portions will then be available at your nearest hospital.
No buy-in from some
Kenney’s reopening plan: How to describe it? Reckless, political, pandering, desperate, unscientific, and careless.
It is putting more lives at risk absolutely unnecessarily. Too much, too fast. With an efficacy rate of 30 per cent against the variants, with one shot the reopening plan seems mad.
I won’t be changing my ways.
Practical solutions needed to address aging seniors
Re: Aging with dignity, zest; Canada’s spending on seniors care has priorities inverted, May 22
The authors offer up the same solutions that have been proposed for the last 40 years, ever since the senior population explosion was predicted. I’m pretty sure the vast majority of us already stay in our own homes as long as possible with help from family, friends, and home care, etc. But when health issues become too many and too complex, we move to a facility. It would be impractical and outrageously expensive to provide this much care in our home communities, especially in the country. These communal sites provide 24/7 nursing care, friends, meals, exercising, outings, programs and activities to meet individual needs.
My husband (85) and I (90) have experienced this process of aging. I am tired of experts telling us what is best for us. Provincial governments have encouraged privatization over the years and contracting out and reduction of home care services. The pandemic has shown the many horrors this has created along with meagre pay and few benefits given to our real front-line aides.
Please, all you experts, direct your attention to monitoring and changing what we have to make better use of health funding.
Anne McIntyre, Calgary
Numbers tell the tale
Here are some stats from the internet regarding COVID deaths:
Australia – population 25.7 million (2021) with 910 deaths
Florida – population 21.6 million with 36,732 deaths
Texas – population 29.2 million with 51,572 deaths
Canada – population 38 million with 25,428 deaths
I wonder which government has done the best job?
Allen Case, Calgary
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