[ls15]

> okay so this is an unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business. Can someone explain to me why this is tolerated and why these people are not simply being arrested?

I would say, just end those unlawful and unscientific vaccine mandates that have a detrimental impact on societies and businesses, so everyone can move on.

[halostatue]

Vaccine mandates are lawful and constitutional, and well supported by science.

[ls15]

Btw., the SCOTUS has already blocked nationwide vaccine mandates in the US:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/supreme-court-va...

> In freezing a lower court opinion that allowed the regulation to go into effect nationwide, the majority sent a clear message the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, charged with protecting workplace safety, overstepped its authority. In contrast, the justices said that a separate agency could issue a rule to protect the health and safety of Medicare and Medicaid patients.

So they made an exception for healthcare workers in order to protect "the health and safety of Medicare and Medicaid patients". Patients are only protected by vaccination of healthcare workers if the vaccine is sterilizing, which is not the case (science).

[halostatue]

We’re talking about Canada. I don’t care what SCOTUS says because it has less than zero jurisdiction over Canada, where all of the lockdowns, restrictions, and vaccine mandates have _already_ passed multiple levels of constitutional review.

Strictly speaking, SCOTUS erred in its decision (other vaccine mandates in the past _have_ passed constitutional muster), but that’s unsurprising given that there are no thoughtful conservatives on the bench. Even Scalia, one of the most ignoble Justices to ever serve on SCOTUS was smarter than any other conservative on the bench now and would _likely_ have disagreed with this decision. Most of the recent justices have no business being on the court either as wholly unqualified or because of unconstitutional abrogation of duty by the legislative branch under Mitch McConnell.

[ls15]

Not for SARS-CoV-2 and especially not for the Omicron variant. It is laughably absurd.

[halostatue]

Said like someone with an incorrect idée fixe instead of actually looking at (a) jurisdictions where they’ve worked (b) actual epidemiological and socio-psychological science. There are mistakes made by scientists during this pandemic (downplaying the efficacy of masks for months). Recommendations on vaccine mandates and vaccine passports aren’t one of them.