Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)

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I made the biggest political donation of my life after this policy was announced - and sent a screenshot to my (barely elected) UCP MLA letting him know. There's a lot to hate the UCP for, but this one really takes the cake.

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[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 22 points 1 day ago

Is alberta like canada's texas or something?

[-] DonkMagnum@lemy.lol 16 points 1 day ago

About 20% of them want to be. Alberta's Premier, Danielle Smith, is a Trump-loving separatist.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Yes. Oil and cattle ranching somehow breeds the same type of human.

[-] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 1 day ago

A lot of Albertans are descendants of Americans due to mass immigration, which is pretty ironic nowadays.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Yep, except probably with more pedophiles.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

These “Don’t tread on me” types sure love treading on everyone else.

[-] potate@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Absolutely - their recent 'Parental Rights' Bill eliminated the ability of parents of Trans or questioning kids to get puberty blockers (which have long been given for numerous other conditions such as precocious puberty without issue) or any other form of gender affirming care.

If I had a kid struggling with their gender identity, I'd be forced to leave the province if I wanted to get evidence based care for my kid - even evidence based care with limited ramifications regardless of how they end up identifying.

[-] C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

hypocrisy is a defining feature of the right wing

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Fascists gunna fash.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Seriously, what are these people thinking? Do they honestly believe they're making anything better for anyone or do they very much know they'll be killing thousands of innocent and just don't give a fuck about that?

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Making it harder to access vaccines means more people get sick. More sick people means more people in the hospital. More people in the hospital overwhelms public health, thus "proving" public health doesn't work and it's time to privatize. This is all by design.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

For sure, but how do you sleep at night?

[-] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

You need to let go of what you can't control, to a point. Focus an what you can do. Vote. Convince others who don't vote to vote. Educate people when the opportunity comes up. Get active in your community. Most importantly, show love, compassion, and empathy to those around you. Don't let right-wing rhetoric break you. Always try to be good, but never fail to be kind.

One thing you can start doing today to help curb the maga rise from the south is start transitioning off big tech. Dump social media. Get an email provider that's ideally privacy focused (Proton, Tuta), and stop using Google. The push for privatization comes from greed, which is compounded by Capitalism. And I'll say it once more, dump social media. It's predatory and only exists because of engagement from its users. Social media purposefully feeds divisive, toxic, misinformed bullshit to rile you up and get you to engage. Trust me, you'll sleep better.

[-] potate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Never ascribe malice to that which can be explained by incompetence. I truly think they believe the bullshit they spew. They are the heros of their internal monologues.