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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I thought, based on my experience of Polio #Vaccines in the early 60s, that ultimately this is what the world would do to protect everyone. Never occurred to me that I had a right to carry a virus that can hurt you & your family. That's a very big burden I don't want to carry.
We live in a strange world. Really smart people are saying We will just have to live with Covid for the rest of our lives. And so we will just have to live with public health rules/issues (a) masking (b)distancing (c) regular booster shots (d) extremely long waits for surgeries.
So we are told just accept it, deal with it, surrender to it. Why? Well because we can never ensure that enough of the population is vaccinated. Why? Well because we certainly can't mandate vaccinations? Why. Well because of vigorous push back from the anti science crowd.
If we give people around the world a simple choice- (a) Put your future in the hands of science, technology & knowledge OR (b) have the rest of your life controlled by those who want to wage a permanent war against knowledge, I'm confident that a beats b all day long worldwide.

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1 Dec
#BreakingNews: New rules for travel into the U-S may shut down many travel plans during the Christmas/Holiday Season. From the @washingtonpost "The Biden admin is preparing stricter testing requirements for all travelers entering the U-S, including returning Americans,
to curb the spread of the potentially dangerous omicron variant, according to three federal health officials. As part of an enhanced winter covid strategy Biden plans to announce on Thursday, U.S. officials will require everyone entering the country to be tested
one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure. Administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival.
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15 Nov
Reading over the wknd that in one of the most highly educated nations on earth, Austria, only 65% of the people are fully vaccinated. Seems far right politics is effective at disseminating the same disinformation that contaminates too many Canadians.
If the far right can stop millions from saving their own lives w vaccines, what can't they stop? And if the majorities in our many educated societies don't take disinformation campaigns seriously, what has to happen to make them understand how much this threatens democracy?
We shouldn't need an international summit to teach us that the fastest way to destroy democracy is to continue to believe that we need to respect all who express an opinion. Why offer respect to those who have wittingly or unwittingly been recruited by the disinformation army?
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10 Nov
Thread from @JessLReid "Like so many Canadians, I grew up consuming dairy, believing it to be an essential food. I never considered where it came from, beyond the cow who obviously just made milk for people."
"But undercover footage from an organic dairy farm in B.C., recently obtained and published by Animal Justice, exposed what I learned later in life: cows don’t make milk for us, they make it for their babies."
"And as part of standard farming practices, those newborn calves must be removed from their mothers in order for that milk to be rerouted for human consumption."
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25 Sep
There has never been a day when I haven't been proud to be Canadian. But on this day, September 25, 2021, I am particularly proud of my country that refused to forget the names of two ordinary Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two #Michaels
who 1000 days ago were in the wrong place at the wrong time, taken by force and deprived of their human rights by the regime in Beijing that stole their freedom, put them in solitary confinement, forced them to endure a sham trial -convicted them for crimes they never committed.
Indeed the convictions themselves were crimes that continue to go unpunished in a world where expectations are low of countries governed by those who without the capacity to care about morality & humanity, only ideology & power. But on this day, Saturday, September 25th, 2021,
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4 Sep
#ErinOToole is pledging to get the national vaccination rate above 90%. On motivating the unvaccinated, the #CPC leader says "You don't win people over by threatening them. You win them over by reaching out, talking to them, understanding their fears, answering their questions..
We need to persuade every Canadian that vaccines are safe, effective and our best route out of this crisis." #ErinOToole Dear Mr. O'Toole. Nobody is threatening the unvaccinated. They are threatening us. Vaccines are the only way out of the crisis. The science is crystal clear.
Every reasonable person knows it. For those who choose to remain unvaccinated, the only way to "secure the future" as you like to say, is to deprive them of privileges & opportunities to work & socialize with the rest of us. That means mandates.
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15 Aug
A terrible day for the PM and the country he leads. His election message deeply flawed, his abandonment of our friends in Afghanistan, is painfully horrific. Re: his historically weak argument for an election. He is arguing that this parliament is making it difficult for him to
implement public safety measures & policy related to it. But there is no evidence for that. The most important measures he implemented required no approval from Parliament. He has during this pandemic been able to govern as if he had a majority. Budget,Throne speeches, approved.
Most important today, it's crystal clear that Canada is leaving many behind in Afghanistan who we made promises to. With our Embassy being shuttered & Kabul becoming Taliban controlled, we are abandoning many who sacrificed for Canada.
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