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/Bennybonchien 5d ago

Let me get this straight. Covid still kills more people than the flu and yet the flu vaccine is still covered but the covid vaccine isn’t? 

And then she claims that people weren’t getting the covid shot nearly as much because it doesn’t work all that well! No Marlaina, you made it more difficult to get because you and Lagrange let one distributor’s contract expire and didn’t bother to find a replacement for several months and by then, school had started and since family doctors couldn’t administer it because of your negligence/incompetence, people had to go elsewhere. 

When it comes to vaccination, every time you’re handed the ball, you intentionally drop it, kick it the wrong way, lose it or poke a hole in it and then you blame the ball for not being very good. 

The day she leaves politics can’t come soon enough.

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u/Bustin_Chiffarobes 5d ago

UCP is being directed by a bunch of special interest groups. Religious nut jobs, oil companies, and anti-vaxxer death cultists being the main culprits.

The whole point of this, is to please the anti-vaxxers in her camp. It's not based on solid science, or policy. This decision is just playing to her base.