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GordonBlue · 10-14-2022, 06:59 AM

this column on CBC reminds us that making vaccine status a human right, it would likely extend to ALL vaccines. every last one.

Danielle Smith wants vaccine status to be a human right. Expect a petri dish of problems

There are real-life consequences of banning vaccine mandates, and they'd go well beyond COVID

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ysis-1.6615900

Vaccine mandates and rules aren't something that suddenly burst into the world in 2021, when Pfizer, Moderna and other companies devised shots to protect against the coronavirus. Such requirements have long been common for health-care workers, health sciences students and others in that realm. Requirements have remained in place for other vaccinations — Hepatitis B, measles, tetanus and other easily-preventable diseases with well-established immunization programs.

But if you're establishing a human right to refuse vaccines and not face employment or consumer consequences, Smith presumably cannot design a protected class only pertaining to immunization from one disease. One assumes it would have to apply to all vaccinations.

The Alberta Human Rights Act would effectively be protecting a newly-created freedom of one group of citizens, and in so doing limiting protections against disease for the other Albertans in their midst. That is, health-care workers would be free to be unprotected against an array of other diseases as they work in hospitals.

10-14-2022, 06:59 AM	#2213
GordonBlue Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Alberta Exp:	this column on CBC reminds us that making vaccine status a human right, it would likely extend to ALL vaccines. every last one. Danielle Smith wants vaccine status to be a human right. Expect a petri dish of problems There are real-life consequences of banning vaccine mandates, and they'd go well beyond COVID https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ysis-1.6615900 Vaccine mandates and rules aren't something that suddenly burst into the world in 2021, when Pfizer, Moderna and other companies devised shots to protect against the coronavirus. Such requirements have long been common for health-care workers, health sciences students and others in that realm. Requirements have remained in place for other vaccinations — Hepatitis B, measles, tetanus and other easily-preventable diseases with well-established immunization programs. But if you're establishing a human right to refuse vaccines and not face employment or consumer consequences, Smith presumably cannot design a protected class only pertaining to immunization from one disease. One assumes it would have to apply to all vaccinations. The Alberta Human Rights Act would effectively be protecting a newly-created freedom of one group of citizens, and in so doing limiting protections against disease for the other Albertans in their midst. That is, health-care workers would be free to be unprotected against an array of other diseases as they work in hospitals.