Ottawa - Where do you get your news from? poll

. I am fully vaccinated but believe mandates are government overreach.

If the government decided tomorrow that we all must wear the same uniform before we left the house I would be against that as well. I am ok with the current state of being able to wear what I want.

Before I restart watching the live stream I'm now watching, I thought I'd answer.

I'm not in Canada. I don't watch Canadian news. I'm only relaying what I have heard people willingly step up to an online live-streamer to state, and what they are overwhelmingly saying is that what they are seeing on the news is NOT what they are seeing in real life.

I WAS surprised to hear FOX news specifically noted and thanked several times yesterday for at least showing some of what they were seeing in real life. I watched a little FOX news later that night to see and did see clips that looked like they may have come from live-streamers.

That's my own witness account of what I heard from an online live-stream from random strangers, so take it for what it is and nothing more.


As for what is happening...

I guess that depends on where you get your news from. If you listen to Premier Prime Minister Trudeau, who personally is in awe of communist China (his own words, not my opinion), his statements to the media and on the floor of government are those of denigration of all of the people who have a disagreement with his mandates and who have repeatedly and unsuccessfully sought to speak with him. I watched him speak online to a representative body (senate?), so those weren't news clips but real time video that I refer to. He walked out of this body instead of answering the thrice called for demands to renounce his comments to the body - which included Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors - about standing with Nazis.

The US government has not disagreed with him.

Those are facts as stripped of as much personal opinion as I am capable of stating.

And, with that, this is way more than I intended on saying and it's probably best for me to back away from the thread now.

That would be fine wouldn’t it, if enough people did the best for society and the greater good and to help prevent more mutations of their own accord but as we can see - it hasn’t happened…and so the pandemic continues for EVERYone.

I tried checking the end of the thread here about the trucker convoy in Canada first, and I just couldn't take reading any more. 

Maybe some of y'all can relate to that. Maybe you can't. Whatever. It is what it is, and what it is has been here for years on end now.

The little that I read of that thread makes me truly wonder what you are basing your opinions on.

I'm basing my opinions on a Canadian live-streamer I've been watching for quite a number of years now - someone who consciously tries to be as objective on any subject as is humanly possible - as well as other live-streaming videos.

I've watched hour after hour after hour of life on the ground with the truckers and protesters in Ottawa, and I've got to say that what I read of the overwhelming opinion here represented NONE of what I was seeing streaming live.

So, the obvious question here is why what I'm seeing happening live is so dramatically different from the opinions of people here? 

Answer however you wish. I'm not starting this thread to debate or argue, and at this moment I have zero desire to comment further. I just simply want to know what you are basing your opinions on.

I answered you. Yes I am ok with the current requirement of wearing clothing in public. Not sure I understand how you correlate that to a medical procedure to keep your livelihood?

Why wouldn’t he be eligible for a medical exemption?  And were his heart problems conclusively caused by the vaccine?

Also, the protest may have started as anti-mandate and that may have been their intent but it has expanded well beyond that to far right grievances, anti-government, white supremacy, anti-vax etc.  Funding is coming from those groups and some of the supporters there represent those groups. Regrettably, this includes far right trump supporters and extremists from the US with trump and confederate flags. The protest is much more than anti-mandate.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/us-trucker-convoy-picks-momentum-foreign-meddling-adds-fray-rcna15932

Why are you OK with that mandate?!?!

Hypocritical much?

Why is it OK for society to MANDATE that we put clothes on our bodies in public!?!?!

Why aren't you CONSISTENT about your anti-mandate stance when it comes to SOCIETY telling us what to put on our bodies?!? What happened to FREEDOM?!?!?!?

I don’t consider myself a hypocrite at all. I am okay with laws and rules to keep society safe and functioning however I don’t believe these mandates will do one thing to benefit anyone but in turn will cause division and hurt. It is not a situation where mandates should be used or implemented I don’t believe.

I don’t consider myself a hypocrite at all. I am okay with laws and rules to keep society safe and functioning however I don’t believe these mandates will do one thing to benefit anyone but in turn will cause division and hurt. It is not a situation where mandates should be used or implemented I don’t believe.

I don’t consider myself a hypocrite at all. I am okay with laws and rules to keep society safe and functioning however I don’t believe these mandates will do one thing to benefit anyone but in turn will cause division and hurt. It is not a situation where mandates should be used or implemented I don’t believe.

That is a great question! Congratulations! Asking questions and seeking answers from reputable sources is step one in the journey away from uninformed opinions. Try it out. Start reading credible science, credible medical studies, credible public health studies, and the like. 

Comparing wearing clothes with mandating injecting drugs into your body?
Until we see the government mandate surgically attaching your clothes, this is an absolutely perfect example of a false comparison. Apples to oranges.