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The only thing I say is there is a huge difference between people who lost relatives to COVID and people that got lucky with either no deaths or mild cases. The virus seems random and it shows in the ability to comprehend the consequences of ones own actions. This fluff piece is a slap in the face of over 1 million dead Americans and their relatives. There were always mandated vaccines in a virulent crisis like COVID only this time it got political weaponized.

[rayiner]

I had an uncle die from covid. Like most people who died from covid, he was in his 70s and had additional risk factors. It’s not unusual for people in their 70s to die. It’s always sad, but it’s part of the human condition and we shouldn’t blow it out of proportion.

We have never mandated the entire population, including children, to get vaccinated with a new vaccine based on cutting edge technology. England made vaccination of children mandatory nearly 50 years after the smallpox vaccine was developed.

I’m no anti-vaxxer. The only one of my kids who is eligible to be vaccinated got the vaccine. But I think it was the wrong call to mandate young, healthy people to get vaccinated to protect old people. I’m praying public health officials made the right call here.

[mattcwilson]

I have no idea what things were like in Canada, or how they compared to America. But it seems off, imo, to call this piece a slap in the face to Americans when as far as I can tell the author isn’t asserting anything about anything outside of Canada.