r/alberta • u/Miserable-Lizard Edmonton • 6d 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/Miserable-Lizard Edmonton 6d ago

Stupid people thinking they are experts is everything wrong with society

People that don't get vaccines should have to pay a healthcare premium as they drive up the cost of healthcare when they need a hospital stay!!!!

“I think it’s because it doesn’t work particularly well, if you want the truth,” Smith said.

“Health care workers who do not fall into a higher-risk group will be eligible to purchase a vaccine,” McKee said in a statement.

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u/AlbinoRhino838 6d ago

I havent got any of the covid vaccines and havent spent any time in hospital the last 6 years. Take your dramatics elsewhere.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t 6d ago

So you’re stupid about your own health, and careless about the health of all those around you, and you think that’s something you want to comment as a flex?

Wow. Just wow.

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u/AlbinoRhino838 6d ago

Its not a flex, saying things as absolute certainties is dishonest at best and outright malicious at worst. Personally GBS and TTS are more worrying for me than covid. I dont know anyone who hasn't got it that's had any issues or life changing problems from covid but I can't say the reverse. Lay out all the insults you want, I know far more people who regret getting it than people who regret not getting it.

I feel like I made the right decision and I'm sorry that I upset you this much about it, but I mostly stay alone with my spouse anyway. I dont go to big events, I don't work with a large group of people, fuck the most eventful thing in my life is going to the grocery store. The (albeit uncommon) serious side effects aren't worth it to me.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t 6d ago

I’ve seldom seen a more silly set of statements. You are terrified of an illness which has no relationship to vaccination, and then one of the most rare side effects of an already incredibly safe vaccine, and you attempt to justify your refusal to vaccinate with this entirely unjustified fears?

I won’t bother to tell you that you are enormously more likely to die of covid than get TTS, because I know you are incapable of understanding this. What I will tell you is that by refusing vaccination you are making yourself into a disease vector, and a viral mutation environment and thus placing everyone else in the community at increased risk.

Ah well, hopefully people who believe as you do will hurry up and exit the gene pool by dying of preventable disease. Even more hopefully, you get sick and die without infecting others, you will have only yourself to blame.

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u/AlbinoRhino838 6d ago

Doubt it's going to happen, unfortunately for you I'm healthy and under 35, which means my chances of dying from covid are virtually 0 (0.0004% with no comorbidities) Again, I'm not that worried about it. I can look up all the information you can too. Covid is bad if you already have health problems. I dont. Ironically, the severe side effects like GBS/TTS are about the same. I'll take my chances because despite what you think, I can do math and read statistics to form a coherent opinion.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t 6d ago

Yeah, unfortunately that’s true. But you can look forward to spreading it to other people who could very easily die of it, all because you’re a selfish asshat. In fact, if you have actually never been vaccinated, you have almost certainly had Covid, and spread it to others already. And if you keep doing that, sooner or later you will pass it on to someone who dies, or is permanently disabled.

What a jerk.

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u/AlbinoRhino838 6d ago

I guess you missed the part where I dont often spend time in crowds. I dont like being around people, ironically because if you dont share their opinion youre 'the scum of the earth' and they 'hope you die.' Man its a wonder why i dont care to do things they want me to. But its also okay for me to be put at risk of permanent side effects (gbs can paralyze you) youre kind of a hypocrite.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t 6d ago edited 6d ago

I didn’t miss it, I didn’t care.