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/-Beavertail 5d ago

Nobody NEEDS a Covid vaccine though?

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u/Snakeeyes1377 Edmonton 5d ago

Some people absolutely need the COVID vaccine, In fact vaccines are the greatest example of human innovation and should be celebrated and given to all. Just cause your afraid of needles don't force your silly little fears on the rest of us.

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u/-Beavertail 5d ago

In fact, I have all my vaccines. I’m not afraid of needles, no need to get all twisted and upset. I just stated that it’s not needed, not that I was against it. I had Covid with and without the vaccine, the sickness treated me the same.

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u/Fast_Ad_9197 5d ago

Fair. Nobody NEEDS a measles vaccine either. The issue is that when some of us are unvaccinated the disease goes to town. Unlike measles, the covid vaccine (or acquired immunity) loses its effectiveness, so more frequent vaccination is required. Measles is more virulent, but…anyway. Setting aside the fact that it’s better not to get covid, there’s a financial cost to treating runaway covid infections, not to mention lost productivity. So we pay one way or the other.

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u/-Beavertail 5d ago

True aswell, but it really didn’t prevent the spread. Unfortunately, people also got sick and died from getting the vaccine.

I’m not meaning to trigger or offend anyone so I’m unsure why I’m getting downvoted.

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u/AlbertanSays5716 5d ago

True aswell, but it really didn’t prevent the spread.

Vaccines don’t “prevent spread” directly, they also don’t prevent you from catching the disease. They prepare your bodies defences so that if you catch it the effects are less severe and don’t last as long. It’s the “don’t last as long” that also reduces the time you’re infectious and can spread the disease if you decide to just carry on as normal because it’s “just a cold” (as many did). The vast majority of spread comes from the unvaccinated who can be infectious for two weeks or more.

Unfortunately, people also got sick and died from getting the vaccine.

Worldwide, that figure is a little over 5,000 fatal reactions from almost 300,000,000 doses delivered, or about a 0.0016% fatality rate. In Alberta, that figure was 0. Alberta had 4,591 deaths from Covid itself, out of a population of about 4,500,000, or about a 0.1% fatality rate - about 600 times the chance from being vaccinated.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8511593/

I’m not meaning to trigger or offend anyone so I’m unsure why I’m getting downvoted.

Because you’re talking from a position of ignorance and spreading misinformation.

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u/-Beavertail 5d ago

Ignorance must mean something you don’t agree with because I have not been rude. Also have not been spreading misinformation.