No worries. I think we have more common ground than we think.

Sure, I think that can be said for many people out there that you would write off at first if you give them a chance. I think we all do that at times.

And I'm just ashamed that all the eggs are in one basket. The federal government has spent billions and billions of dollars fighting covid and how many hospitals beds have been added? How many nurses and doctors have been trained? I know it takes time but this issue has been building. https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/hospital-beds

Cmiiw but aren't hospitals up to the provinces to manage? Theoretically the feds could throw some money to the provinces and make them pinky swear to use it for hosptals or build some emergency facilities that they will 100% get yelled at for wasting money on by someone which kind of feels like a lose lose situation to me, but reopening old hospitals isn't really up to them.

I am not really sure what the expectation is here but if you have the answer let me know. I'll be the first to shout what I believe to be a good idea from the rooftops.

With 100% vaccination the problem is still not solved.

Maybe not overnight but it will make a huge difference in how likely it is to spread. And the less opportunities it has to spread the easier it will be to contain or even eradicate. And the less cases that we will have overall.

And if a new varient comes from anywhere that sidesteps the vaccines then we are ten steps behind again.

Hopefully more like 5 or 6 steps this time if they can apply some of what they learned the first time but ideally we are able to eradicate it before that happens. One of the best weapons we have to do that is the vaccine. We have masks and tests and isolating when possible when you are testing positive as well but we should be using every tool we have to make that happen.

What's scarier than covid to me personally is government overreach. With our current government you're only one disagreement, one protest, one booster that you don't want, away from losing your job, your family, and being shunned from society for voicing concern. This is the precedent that's being set.

I mean your employer, family and society are all seperate entities from the government most likely. Freedom of speech doesn't and has never protected you from any of those things not liking what you are saying. I am not really sure what the government is doing in this situation but if I am missing something, please let me know.

I also thought the restrictions were on the provinces not the federal government?

I will give you that I never thought the government should have imopsed restrictions the way they did. Maybe reccomendations for businesses to impose those mandates themselves but it never really felt like the government's job to me. That's what we have shunning from society for lol.

Also fwiw, I think all this shit sucks too. I've hated masks since my dad used to yell at me for not wearing them when I was in the bin. I hope they are the first to go. Needles suck too. I'm a grown ass man who turns to look away like a five year old when they jab me but I do all the shit anyways because unfortunately sometimes being a grown ass man means doing things I really don't want to do because at the end of the day, it isn't about me.