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Nearly 90% of Canadians received a vaccination, over 80% got the two most-important shots. Over 55% also boosted. The vast majority of Canadians are sensible p

Nearly 90% of Canadians received a vaccination, over 80% got the two most-important shots. Over 55% also boosted. The vast majority of Canadians are sensible people. The media over-represented the protests. The local and provincial governments were weak and the police, negligent.

jmyeet 4y ago
> The vast majority of Canadians are sensible people. This agrees with my point. Most of the money funding the protests was American not Canadian. > The media over-represented the protests. There was a lot of localized disruption. It fit into a wider issue of vaccination opposition. Seizure of protest funds is a story (agree with it or not). Whether it would spread to the US was a legitimate angle. So even though I disagree with the protests it was certainly newsworthy IMHO. > ... and the police, negligent. Here I will disagreee. The police and these protesters were largely the same people. This wasn't negligence. This was tacit approval leading to deliberate inaction. In the US, dying from Covid, even after having refused an available vaccine, was counted as a death in the line of duty in US statistics. This then fed into a narrative that police work was dangerous.