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Pete McMartin makes several salient and sobering points in his Tuesday column, most of which I agree with — with the exception of his first point, namely that Dr. Bonnie Henry being the first to take the vaccine was an ‘exasperating public relations gaffe’.
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Letters to The Sun, Feb. 20, 2021: Readers respond to Pete McMartin's 'Six thoughts of a year in COVID' Back to video
I feel that there was a lot of concern early on about the safety and the efficacy of the vaccine, and Henry — the most visible non-government COVID-19 authority in the province — wasn’t jumping the queue when she was vaccinated. She was leading by example. Henry getting the vaccine wasn’t akin to the captain on a sinking ship stepping first into a lifeboat — it was akin to Gen. Curtis Lemay stepping into the lead bomber on a dangerous mission that he had ordered his aircrews to fly.