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Maybe the better question you should be asking is whether a simple majority (50%) is enough to justify drastic and extreme countermeasures mandated by the gover

Maybe the better question you should be asking is whether a simple majority (50%) is enough to justify drastic and extreme countermeasures mandated by the government, two years into a pandemic, with no end in sight. You might think this is a perfectly reasonable and responsible thing to do, but half of your neighbors strongly disagree. Now that vaccines, testing, and masks are widely available, does the government have a right to continue interfering in people's lives? If so, when does it end?

Tiktaalik 5y ago
There's really been nothing drastic or extreme about Canadian health mandates at all (I had a lovely dinner at a restaurant last night) and health officials have been telegraphing that the end is in sight for weeks before this protest even started. Right now the hospitals continue to be overloaded and so long as that is the case the government's health officials absolutely have a right to limit risky activities that are likely to explode the amount of people going to the hospital. If governments recklessly open up here the system could fall apart. Already Alberta and Saskatchewan have conceded to the protestors and are winding down health measures so we'll see what happens. I hope the worst fears don't come to realization.
- alexandre_m 5y ago
  > Right now the hospitals continue to be overloaded and so long as that is the case the government's health officials absolutely have a right to limit risky activities that are likely to explode the amount of people going to the hospital. The hospitals here in Quebec have been overloaded and badly managed ever since I was of age to vote, and that's more than 20 years ago. Most hospitals here have been operating above 100% capacity (you can find this information btw) for years. Waiting time in ER are crazy and the time to see a doctor have been reported to take in average 15 hours and up to 20 hours (pre-covid data in 2019) [1]. God forbid if you need to be hospitalized, as it can reach 24-48 hours. Firing nurses over COVID measures before Christmas certainly didn't help, which is worth pointing out. The politicians are trying to shift the blame of the bad healthcare systems happening under their watch to COVID. [1]: https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/2fe607e4-1054-4f10-9f56-703e28065245__7C___0.html https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/2fe607e4-1054-4f10-9f56-703...

Tiktaalik 5y ago

There's really been nothing drastic or extreme about Canadian health mandates at all (I had a lovely dinner at a restaurant last night) and health officials have been telegraphing that the end is in sight for weeks before this protest even started. Right now the hospitals continue to be overloaded and so long as that is the case the government's health officials absolutely have a right to limit risky activities that are likely to explode the amount of people going to the hospital. If governments recklessly open up here the system could fall apart. Already Alberta and Saskatchewan have conceded to the protestors and are winding down health measures so we'll see what happens. I hope the worst fears don't come to realization.

alexandre_m 5y ago
> Right now the hospitals continue to be overloaded and so long as that is the case the government's health officials absolutely have a right to limit risky activities that are likely to explode the amount of people going to the hospital. The hospitals here in Quebec have been overloaded and badly managed ever since I was of age to vote, and that's more than 20 years ago. Most hospitals here have been operating above 100% capacity (you can find this information btw) for years. Waiting time in ER are crazy and the time to see a doctor have been reported to take in average 15 hours and up to 20 hours (pre-covid data in 2019) [1]. God forbid if you need to be hospitalized, as it can reach 24-48 hours. Firing nurses over COVID measures before Christmas certainly didn't help, which is worth pointing out. The politicians are trying to shift the blame of the bad healthcare systems happening under their watch to COVID. [1]: https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/2fe607e4-1054-4f10-9f56-703e28065245__7C___0.html https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/2fe607e4-1054-4f10-9f56-703...