Why do truckers have vaccine mandates? They are sitting alone in a truck 99% of the time...
We have one of the worlds highest vaccination rates, and where rates are highest, the rules constantly get more strict. Don't think for a second Canadian politicians are making these (illegal) rules because of public health. Long ago, Canadians have voluntarily complied with all advice in high enough percentages that the rest is is meaningless.
Many have been feed partial truths and political leaders have used this to deflect blame and place it on a minority population. The smaller the minority the harsher the treatment.
Well, anti-vax people ARE part of the problem why things are still locked down as anti-vax people are currently taking up most of the critical hospital capacity.
> Those people need to be punished some believe.
From my personal experience, on the anti-vax side we have a wife who watched her husband die from Covid but still won't get herself OR HER SON the vaccine.
If we change the words from Republican Trumper to Christian Scientist, suddenly the exact same people think it's okay to throw people in jail for these kinds of beliefs.
At this point, Omicron is solving our anti-vax problem. I feel sorry for those who can't get vaccinated. I've had Covid before vaccines (that sucked and continues to suck in many ways) and I got vaccinated as well. But I, personally, can't do anything more.
At this point it looks like by the end of February, Omicron will have burned through everybody, and we can get back to normal.
And so it goes.
The examples you share are not really relevant to that discussion
And with the Confederate, US, Trump, ... paraphernalia in the progression, they're just the same as the folks down south who thought 1/6 was a tour group.
Forgot. There's a whole lot of vaccines that don't bother people, such as getting kids into school, traveling to certain parts of the world, working in certain fields, etc. And when they complain about the mRNA vaccines, they're not pointing out that the various alternatives (traditional and novel) aren't their choice - they just lump them all together and complain.
And for those interested in googling, check out the responses of politicians when the Truckers screw up transport vs. what happened when the First Nations did. And they had similar complaints.
All people crossing the US-Canada border have vaccine mandates. The bigger question is why have truckers been exempt up until now. Well, it's obvious, we have a logistics crisis. But we've discovered that most people will get vaccinated to save their jobs, so there's not much worry. We'll lose very few truckers and those can take up non-border crossing routes.
Anyway, most of the exemptions for many essential workers classes expire tomorrow.
And if that doesn't work, maybe we can threaten to take their children away, or to put them in camps. Most would comply when faced with that sort of coercion, so there's not much worry...
It’s not the 70% of the time they are alone, it’s the time at load/unload, truck stops along the way, and the like.
Install procedures around those stops then. Problem solved.
This constant fearmongering and coercion by the state is the real problem right now. For some reason it gets the majority of the population to cower up into obeisance, and the rest who are more independent thinking and less fearful of death, who are willing to die for what they believe in, end up getting bludgeoned by the fear-ridden vaccinated population who are supposedly already protected by their vaccines and their many boosters.
I just don't get it. People who are protected are protected. People who are willing to die for what they believe in are allowed to both fight and to die for what they believe in. This is great, lets not put in a mandate for it. That's not creeping into authoritarianism, it is authoritarianism.
I say let the truckies keep fighting for what they believe in, they are braver than the vaccinated mass. And if the vaccinated mass want to hurl vaccines at them then let them. But don't let the state mandate people to inject chemicals developed by the state.
Your suggestion sounds sensible: as this is about unvaccinated Canadian drivers returning from the US, I am sure Canada will implement your solution at all the truck stops in the USA.
I mean, Canada has already approved Covid positive doctors going back to work immediately including treating patients.
And they can mix positive and negative patients in the same ward.
It’s pretty clear the health authorities aren’t that concerned about spreading covid.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-hospitals-can-put-covid-positive-a...
Source?
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-may-allow-some-covid-positive-heal...
https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2022/01/17/california-allo...
Am I missing something?
The vaccine vastly reduces rates where people end up having to be hospitalized, and hospitalization is expensive and bad.
Shouldn't be a problem in a free market. Supply will increase in response to increased demand and prices will adjust accordingly in the interim. It will be fine. Not the government's job to micro manage this stuff, especially by trampling on fundamental individual rights.