Richard White
Senior Member
This will likely result in places like grocery stores closing. I know Loblaws MLG and Real Canadian Superstore in Scarborough have had more than a few cases recently.
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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)
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This will likely result in places like grocery stores closing. I know Loblaws MLG and Real Canadian Superstore in Scarborough have had more than a few cases recently.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Loblaws has, on its own, closed stores for a few days after an outbreak.
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The City Press Releases says 'exceptions can be made' for vital businesses - which could apply to a grocery if there were only one, I guess.
Richard White
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Real Canadian used to have cases every week but remained open. Even MLG had cases and still remained open.
I didn’t say they closed every store, but they did close some. I believe Longos did as well. This was back in the early days, however. I don’t recall it happening lately.
Videodrome
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Good news!
AlvinofDiaspar
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Honestly I am not sure why we have to run everything through SDM/Loblaws/Weston Company nowadays.
AoD
Northern Light
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Does Rexall have any 24 hour locations?
W. K. Lis
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Aren't most hospitals 24/7? Okay, some are not 24/7 because of budget restrictions.
picard102
Senior Member
Not sure why we wouldn't utilize a company so ubiquitous, and with the logistics in place already, to administer a critical vaccine.
zang
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This duopoly bulls#it is driving me nuts. Both Rexall and Shoppers sites are failing on a regular basis. On top of that, registering should mean being offering up empty spots to those signed up, right? Notsofast, optimistic one. People are resorting to calling a list of pharmacies to find one that has open appointments. Why are there blocks and blocks of open appointments, but almost no notifications going out about it? I signed up with local Rexall and Shoppers less than 20 minutes after the news went live about it opening up to 40+. Yet, I was hearing reports of a walk-in clinic in a Shoppers locally, no appointment needed. By the time I called, they were almost out of stock. WTMFH.
FFS. I've waited patiently for my turn. I watched the suuuuuper slow rollout for the octogenarians. Watched the seniors get theirs; the 55+ conspiracy theorists and vaccine shoppers shuck off the AZ vaccine for weeks, hearing of stock nearly going to waste because of it.
I watched as things like ADHD and Psoriasis are able to get someone a jab, but unless I have organ damage from my hereditary high blood pressure, no such luck for me!
I've watched as friends in low-density, single-family dwellings get theirs after being labeled a "hotspot", while our rental building on the same block and less than 30 feet from a Unity Health defined high risk zone gets denied because our postal code starts with the wrong FSA. It doesn't matter that our entire building maintenance and management staff (8 or so people, plus their families) are in self-isolation as two of them got diagnosed with Covid last week.
We see hundreds of thousands of doses being kept back as a "buffer" For what? Who knows; it doesn't appear to actually be for vaccinating people.
I hear Doug Ford on the weekend chide people for not being able to find a vaccine, like all Ontarians are drooling idiots incapable of filling in their own names.
Then he refuses help from the provincial government and claims (seemingly falsely) that we're gonna be short-changed AZ while runs and hides from the press.
We've left the vast majority of this AZ rollout in the hands of two half-assed, profit driven companies who have no actual interest in making people aware of their ability to get vaccinated. Now that it's my turn, the only appointment I've actually been able to successfully make online is for AUGUST.
AUGUST!
At this point, I want Doug Ford's head to roll. I really, really mean it.
They do.
This duopoly bulls#it is driving me nuts. Both Rexall and Shoppers sites are failing on a regular basis. On top of that, registering should mean being offering up empty spots to those signed up, right? Notsofast, optimistic one. People are resorting to calling a list of pharmacies to find one that has open appointments. Why are there blocks and blocks of open appointments, but almost no notifications going out about it? I signed up with local Rexall and Shoppers less than 20 minutes after the news went live about it opening up to 40+. Yet, I was hearing reports of a walk-in clinic in a Shoppers locally, no appointment needed. By the time I called, they were almost out of stock. WTMFH.
FFS. I've waited patiently for my turn. I watched the suuuuuper slow rollout for the octogenarians. Watched the seniors get theirs; the 55+ conspiracy theorists and vaccine shoppers shuck off the AZ vaccine for weeks, hearing of stock nearly going to waste because of it.
I watched as things like ADHD and Psoriasis are able to get someone a jab, but unless I have organ damage from my hereditary high blood pressure, no such luck for me!
I've watched as friends in low-density, single-family dwellings get theirs after being labeled a "hotspot", while our rental building on the same block and less than 30 feet from a Unity Health defined high risk zone gets denied because our postal code starts with the wrong FSA. It doesn't matter that our entire building maintenance and management staff (8 or so people, plus their families) are in self-isolation as two of them got diagnosed with Covid last week.
We see hundreds of thousands of doses being kept back as a "buffer" For what? Who knows; it doesn't appear to actually be for vaccinating people.
I hear Doug Ford on the weekend chide people for not being able to find a vaccine, like all Ontarians are drooling idiots incapable of filling in their own names.
Then he refuses help from the provincial government and claims (seemingly falsely) that we're gonna be short-changed AZ while runs and hides from the press.
We've left the vast majority of this AZ rollout in the hands of two half-assed, profit driven companies who have no actual interest in making people aware of their ability to get vaccinated. Now that it's my turn, the only appointment I've actually been able to successfully make online is for AUGUST.
AUGUST!
At this point, I want Doug Ford's head to roll. I really, really mean it.
zang
Senior Member
Because they're shady as all hell? What's the profit in it for them? Zip. FFS, just a few years ago they were found guilty of fixing bread prices!
Richard White
Senior Member
I don't care if they sell Narcotics to addicts under the table as long as I get vaccinated.