Juno News - January 08, 2022
Will Canadians push back against mandatory vaccines?
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Mandatory vaccines for Co-Codi-19 all across Canada? Is this something that will fly, and if so, what will the federal government do about it? What would it look like, and what would it mean for those who don t get vaccinated.
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mandatory vaccines for COVID-19 all across Canada is that something that's going to fly is that
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something that you would support federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos speaking on Friday
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says the time has now come to start moving in that direction to have that discussion he says
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that the federal government should be having that discussion in concert with the provinces
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moving forward that soon they're going to have to head in that direction now he didn't make any
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specific suggestions or proposals of what such a policy would look like there are a couple countries
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that are doing this already and what they do is they find people who are not being vaccinated is
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that something that'll be proposed what about the criteria for what actually counts as being
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vaccinated what do they actually want you to do is this just saying that people who have no vaccines
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have to get one dose or two doses or is it mandating a third shot that those Canadians who were led to
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believe that all they had to do is become quote-unquote fully vaccinated with the two doses
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and then there would never be any lockdowns again well would they be included in this mandate that is
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under I guess temporary discussion at least from the feds good questions we don't know the answers
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but if they do continue with this conversation it'll be interesting to see what they put forward maybe
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they won't continue with the conversation though because there's already pushback from some senior
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figures Alberta Premier Jason Kenney already saying uh-uh ain't gonna fly we don't want this happening
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here in Alberta so it'll be interesting to see what the responses are from various other politicians
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one also wonders what Canadians are going to be thinking about all of this because I think there's a lot
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of frustration from those who did go out and get vaccinated being told do your part once you do this
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this is all over but I happened to notice a tweet recently from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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saying all right folks all you need to do is get your booster shot and then we can put all of this
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behind us and that's how we get over the pandemic oh okay but that's exactly what you said earlier prior
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to boosters in terms of just the first and second doses so I'm not so sure people are going to be so
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agreeable that that that pledge is an accurate one that it's actually going to be delivered upon
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and then you also have people looking at the data and going I don't even know what's really going on
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right now when it comes to vaccinated unvaccinated persons and the hospitalization numbers there was
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a period where people were calling COVID-19 pandemic of the unvaccinated but if you look at the numbers
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right now it's telling a different story actually Jean-Yves Duclos when he gave that very press conference
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when he was speaking about this issue he said one of the reasons uh why making vaccines mandatory
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should come to pass is because 50 percent of the Quebec COVID hospitalizations are among the
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unvaccinated you go okay like I guess proportionally speaking that's a lot but at the same time the way
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we were previously talking about the vaccines we were led to believe it would be like a hundred percent
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of the people in hospital with COVID uh would be unvaccinated now 50 percent so people are kind of
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looking at the breakdown and going I'm not so sure I think a lot of people are tempering the the
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aggressiveness with which they are now going to go after the unvaccinated Prime Minister Justin
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Gideau seem like he's really enjoying making them scapegoats and there's been a lot of attention to
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recent media appearance where he said some really odd things saying that they're that they're racist
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that they're misogynistic I recorded a podcast episode with a nurse in Ontario she'd been a nurse
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for many years and she did not want to get vaccinated and she was like go because she was not vaccinated now
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whatever you think of that issue maybe you believe she should have just gone and gotten the vaccine
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we had a long conversation and at no point did I hear her say anything misogynistic or racist so
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Justin Trudeau kind of going on overkill in that whole direction and I think it's just going to
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make people look at the mandatory vaccine issue and go even if they themselves are vaccinated like the
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vast majority of Canadians are even if they're supportive and encouraging of other people getting
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vaccinated which the vast majority of Canadians are this whole pushing towards the mandatory stuff
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I don't know I'm not so sure if they're going to be all that supportive of it