Thank you for publishing the letter from Doug Reichel, the exposure you gave to Tony Mckechnie’s protest, and the article by Marc Legare. I was beginning to wonder when the wide-spread practices of mandatory vaccinations and, now, passports sanctioned by authorities and approved by the media would come into the foreground in Moose Jaw.
Personal disclosure: I am not against vaccinations. I am vaccinated against COVID. But from the beginning I am against mandatory vaccinations.
Early in the pandemic we knew vaccinations offered good, not perfect, protection of people’s health and contributed to herd immunity. For different reasons, many did not or could not make the choice for contributing to the health of the community in this way. So be it.
However, as the pandemic progressed research showed that vaccinated people carry the same variable loads of COVID as the unvaccinated people. This means that the vaccinated pose similar possibilities of transmitting the virus and can contribute to the virus’s potential spread as much as the unvaccinated. This new research makes the mandates absurd. (This research also supports masking and distancing for everyone to be extremely effective in preventing spread and reducing the rates of virus extant in a community.)
Mandatory vaccinations and their passports are dangerous and ugly precedents for our society to adopt. They segregate and they encourage discrimination, as the above individuals clearly have pointed out. It will be interesting for me to watch the outcomes of legal challenges to these mandates.
Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, Ph.D
