Global Protests Against Social Distancing, Lockdown, Vaccine Mandate

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Danoff
"Truth", "Freedom"

Get it through your head, you do not have the freedom to make other people sick.
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Sorry, they don't agree about caring for other people. Its their problem.
 
Leave quietly, or not. Doesn't matter to me, so long as you leave. But we know you won't.

:)
 
"Italians who refuse to accept the corona pass, protest by bringing their own food and drinks and eating in front of restaurants and bars. The people protesting include vaccinated and unvaccinated people". It looks mostly peacefull.
 
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Federal Conservatives change course, now tell the blockade protesters to go home.
After publicly supporting the anti-vaccine mandate activists protesting in Ottawa in recent weeks, interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen said Thursday it's time for the convoy and other protesters blocking two major border crossings to end their demonstrations and go home.

Bergen, who has called the convoy a "passionate, patriotic and peaceful" group of Canadians concerned about freedom at a time of COVID restrictions, said the protesters have made their point to parliamentarians and the Conservative Party will take up their fight in the House of Commons instead.
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Earlier Thursday, in a message aimed at protesters, Bergen said "the time has come for you to take down the barricades, stop the disruptive action and come together.

"The economy you want to see reopened is hurting. You protested because you love your country and you want your freedoms back. That message has been heard."

Bergen said barricades and trucks should be removed for the sake of the economy and because "it's the right thing to do."
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UKMikey
It looks like GoFundMe took down their latest grifting attempt.
www.crikey.com.au

GoFundMe removes Convoy to Canberra campaign, refunds $179,000 to donors

The platform says the fundraiser was taken down after it was vetted by its trust and safety team, but offered no other details.
www.crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au
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Speaking of the grift...
www.nbcnews.com

As U.S. ‘trucker convoy’ picks up momentum, foreign meddling adds to fray

Facebook said Friday it removed trucker and convoy groups run by overseas actors. Many anti-vaccine and conspiracy-driven groups have moved to embrace convoy organizing.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
I guess it truly is a "global" protest. Meanwhile, a counterprotest known as the Ram Ranch Resistance has been set up.

 
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As many anti-vaccine and anti-mandate protesters in trucks continue to paralyze Canada’s capital and block border crossings, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he hopes truckers would come to the United States as soon as this weekend to clog up streets in Los Angeles during the Super Bowl or next month to Washington.
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Yet when Paul was asked about his thoughts on the convoy and the potential for it to spill over into Los Angeles, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl, or into the District, he said “it’d be great” if the anti-mandate demonstrators came to the United States to “clog things up.”

“I’m all for it,” Paul, a longtime opponent to masking and vaccine mandates, told the Daily Signal, a conservative outlet, on Thursday. “Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates.”
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Yeah, good luck with that hope, Rand. Blocking traffic & honking big rig horns throughout the day/night in LA isn't gonna fly with them, esp. not around Inglewood.

That's asking for Reginald Denny 2.0.
 
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I would've thought a bunch of honking truckers trying to overthrow an elected PM was a bigger threat to democracy, but hey. Last I heard a majority of people were voluntarily vaxxed, so what happens to their democracy if the ratlickers get their way?
 
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Dotini
I think he's right. These protest convoys are afoot all over the world, but not quite yet in the US.
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There's literally no point for them to do so. Red states have basically been doing their own thing, a dozen or so blue state governors are going to begin lifting restrictions, Fauci has said the "full blown" pandemic may be coming to an end.

Besides that, all it will do in the US is incite tension & possible violence. LA, DC, basically any big city in the US they've discussed trying this in will face retaliation by its residents b/c US culture is not the same as Canada's, made worse by the fact we love our guns. The moment any of them actually start disrupting the economy like the blockade (which is now removed), our police will not go in as nice as those seen in Ottawa.

It's a dumb idea to try in the US by this point & it will do nothing but be used by some to grift or politicians to play theater.
 
McLaren
There's literally no point for them to do so. Red states have basically been doing their own thing, a dozen or so blue state governors are going to begin lifting restrictions, Fauci has said the "full blown" pandemic may be coming to an end.

Besides that, all it will do in the US is incite tension & possible violence. LA, DC, basically any big city in the US they've discussed trying this in will face retaliation by its residents b/c US culture is not the same as Canada's, made worse by the fact we love our guns. The moment any of them actually start disrupting the economy like the blockade (which is now removed), our police will not go in as nice as those seen in Ottawa.

It's a dumb idea to try in the US by this point & it will do nothing but be used by some to grift or politicians to play theater.
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I don't dispute any of your points, but merely acknowledge these protest convoys are breaking out around the world as a simple matter of fact. Sometimes I do wonder what it means to be free, to have freedom of speech, to peaceably assemble and to protest peaceably. These are things I've done all my life since 1964, the huge march on the capitol by the Rev. Doc. Martin Luther King Jr, through the Viet Nam war to the WTO "Battle in Seattle". I marched. I burned barrels and blocked streets. These days I no longer protest, so losing the right and the freedom to do it mean less to me personally. It is for the struggling and working generations to figure out for yourselves.
 
The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big, yellow ones.

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It's sort of funny because it's far from prevailing sentiment contingent upon outside actors, not only for manifestation and coordination, but also actual engagement.
 
Dotini
I don't dispute any of your points, but merely acknowledge these protest convoys are breaking out around the world as a simple matter of fact. Sometimes I do wonder what it means to be free, to have freedom of speech, to peaceably assemble and to protest peaceably.
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A demonstration on a street that can be easily circumvented is peaceful. Intentionally seizing streets that people rely upon, and which emergency services rely upon, which cannot be circumvented, and holding those streets not until you've made your point but until the damage inflicted becomes so great that your voice gets acquiesced to despite your lack of voting presence is not peaceful.

A blockade of services that people rely upon until your demands are met is not just a demonstration or protest, and it's not something that freedom entails.

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I think it's also important context to consider that the Canadian trucker protest is complete nonsense. These same people would say that their country has an obligation to control its borders. But Canada is required to allow people to go to a country experiencing a pandemic and let them back in unvaccinated and with no quarantine? You have zero expectation of that freedom. As I was mentioning earlier, you do not have the freedom to get people sick. It's deeply hypocritical and misguided.
 
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Danoff
A demonstration on a street that can be easily circumvented is peaceful. Intentionally seizing streets that people rely upon, and which emergency services rely upon, which cannot be circumvented, and holding those streets not until you've made your point but until the damage inflicted becomes so great that your voice gets acquiesced to despite your lack of voting presence is not peaceful.

A blockade of services that people rely upon until your demands are met is not just a demonstration or protest, and it's not something that freedom entails.

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I think it's also important context to consider that the Canadian trucker protest is complete nonsense. These same people would say that their country has an obligation to control its borders. But Canada is required to allow people to go to a country experiencing a pandemic and let them back in unvaccinated and with no quarantine? You have zero expectation of that freedom. As I was mentioning earlier, you do not have the freedom to get people sick. It's deeply hypocritical and misguided.
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As a matter of fact, one of the Canadian border blockades has been broken, but the other remains in place.
 
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Danoff
"Truth", "Freedom"

Get it through your head, you do not have the freedom to make other people sick.
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So when Covid is a couple years behind us, and mask mandates have been lifted worldwide, I trust that you’ll still be wearing your N95 right? COVID isn’t the only airborne transmissible illness you know…

I get the collective “everyone do their part to not spread the virus” bit… I really do.

But there seems like their needs to be a time when personal accountability comes into play, and if the individual feels they are at substantial risk of complications due to Covid, it’s their job to take what they feel is proper precautions. Not mine.

Same rules apply to when I’m scanning my mirrors during 120 mile commute to work and I see an a-hole weaving in and out of lanes going 30mph over the speed limit. Should I go and block him because it’s my responsibility to keep the other people on the freeway safe? Or should I get the hell out of the way and pray to god that other people are utilizing defensive driving techniques like common sense and drivers training dictates?

World wide, we’re already starting to see governments lift mandates. I’m honestly curious to see how the political and medical leaders are going to frame it? Like, if they’ll try to frame it as we beat Covid or whatever…

I for one, equate it to Americas withdrawal from Vietnam and our latest dismal withdrawal from Afghanistan. We got out because we lost. We got out because nothing was working.

The only thing that curbed this virus was lockdowns. The only thing the “vaccine” did was keep people out of the hospital, and people with pre-existing health conditions alive.

Both good things if you ask me. But not nearly enough to warrant vaccine mandates IMHO. The omicron variant proved that if anything. Called my mom yesterday to say what’s up like I usually do every couple days or so. She’s positive. Not feeling super great. Not horrible by any means… just sick. She got her booster 2 months ago. And oh yea, this her second time positive too, just like me.

I’m boosted and everything as well. I decided that unless work requires I keep getting boosted…or whatever country me and the wife galavant off to requires it, I’m out. Just my opinion and my decision on what’s best for me. Others can do whatever they feel is necessary for their own personal health. I could honestly care less what others do.


Some might be wondering why I labeled “vaccine” as such 2 paragraphs earlier. This is why:

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This is the definition of a Vaccine. This Covid Vaccine we have hardly fits the description of this word by way of providing “immunity” as so the definition states.

At this point, the Covid vaccine is little more than a pre-emptive therapeutic or booster.


Food for thought fellas, that’s all 👍🏼
 
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