The only thing I'll add to this amazing discussion is how freely you guys espouse "science" when talking about people needing to get vaccinated to protect the rest of the population.
It is very well known now, and it was about a year ago that getting the double-shot of COVID-19 vaccine was never about protecting the "others". Rather it was about limiting extreme outcomes and avoiding overrunning our medical system.
Personal choice in medical procedures is very important, and forcing or coercing people to take a very experimental treatment, where the benefits were either overstated or simply made up is problematic at best.
The most recent admissions by executives from Pfizer don't give me much hope as someone that took the vaccine, under the assumption that it would protect my family and I, that any future endeavours like this would get me to take that risk again (obviously weighed against the risk of whatever next virus/pandemic we're up against).
This is, and always will be, a personal risk exercise. Most people suck at determining risk in their daily lives, let alone during a pandemic.
It's really easy to scream at "anti-vaxxers" or whatever term du-jour you decide to use against people that you disagree with. You may call me one too, except you can't since I did get the vaccine.
Am I getting my 5th or 6th booster, well, I don't think so. The more that comes out in the mainstream media reporting the more it makes me not want to take it.
I think the issue is that everyone is still really saddled in on their high-horse, and they look at anyone with a dissenting opinion as a stupid red-neck that believes every conspiracy theory out there. Now sure, there are plenty of people going on about WEF / New World Order BS and all that when talking about vaccines, but the majority of Albertans/Canadians that had, and still have, real actual hesitations about taking a vaccine that hasn't really been proven to do much to prevent the infection and spread of a deadly virus that killed millions of people.
Yet, somehow we're all just expected to hold the narrative from early 2020 about herd immunity and the saviour that is the mRNA vaccine (not saying that the vaccine didn't save lives, which it did, just to be clear).
Why can't we accept new information and maybe ponder that we were either lied to or severely misled, either on purpose or by the mere notion that we didn't have all the info at the time?
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