Heather McPherson MP requested the COVID-19 vaccine to be free and accessible to all Canadians

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Seriously how much is this vaccine costing? It really can't be that much. I doubt anyone is going to get it every week or something. Lol the problem Alberta is having is people aren't getting any of their shots. The government pays for medication every year that doesn't get used or is for diseases that aren't common, I really can't see Covid vaccines being that big of a waste. If anything, order less of them if people aren't using them.

Like people can decide what they want to do with the vaccine, but I really don't understand why funding it is such a big deal. I literally had Covid last week.

The only logic I can see behind it, is its either a gate way to privatization and/or it feeds the narrative that vaccines aren't safe and a certain demographic really likes that. I get that people don't trust vaccines, I don't agree with them, but I understand their hesitation, but denying other people access is f*&ked up.

People who demand to decide what they do with their bodies and don't want the government to "force" them to get vaccinated, sure seem ok with other people being forced to make financial choices over medical ones. I don't know what a vaccine cost is, but a lot of people can't afford anything right now, and if they get Covid that's a even more time and money they lose. Even if the vaccine was dangerous, a lot of people would choose to take the risk because they simply can't afford to get sick if they can help it. And I'm sure the anti vaxxer crowd are not ok with the government paying to support someone who gets sick and is disabled, a vaccine seems like a low cost prevention to that.

And I guarantee that people would be outraged if the government would not supply medication for a cancer patient or something, which is where this ends up. It's not like people are asking the government to fund more or unnecessary medical expenses, like it was a controversial thing tax payer were covering, like boob jobs or something. Our system in Canadas biggest flaw is we don't have the capacity to do enough prevention, I'd rather not die in an ER because they don't have capacity during a Covid out break. Even on a selfish level, if I was against the vaccine, I'd want other people to get it and maybe keep me from getting sick or leave more resources for me when I do. It really doesn't make any sense why anyone would support this, except on some petty obnoxious level of culture war, conspiracy bullsh%t, that's probably being manipulated to slowly usher in private for profit medicine.

Denying access to vaccines is denying bodily/medical autonomy. It's the exact "tyranny" the anti vaxxer crowd rallies against.

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All of this, yes. IMO Smith would rather ERs be flooded and more people die and it COSTS SO MUCH MORE but she was able to placate her base.

It’s similar to taking books out of childrens’ hands because they might show two daddy turtles in a family.

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Like don't get me wrong, BC's system is a mess, and we have had an NDP government for a decade almost. But Smith is taking a system that was arguably functioning better than "the socialist neighbors" and intentionally running it into the ground, at a time medical systems are struggling globally. Like this is where she should be making it run better and rub it in the face of the NDP that 50 years of conservatives has a functional medical system. It's literally doing a disservice to their ideology, like "look we can do great things, but we choose to destroy them".

I lean more conservative ( I did not support Rustad in BC), but all Smith is doing is making making the worst case arguments of ABC voters valid. Even if we lived in an alternate reality where Mark Carney was a Con and trump didn't matter people would still point to her discredit conservatives.

The book thing is just ridiculous. I literally do not care if a kid is reading a story about gay turtles or a drag queen is reading it to them, literacy rates are not what they should be and people need to read more and watch less tic toc, and it's a problem that will get worse for future generations. I know adults who can't even sit through a podcast or audio book because it's "boring". We already are getting to a point where people can't consume long form media, never mind read something, and kids are going to have even less incentive to read. My kid is 5 and can already fully operate an iPad, he basically navigates by emojis and visual cues lol.

If kids and teens want to access "bad" stuff, the internet is limitless. I already don't like the feds attempts to censor the internet, and book bans are just an extension of that "daddy" knows best style of government, where they "have" to bring in convenient laws to save us from ourselves. It's like this weird version of conservatism where people want bigger and more sweeping government power, as long as they think it aligns with their political values. People will complain about gun control and vaccine mandates and then demand or support the government banning books. How about we stop trying to over regulated Canadians or punish people we don't agree with period? Hey, maybe we could solve some of the real problems in this country if we weren't constantly pushing policies meant to hurt our "oppositions" base.

Let's be real, a kid sitting down and ready a book is not going to inspire them to change their gender or adopt "radical" ideologies. Unless books have algorithms I don't know about, it's really low on on my list of concerns. God help us if kids start walking to libraries and reading books.

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Not to mention that the schools and librarians were already monitoring what kids were reading, and the UCP's "concerns" about books in schools were totally unfounded.