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This thing started because of the added restriction of being fully vaccinated to cross the US or Canadian border as a trucker.

• myrryr 5y ago
  Because they didn't want the truckers filling up the hospitals. Same reason as New Zealand having the mandates, it wasn't about trying to reduce spread, it was about trying to reduce the number of people who would end up in hospital. The vaccine vastly reduces rates where people end up having to be hospitalized, and hospitalization is expensive and bad.
  • perryizgr8 5y ago
    > want the truckers filling up the hospitals 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.
    • fooster 5y ago
      It is the government responsibility of course. Canada is not the US.
      • perryizgr8 5y ago
        Ah, looks like we found the root cause then :)