Looks like they managed to get a 97% vaccination rate, but found that not good enough, so they abandoned the mandate and permanently sacrificed everyone’s credibility but especially their own, whereas places without a mandate usually end up far lower. So the news here is that Quebec defected and burned the commons?
Even assuming we live in a world where there is a reasonable hope of eradicating covid with the vaccines that we have, it still wouldn’t be enough to simply rely on a gentleman’s agreement for various parties to implement mandates. Different parties have different incentives, and even dictatorships have to spend political capital to impose policy. And if the imposed policy turns out to be much less effective than promised, there is even less political capital to impose the next policy.
Plus the 3% of holdouts (14 thousand in absolute numbers) are critically important , apparently they cannot afford to lose anyone at all. Which is very strange. There are less than 9 million people in Quebec and according to their numbers, 420 thousand are employed in healthcare which is 10% of their employed population.
Looks like they managed to get a 97% vaccination rate, but found that not good enough, so they abandoned the mandate and permanently sacrificed everyone’s credibility but especially their own, whereas places without a mandate usually end up far lower. So the news here is that Quebec defected and burned the commons?
Even assuming we live in a world where there is a reasonable hope of eradicating covid with the vaccines that we have, it still wouldn’t be enough to simply rely on a gentleman’s agreement for various parties to implement mandates. Different parties have different incentives, and even dictatorships have to spend political capital to impose policy. And if the imposed policy turns out to be much less effective than promised, there is even less political capital to impose the next policy.
Plus the 3% of holdouts (14 thousand in absolute numbers) are critically important , apparently they cannot afford to lose anyone at all. Which is very strange. There are less than 9 million people in Quebec and according to their numbers, 420 thousand are employed in healthcare which is 10% of their employed population.