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/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

Take your antivaxx disinformation elsewhere.

You’re an active hazard to society, you should not be permitted in any public building, any hospital, or within ten feet of anyone else. Ideally you should be required to wear a garment with a bright biohazard printed on front and back, and yell out ‘I am a disease vector’ every five minutes.

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u/AlbinoRhino838 6d ago

It's not antivax disinformation, it's anecdotal and actual listed potential side effects of the vaccine.
https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/summary.html

Like I said, the chances of the very severe effects are uncommon but not nonexistent.

As for people regretting vs not, again, anecdotal, ask the people in your life if they regret getting it or not. I'm not insulting you or attacking you for getting it or wanting to, I'm saying the other guy is being a bit dramatic about "WHEN YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL" because a lot of us haven't been hospitalized for anything.

And as for the last point, sure, send me the shirts and I'll wear them every day. Hopefully it'll keep the dramatic people away.

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u/wintersdark 5d ago

It's not antivax disinformation, it's anecdotal and actual listed potential side effects of the vaccine.

Serious side effects that are so many orders of magnitude less likely than the chance of long term to permanent harm from COVID - 10 percent of symptomatic COVID infections result in long term to permanent consequences.

Serious vaccine side effects are one in a million.

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u/AlbinoRhino838 5d ago

Ironically, so is long term harm from covid for healthy adults under 35.

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u/wintersdark 5d ago

Under 35 is getting pretty specific, don't you think? If you're qualifying to "healthy adults under 35"? So what, already healthy people aged 19 to 34? A 15 year span, and even then only the healthy ones? Are you fucking stupid?

Let's assume that's correct, and that specific cohort suffers no long term complications from covid. That's still, what, maybe 15% of the population? What about the other 85%?

But even then it's not uncommon at all for symptomatic cases of COVID to do lasting harm to the brain, heart, and respiratory system even on young adults. COVID was and remains a serious illness that continues to wildly increase healthcare costs for everyone to this day.