Thoughts on the Trucker Convoy?

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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Israel's death rate is incredibly low. Especially when I look at other countries who had leaders downplay the virus and caused more death (i.e Bolsonaro, Modi & Trump). So it's not a "gotcha". The vaccines have done their job and prevented the absolute worst case scenarios from playing up again.

But 2 years of listening to the antivax is too much. Especially as all these ICU treatments and delayed surgeries cost money. I'm absolutely in favor of more Quebec-like measures and enforcing a tax on the unvaccinated to cover these expenses. Just as how we already have taxes on cigarettes and alcohol.

[–]lokke767 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is lower than in the US and a bit lower than in Europe, yes, but not really exceptionally low. And it's identical right now to what it was during the first covid wave in 2020. So that does look like failure to me. I doubt we'd be having a black death-like scenario without the vax, which is what you are implying. The elderly are about 99% vaxxed in most of the developed world, and we are seeing similar death rates to when the rate was 0%. And that with "milder" omicron.

But go ahead and keep taking your infinite boosters, just don't force healthy young people to do it for no reason. Nobody is protesting against the right to vaccination, they just don't want to be denied citizenship and treated like cattle by their traitorous government.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The virus mutated. During the summer of 2021, they saw no deaths at all. Even though I can't speak too much about what life was like in Israel, I do know that during the same time in Canada, it was the unvaxxed who were driving up hospital cases right after we had our own success. And even to this day, they're disproportionately hurting our healthcare system.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/inside-an-icu-where-70-per-cent-of-covid-19-patients-are-unvaccinated-1.5738198

And that's enough evidence for me. Either get vaccinated, stay home, or get taxed for stealing a hospital bed from a much needier patient.