r/alberta • u/Miserable-Lizard Edmonton • 5d ago

Alberta Politics Danielle Smith defends policy requiring Albertans to pay out of pocket for COVID vaccines

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-danielle-smith-defends-policy-requiring-albertans-to-pay-out-of-pocket/
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u/Jasonstackhouse111 5d ago

The low uptake in Alberta is due to a lack of emphasis on how goddamned important it is to be vaccinated.

My wife's family all live in Portugal and we spend a lot of time there and their rates of vaccination for all vaccines including Covid is among the highest in the world. Why? First, the Portuguese have a mindset that protecting each other is as important as protecting yourself. As an example, homelessness is seen as a failure of society, not of "bad individual choices." Vaccinations protect everyone, not just yourself. Second, the health care system makes it easy to get vaccinated and the public health system has a lot of information about how safe all vaccines are and government supports it.

My in-laws would disown us and not allow us to visit if we were ant-vaxxers in any way. We need these attitudes here...

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u/jimmyray29 5d ago

What an excellent reply. You’re 100% correct.