“So, look Indigenous and other marginalized folks… I know we’ve had some less than great history about mandatory government programs. And yes, childhood education is essential, but if you don’t agree to this mandatory medical program we will not allow your child in school.”
It’s a tricky balance but this article doesn’t even attempt to explore reasons we might not be making these mandatory, which to my mind is criminally poor reporting and one of my major issues with the Tyee.
That’s not really a tricky balance, there is a clear right direction to pick
I am curious, though. Did First Nation consultation result in any voiced resistance against vaccination?
That’s not really a tricky balance, there is a clear right direction to pick
I love that you “know” the right direction without even knowing how margjnalized folks might feel about it.
Just to be clear, your opinion is that the government should just force marginalized folks to do what we think is the right thing regardless of their feelings or experiences?
(And if your second paragraph is a serious question, you could literally just google Canada First Nations vaccine hesitancy and learn a whole boatload.)
your opinion is that the government should just force marginalized folks to do what we think is the right thing regardless of their feelings or experiences?
No
you could literally just google Canada First Nations vaccine hesitancy and learn a whole boatload
Indeed, TIL
This was a pretty interesting read: https://afn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dr.-Valerie-Gideon-Presentation_EN.pdf
Sorry, I’m clearly not understanding your position… Vaccines should be mandatory but also not?
Yes. Just like they already kind of are in a bunch of ways. At the very least they should be opt-out instead of opt-in, with immunization campaigns deployed in the spirit of increasingly making opt-out more exceptional
They already are opt out, not opt in.
How so? Encouraging people to vaccinate their kids and making the vaccine free is still an “opt in” system. What I mean with an opt out system is that it would demand effort and a processual review to not vaccinate (at some level, even if at the community level), like filing for being excused of immunization and having that file as part of the immunization record.
So there’s a measles outbreak at a school then wouldn’t that potentially make them liable for it?
