2 years ago, in a pandemic crisis context, if I were to hear health officials saying they are making a change due to an abundance of caution, I would assume they are ahead of the curve, they are over cautious, and they don’t want anyone to die. They’ve got this.
Today we hear the “abundance of caution” refrain every day. In the COVID-19 context, it means, we went ahead, we approved the vaccine, people have died. We are now pausing the vaccine, out of an abundance of caution.
Tell that to the families of the healthy young people who died from the vaccine.
Those are brown(ish) people in the Health Canada advertisement. I know it would be going too far to suggest they want the racialized folks to go first. So I won’t even mention it.