Covid 19 conspiracies dump

[Rev. Rye]

Politicians are not going to come out and say, here you go, I'm giving into demands. That's not how politics works, my friend, so stop being naive. You are more intelligent than that. It was likely a combination of the protests/border blockage, the facts of covid declining, and upcoming elections. The Premiere said in the video "It's time for us to heal the divisions in our community over vaccination". Did you even watch the video? Sounds like I can't read, and you can't click a play button. He wasn't referring to the protests when he was talking about division in our community over the vaccine, right? What world are you living in right now? And they don't usually just announce an abrupt end to restrictions happening almost immediately, "within hours". That's not how these things have happened in the past. This is being done much differently. And if I had posted the covid information coming out of those places, I highly doubt you would have been in support of taking masks off of the children in schools and no longer requiring vaccine passports, so there's that too.

1) You argue that politicians aren't going to just say they're giving into demands, and citing that part of the reason for the new measures are because of the protests and because of the upcoming elections. A bit of a contradiction there, innit? Although, that said, given that said premier has tended to have a fairly lax view of handling the pandemic from the beginning, I suspect that the convoy gave him a semi-decent excuse to do what he was already inclined to do anyway. 

2) COVID-19 may be declining, but how long will that last, and will that decline keep up when restrictions are lifted or will it start to flare up again? It happened the first time America tried reopening, and it's still happening. And if you want to ask when I think we should be able to reopen safely, I'd have to say, I don't know, ask one of the actual experts.

3) Yes, there has been division in communities over the vaccine since before the convoy started its protests. Unfortunately, it's mostly due to the spread of misinformation and people being primed to not listen to those who actually know what they're talking about.