Get ready for a dose of vaccine populism

So yeah, it’s possible populism will run rampant this year, which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. There’s just no way to immunize the population against its emotional appeal.

Poorer countries are complaining that richer countries are hoarding the vaccines for themselves, a situation which has led Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, pictured, to complain that 'vaccine nationalism hurts us all and is self-defeating.'Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

January 27, 2021

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Populist politician Donald Trump may no longer be in power, but that doesn’t mean populist tactics will suddenly become unfashionable. Like it or not, populism is to politics what fighting is to hockey—the two just naturally go together. Indeed, even the COVID vaccine rollout,...

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