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I agree with this and I generally support their cause. But you don’t have the right to shut down commerce and affect citizens ability to move across a border.
by listless 5y ago
I agree with this and I generally support their cause. But you don’t have the right to shut down commerce and affect citizens ability to move across a border. IMO they have let this go on far too long.
- swader999 5y agoYet this is exactly what was being done to these truckers prior to their actions.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoIsn’t that also the US side policy? That the United States demands that Canadian truckers also be vaccinated?
- swader999 5y agoYes but I don't see how that changes anything.
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoWhat I am pointing out is that it’s weird to protest Canada for having policies that limit the employment of unvaccinated truckers when it’s the Americans who had the vaccine mandates first.
- swader999 5y agoThe timing on our side was likely influenced by the election call in September this year.
- mostertoaster 5y agoAnd watch you’ll see mandates dropping in states where midterm elections are coming up for folks, cuz the mandates are stupid and people pretend to like them to impress the other people pretending to like them, but nearly everyone just wants to leave clown world.
- ipaddr 5y agoTrudeau lobbied Biden for them. And in the works was a mandate not allowing unvaxxed to cross provincial borders carrying goods.
- inter_netuser 5y agoGovt literally banned 1) commerce 2) restricted citizens access through borders Europe is opening up. I guess Science different in Canada.
- slothtrop 5y agoCanada was already on track to open up. It follows Europe. People are already quipping about protestors wanting to take credit by likening it to protesting the darkness at midnight and claiming victory at 6 am.
- swader999 5y agoI too don't believe that the protests should get all the credit. But its not Gov following science, at best it's Gov following sentiment. People are right fed up of the overreach and want no more rules around masks, passports and lockdowns. There's no more tolerating restrictions for something that's a minor cold, can be vaccinated against if you are worried or early treated with antiviral using both new and repurposed drugs.
- slothtrop 5y agoThe govt is following advice from scientific advisors. People don't seem to appreciate that much of the weighting for these decisions have to do with hospital capacity, and also that decisions don't shift at a drop of a hat. Your notion of following "sentiment" is complete projection rooted in discontent. It has no basis in reality, and you have fuck all to back it up. The restrictions have already been poised to be lifted on the strength of said advice. This was already on the horizon and one can only imagine that protestors purposefully decided to move on this on the tail end of these policies.
- listenallyall 5y agoThe government is restricting border crossings -- the protesters are seeking free access to cross!