“no, we are not going to do it – simple as that,” ford said when asked about vaccination certificates. “we are not going to have a split society.”
it doesn’t make sense because both actions would not only offer ontarians more protection, but make it easier for businesses to fully reopen. besides, we already have a split society. as of thursday, 73 per cent of ontarians have been fully vaccinated, but 27 per cent have not .
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if the government could assure ontarians that they are safe from contact with the unvaccinated, there would be no problem. but the truth is, it can’t. covid-19 is now being labelled the pandemic of the unvaccinated for good reason. they are the ones fuelling the surge .
government figures released tuesday show that nearly 80 per cent of new cases reported were from the unvaccinated and partially vaccinated .
ford simply cannot ignore the threat posed by the unvaccinated. consider this: “covid-19 certificates may have a practical short-term utility for supporting and maintaining economic and societal reopening… further, given the anticipated seasonality of sars-cov-2 as well as the possibility of additional variants of concern, establishing the infrastructure of covid-19 vaccine certification may be useful if public health measures need to be introduced during potential future waves,” says the ontario covid-19 science advisory table.