Although I'm not much of an anti-vaxxer anymore. I still question the vaccine mandates and even what are in those vaccines. And it's not just for COVID. It's for the rest of history. The COVID vaccine wasn't the only one the cause casualties. There were even worse vaccines people were blackmailed to take.
Not an anti-vaxxer insomuch as I'm pro-choice.
There's a few ways you can look at how Canada managed its covid responses, but one which never sat well with me was the coersion in pushing people to vax.
An experimental vaccine, with potential life changing effects, should always be the users choice. I kept seeing goal posts changed from 'we need the vaccine to stop you from getting sick, period' to 'it limits transmission' to 'it will make you feel a bit less sick when you get covid'.
I do think the chances of complications from the vaccine are less than the chance of complications from getting covid- but it still should have been
your choice. I know people who never got covid for the first 2 years, and didn't get the vaccine, for example. Why force them to gamble?
I hated how disingenuous the liberals were about all this. You don't have to get the vaccine, its your choice, buuuuuuuut- if you don't get it, you
caaaaaant work. Thats coercion on the working poor, 100%. I just hope people never forget the indignity of that pandemic, and government talking down on its citizens and trying to constantly gaslight them.
To add insult to injury, we had something like 80% of people enthusiastically getting the vax. Should have been good enough, right? Trudeau's government just had the gall to want to look better internationally and push for that 100% embrace, regardless of how it spat on citizen's rights. Many such cases, and it blew up in his face