The documents, obtained through an access to information request, consist of dozens of pages of communications between officials at Alberta Health, the government ministry, and Alberta Health Services, the provincial health authority. They show that, in addition to ordering AHS to remove references to specific vaccines, the government instructed the health authority to limit information on vaccine benefits and efficacy.
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Public health experts have said these paltry [vaccination] numbers are partly to blame for the fact that Alberta’s hospital wards and emergency department waiting rooms are now overflowing with patients. The Globe and Mail reported last week that some doctors have said the situation is worse than it was during the height of the pandemic.
I don’t know how these things usually work, but it seems like overreach for elected officials to tell public health officers how to do their jobs.
It’s weird that they’re censoring the flu. I sort of understand COVID - they want to pretend that it’s over. But the flu?
Since 2019, a core tenant of conservatism is the belief that vaccinations are conspiracies to poison the population in the pursuit of corporate growth.
Popular conservative forums and online communities often purge their members and/or accuse them of being not true conservatives if there is disagreement over the vaccination stance of their ideology.
My favorites were always the microchips in the vaccines nutjobs. Like it’s more believable that the government would track oil through a microchip than your phone?