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LinkPizza posted...

You has to pay? In Canada? Im in the US and didnt have to pay

Depends where you are in Canada. Around here (NS), PCR and rapid tests are both free, though they've recently started limiting how many rapid tests people can take due to supply concerns (there are still plenty for everyone to test twice a week). In Ontario, a pack of 5 rapid tests is $40, which is more of a problem.

BigRhinoX posted...

Your country pays. Your taxes pay. You pay.

But they've already paid, so you might as well take advantage of it. No, fighting the greatest public health crisis in a century is not free. There will be a need for tax increases in the years to come to offset the deficit this whole mess has incurred. That's just the nature of the beast. Actively resisting efforts to bring it under control under the pretense of saving money, however, makes absolutely no sense. That just prolongs it and makes it even more expensive, especially when you have to start looking at expanding hospital capacities to handle the consequences of letting Covid spread unrestrained.

BigRhinoX posted...

To the person talking about vaccines rising the life expectancy, were those MRNA vaxxs?

Why are you so insistent that mRNA vaccines are not vaccines, or otherwise should not be counted?

BigRhinoX posted...

Did they say the other vaccines were just 2 dose shots that slowly turned into the CEO CALLING THE FIRST 2 SHOTS INEFFECTIVE and saying they you just need more of it - the same dose, same recipe?

Once again, the disease has changed significantly since the vaccines were first developed. Alpha didn't even exist then, let alone Delta or Omicron. Of course the existing vaccines are going to be of limited use in battling a variant that has specifically evolved to dodge existing immunity. They remain, however, our best option for reducing infection rates (as little as they do against Omicron) and for reducing the severity of infections (which they still do, even for Omicron), and it remains a fact that booster doses help with that. Once again, Omicron is not the only variant still floating around, as much as it is dominating now, and vaccines will continue to help against Delta once Omicron burns itself out (giving virtually no useful immunity against Delta in the process, given the variation in antigens).

Needing boosters to maintain immunity is not unusual. This is more frequent than usual, certainly, but there's also never been a vaccine against a coronavirus before. Some challenges are to be expected. Needing periodic boosters to keep that immunity up does not challenge the legitimacy of the vaccines any more than needing to eat repeatedly challenges that legitimacy of food.

BigRhinoX posted...

Why are people scared of a government shot for your safety that, if any scientist or doctor that disagrees with the given narrative loses their job?

Should a doctor that promotes treating meningitis with garlic and horseradish instead of antibiotics keep their job? Medical professionals that actively endanger the public generally don't remain medical professionals for very long. That's less to do with "disagreeing with the narrative" and more to do with "promoting bad science in a way that will kill people."

Not to mention so many people like you are fond of complaining about dissenting voices being silenced, but they never seem to share any actual examples of it happening on a significant scale. I wonder why that might be...