NUDGINGS: a journey into the unknown

Five days before the movie theatres were to open their doors for the first time in months, but with limited capacity, an industry advocate was saying that 50%wasn‘t good enough. They wanted it to be 100%! At no time did he thank the government for moving the reopening forward a few days, nor did he thanks all the people in the province who had made it possible by embracing vaccinations and following the other guidelines. I wondered what had happened saying those two simple words, ‘Thank you‘! Of course they wanted more, but surely what they got was worth something. I have noticed as this pandemic has dragged on, how little appreciation is shown for small or even larger gains.    People want it over, and things back to normal RIGHT NOW! There are very few ‘thank yous’ being heard on air,    but there are a lot of complaints. They seem to take it as being their right to get what they want and to get it NOW with no consideration as to ...

There is no doubt that this pandemic has brought with it lots of challenges. Here, in a first world nation, we have seen it hitting hardest those who are underprivileged, who have crowded living conditions, who work at minimum wage jobs (without sick days) to put food on the table for their families. Some areas like Toronto have targeted the people in these hot spots with pop-up clinics in order to get them vaccinated as soon as possible and curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus in these neighbourhoods. This has resulted in a higher percentage of vaccines being administered in these areas as compared to some of the more affluent ones,  where  it has brought down the number of new cases dramatically.  But then we have the luxury of having an adequate supply of vaccine arriving monthly.    What if we didn’t? What if we were like South Africa where a week or so ago only 2% of the health care workers had been vaccinated, where 3 million of their citizens over 6...