Justin Trudeau on vaccinations...
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Summary
Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister of Canada, former Health Minister, former Prime Minister, and former UNICEF World Health Organization Director General. He is also the author of the book, "Vaccination: The Truth You Need to Know About It".
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misinformation and disinformation is carrying people to believe things that are untrue
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and vaccinations is a perfect example of it like any modern bit of medical
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advancements there are potential side effects in vaccinations
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and there you know are people who've probably gotten very sick from vaccinations
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on the billions of people who've been vaccinated against covet over the past few years
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but there are far more people who obviously have died due to covet died from not getting vaccinated
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and the idea that people can fly in the face of science well individuals are allowed to make
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their own choices there may be all sorts of different reasons why someone is hesitant
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to get vaccinated but i make a distinction i have always have between someone choosing for personal
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reasons to choose not to get vaccinated and someone deliberately using misinformation
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to mislead and scare other people with so-called facts that aren't facts at all
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that lead them to make a choice that endangers their lives and the lives of other citizens
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so as prime minister through the greatest public health crisis that we've faced in a hundred years in
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this country since the spanish flu my responsibility was to keep as many canadians alive as possible
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and all of the scientists and the medical experts and the researchers not just in canada but around the world
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understood that vaccination was going to be the way through this
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and therefore while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated i chose to make sure that all the incentives
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and all the protections were there to encourage canadians to get vaccinated and that's exactly what
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they did we got vaccinated to a higher level than just about any other of our peer countries and that's
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why we had a less deadly pandemic than most other countries