Not sure if you've guys heard, but Canada's become a third-world nation. Years of getting it easy, having a huge-ass ecological footprint, and not getting shit for it because we're quieter than Americans, are finally catching up to us, and now it looks like we are no longer number two or three or eight or whatever we were. We're the only G20 nation that's a COVAX recipient, rather than a donor (rubbing elbows with the likes of North Korea, Somalia, and Haiti), because we lack the domestic capability to produce our own vaccines, and our shipments from the EU are getting repeatedly delayed.
The United States is now immunizing more people in a single day than Canada has managed to vaccinate since our programme began.
We used to have domestic vaccine production facilities and be a leader in medicine and biotechnology, I hear. That was mostly publicly funded university research programmes that got sold off to international private interests.
So, no partying for the Disco King until 2022, probably. Greetings from Canistan.
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