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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8495276" data-attributes="member: 72555">I tasted the vaccine rainbow before Christmas.  AZ first, Pfizer in July, then a Moderna grey market booster in December.US/Canada border had been open with no testing for short trips, and Ontario wasn't giving boosters to under 50s yet, and Omicron was coming.So we drove a few hours into USA towards a walmart that had booster doses.  Stopped before getting there because called a pharmacy in a small town we where driving through, and they found our story interesting enough they said we could walk in between scheduled doses.Turns out NYS system requires a US address.  So I gave him one from a relative who lived in the USA (and told them that was what I was doing).  It is plausible pharmacies in NYS where not supposed to vaccinate non-americans, but instead send them to state clinics.  Hence grey market.Since then vaccine hunger games took off.  Ontario in response to Omicron opened boosters up to age 18+ and 3 months after 2nd shot.  Just before christmas.  And closed 72 hour border crossing relaxed testing rules.So "vaccine hunters canada" is again a thing.  Provincial system is overloaded, pharmacies use a mix of disconnected scheduling systems and walk ins, everyone is cancelling vacations, etc.What a mess.Testing is overwealmed; restricted to high risk and healthcare workers and the like.  Everyone else told to treat symptoms as reason to isolate.  Contact tracing is busted; case at kid's school got a form letter emailed to kids parents saying what class and what recess group sent like 24 hours later.   Large events with exposure are posted on FB pages.Number of shots per week has exceeded height of first shot blitz.  Number of cases is also record high, despite lack of testing capacity.Rapid tests are being supplied, in theory, but through shambolic means.  I did manage to order a bunch pre omicron that just arrived; so I can use them if we get sniffles.Local health unit leaving bars open but added capacity limits to toboggon hills.  ?!?!?!Omicron looks like it will infect everyone, and it gives immunity to other strains (they are wiped out, not out competed, when it spreads).  At this point we can hope a combination of it being milder and vaccines and previous infections rolls boxcars and it doen't give us megadeaths.Merry Christmas.</blockquote>

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