The truckers protest in Ottawa is out of hand

I am not being snarky here, but could it be that this is bothering you because you have not had to show proof of vaccines for your job before this? Many of us are used to having medical requirements, so this is just one more.

This is nothing new. Businesses have always had requirements for employees.


It's completely new.  MOST people never had to have a vaccine to get their jobs and now they are forcing it or lose the job that some have had for 20, 30 or 40 years. 

Just because that applies to you that doesn't mean it's universal.  Many health care jobs require the flu vaccine every year or masks, among other vaccines.

www2a.cdc.gov/vaccines/statevaccsApp/AdministrationbyVaccine.asp?Vaccinetmp=Influenza

www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/flu-vaccine-requirements-for-health-care-workers-in-hospitals-and-long-term-care-facilities/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

You are SO completely wrong about that.  People are losing their jobs for not being vaxed.  They are not being let into stores and restaurants if they are not vaxed.  They are being denied healthcare if they are not vaxed. They are being treated like crap if they are not vaxed.  And don't try to lecture me about keeping people safe with vaccines.  Turns out, the vaxes didn't work like they thought they would and everyone is still getting the virus despite the vaccines and masks.  It will always be like that.  They never eradicated the flu and they will never eradicate the covid.  People will have to learn to live with it just like we do with the flu.  

In the next month or so, all mandates will be lifted, probably largely because of protests like this.  All of a sudden, the virus won't matter any more, no more masks, no more vax cards to get into places, no more quarantining completely healthy people.  The virus just magically disappears once the mandates are stopped?  What a crock of crap that people had to go through this in the first place.  

THAT is what this protest is about. 

In Canada, the unvaxxed are not being denied access to stores or healthcare at all. 

If the mandates are lifted in a month, it will not be ignored. Our local hospital is still beyond capacity. My cousin with lung cancer couldn't be admitted for surgery in our home town.  They requested another centre and they didn't have the capacity to take him either due to covid.  They were able to take him in Niagara.  So there's that. 

Did you see the "press conference in Ottawa yesterday with the truckers demanding to take over the gov't in a coalition with the opposition parties? 🤣 The mayor of Ottawa said that it was like a Monty Python skit. 

GM and Ford canceling shifts because of the Ambassador Bridge backup.

Those fuckers need to be arrested and their vehicles towed off the bridge.

It's not bothering me because I don't work in the medical field anymore.  I've been out for several years.  I am bothered by the fact that this trickled down into folks being harassed for not wearing masks in public places and not being able to go to a store or movie without a mask.  And I will never be able to get over parents getting kicked off of airplanes because their 2-3 year old child would not keep a mask on.  There is SO MUCH wrong with that.  

But guess what.....now that the mandates will all be getting dropped, what was it all for in the first place?

Too bad. There are all kinds of requirements with teaching today that didn’t exist when I entered the profession. I can comply with them or find a different job. It’s that simple.

I really don’t know why some people think they’re more special than the rest of us. Historically, conservatives have been pro-business and in favor of letting businesses set requirements even if they hurt the worker. What has changed now?

The difference being that getting vaccinated is a choice, and being laid off is not.

You can’t send your children to school without them

Oh yes you can...

OMFG!

I was to PREVENT AS MUCH DEATH AS POSSIBLE DURING A PANDEMIC.

It was to help prevent the spread of Covid, as you know. People wearing masks have also been harassed, including in front of a school. Everyone is tired of it, and everyone is hoping that life will soon go back to normal.

Not in WV. No exemptions for anything other than medical reasons. There is no option to be exempted for religious reasons. I believe there is one other state where this applies, but I forget which one.

Especially when the protest has nothing to do with your (general you) job or yourself.
The workers at the GM plant are being laid off because the components they need for the production lines are not being allowed through so they have to halt production.

cindosha   do you think it's fair and reasonable for these workers to lose their jobs when the protest has nothing whatsoever to do with them but they are prevented from working by others? 
Do you think the impact of the protest is fair when somewhere in the region of $320 million of goods cross that bridge daily worth $1.7 BILLION of trade daily. Ask yourself what impact that will have on your ( US) economy if it is allowed to continue?

And for the record I think Canada has every right to mandate vaccinations for anyone crossing their border into their country. For the ones that think it's very unfair, I hope non of you are thinking of taking an out of country vacation or a cruise in the coming months because you will find that the same conditions apply - no vaccine = no cruise/ no vacation, to very many countries.

But the protest has now morphed into something totally different to why it started. Others, with a very different agenda have taken over and it has got out of hand not only in US/Canada but also in parts of Europe, This no longer about vaccine mandates it's anarchy.