I t was all said in nearly the same thought. On Tuesday, viewers from across the province tuned in to the daily COVID briefing to hear the province’s top doctor deliver the grim news that the pandemic that had already killed 67 Nova Scotians had unflinchingly claimed two more lives. Barely missing a beat (and perhaps that was the problem), Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health, whose leadership around COVID-19 has largely been hailed as an exemplar to uphold across the country, uttered a sentence that will be living in my head rent-free until every Nova Scotian—and, for that matter, every Canadian—has received all doses of whichever vaccine they end up receiving.