This movement highlights how the vaccination movement has moved away from protecting public health toward political coercion. Truckers, who work solitarily, are one of the professions least likely to be infected. If they have to go inside a building, they need wear a mask and abide by the laws as everyone else, but most of the time they sleep in their truck. They eat in their truck. They know that time is money. Mandating vaccination for solitary workers isn’t about promoting public health as much as it is about exerting power over them. This should be a scary thought- imposing one’s will under the guise of what on the surface should be noble- public health.
The freedom convoy in Canada brings to the forefront the rather quieter insurrection happening in the US. Our outcries have been mostly through the media voicing their opinions to each other or at a blank camera. We’ve had people demonstrate, but nothing like the national movement going on in Canada. Canada, a country we rarely hear from, our friendly bear of a neighbor, has woken from its hibernation.
Mandating vaccination for solitary workers isn’t about promoting public health as much as it is about exerting political power.
This puts Trudeau in a very tricky spot- admit that the freedom convoy is right, or risk prolonging the unease for everyone involved. I hope he comes to his senses and this is resolved peacefully.
