by Premier Blaine Higgs says government has assembled a “swat team” to find new ways to reach New Brunswickers who haven’t been vaccinated, with the aim to search out the under 40 crowd and make shots more accessible.
Higgs went as far on Tuesday as to suggest partnerships with Tim Hortons or other restaurants could be in the works.
The comments came a day after he mused about COVID-19 vaccines on ice-cream trucks.
He again suggested that freezer trucks just may be the way to get the shot to the last few thousand New Brunswickers needed to get the vaccine rollout past a key milestone of 75 per cent uptake.
“Looking to be creative,” Higgs said on Tuesday, “We’ve had businesses connect with us and we have seen that in different municipalities with businesses looking for creative ways to get people vaccinated.
“I know there’s a big lineup at Parle Beach and you say ‘well, if you were there with a vaccines and an ice-cream you’d probably get people signed up on the way to the beach.’”
While more than 75 percent of New Brunswickers in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s all have a first shot, just over 51 percent of 20-year-olds and 57 per cent of 30-year-olds have been vaccinated.
Meanwhile, roughly 45 per cent of New Brunswickers have a first shot.
Higgs say efforts to decide what would work best are actively being sought.
“We have kind of put a swat team together to look at how we can move into different communities, maybe with a refrigerated truck, I think there’s more flexibility there with Pfizer,” Higgs said.
Health Canada recommended last month that the Provinces can now store the Pfizer vaccine at refrigerator temperatures for up to one month creating, new opportunities.
“We just want to be more creative in meeting people where they are, asking people if you’re out with a group whether they’ve been vaccinated and leading them to the nearest clinic,” Higgs said.
“If we had trucks in communities where people are gathering I just believe people would do their part.”
Higgs showed particular interest in partnering with businesses.
He referenced Big Axe Brewery in Nackawic that has partnered with the Fredericton Nissan car dealership to offer a free beer over the weekend to anyone who shows up with a vaccine certificate.
He revealed that the province has at least had preliminary talks with Tim Hortons, suggesting it could play an eventual role in every province.
“They’re willing to participate,” Higgs said.
The Premier’s words come amid calls for new ways to reach New Brunswickers.
New Brunswick’s two health authorities have started offering walk-in clinics, doing away with the need for people to register for the shot. Other provinces have deployed pop up clinics in neighborhoods with access challenges.
Liberal MLA, Gary Arseneault has called for clinics in schools.
“Absolutely, we are looking at how we can go to schools,” Higgs said on Tuesday.
But there is a line as to how far New Brunswickers will go.
Several U.S. states are rolling out 5 million dollar cash lotteries as incentives for Americans to get vaccinated where those who get the shot are entered into a draw.
Ohio’s “Vax-A-Million” sparked a 45 per cent spike in vaccinations, according to the state’s health department. Kentucky’s “Shot at a Million” had similar success.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that 12 to 17-year-olds get a first dose will be entered in a raffle to win a full scholarship at a New York public university.
In Illinois, people can get free tickets to the Six Flags Amusement Park.
West Virginia has a chance to win a hunting rifles or shotguns.
Higgs is ruling anything like that out. “As far as someone thinking we’re going to offer cash incentives to get a free vaccine, that won’t be the case,” he said.
By Adam Huras – Parliament Hill
originally printed June 8, 2021. reprinted without permission.
SWAT team for vaxx .. wow… maybe they could just make a fun video about getting vaxxed and getting safe and stuff like Silly Robbie.. that should probably catch all the non-compliant ones.
Not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DfiXxLQIBo&ab_channel=SillyRobbie
Boy that ol’ boomer is such a cocky f*ck… nothing like doubling-down eh Higgs? “Do our part” .. what a laugh… he probably has early onset of dementia… boomers are a hazard to our health.
When he isn’t promoting vaxx and testing he’s grabbing more land to lock up in conservation trusts for his pals…. what a pain in the arse that old fraud is. They’re all puppets for Agenda 2030 techncracy – there is not a pinch of shit between any of these political minions now.
Shared at the blogger – good article for New Brunswickers to ponder and know their enemy.
Dude.. its over… your scam is finished.
Higgs the cuck sit down and shut up.
I read this one out loud for the dinner table crew in New Brunswick here.
The push for vaxx is strong in New Brunswick because its a very compliant culture.
My concern is that people are making an informed decision they are only getting vaxxed because they want to be able to travel. We’ve allowed our government to pull another ‘divide and conquer’ manoeuvre and will create with this a hated minority of ‘unvaxxed’ people with zero privileges in the coming years… so to all the people saying oh just take the vaxx I look forward to the day you have to take a weekly anal covid swab for your employers.. I’ll chuckle from my FEMA camp re-education cot – hopefully the hair lice and gruel won’t be too awful. I will not comply.
I read this one out loud for the dinner table crew in New Brunswick here.
The push for vaxx is strong in New Brunswick because its a very compliant culture.
My concern is that people are not making an informed decision they are only getting vaxxed because they want to be able to travel. We’ve allowed our government to pull another ‘divide and conquer’ manoeuvre and will create with this a hated minority of ‘unvaxxed’ people with zero privileges in the coming years… so to all the people saying oh just take the vaxx I look forward to the day you have to take a weekly anal covid swab for your employers.. I’ll chuckle from my FEMA camp re-education cot – hopefully the hair lice and gruel won’t be too awful. I will not comply.
I have spent 16 months looking into this Plandemic. The recovery rate for this virus is well over 99%for the majority of ppl unless severely compromised. Not once in 16 months has the govt or the health officials recommended therapeutic alternatives which are available I.e HCQ, Ivermectin, Vit C/D on top of eating a healthy clean diet. So with that in mind as an informed individual I state that the govt has no authority to tell a person to take or push an experimental mRNA injection that is not even classified as a true vaccine which is in direct violation of the 1949 Nuremberg code. That being said using coercion to force ppl to take an unproven injection which uses humans as trial subjects is nothing short of crimes against humanity.
Exactly, exactly, exactly!!! I have a functional medicine doctor. The day after the lockdowns were announced in March 2020, she sent an email to all her patients with a list of vitamins and minerals to take, along with remove sugar, exercise and fresh air daily, 7 to 8 hours of sleep and remove any processed foods from diets. How about that?! A doctor that cares and is proactive. My husband and I have been following her advice from the beginning (we had the sleep and no processed foods already handled). We’ve been healthy despite being in contact with people testing positive. We don’t have “health”care…we have “pharma” care – whatever works for them. Healthy people don’t make good financial sense, as Dr. Andrew Saul says.