Anti-science and freedom messaging shifts from masks to COVID-19 vaccines
by Mark McAllister
Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 11:49 am EDT
Summary
Rallies put together by those considered to be anti-maskers are also featuring speakers who have fought against vaccines
Those opposed to vaccines often campaign on the false notion that they can cause autism
Medical experts say there s no convincing those who are opposed to masks or vaccines at this point
Groups fighting government regulations and mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic are now also emphasizing anti-vaccine messages, as the first doses become available in Canada.
Rallies put together by those considered to be anti-maskers, are also featuring speakers who have long fought against the use of vaccines. The group Hugs Over Masks are being supported by Vaccine Choice Canada, an organization downplaying the need for a vaccine to help fight COVID-19.
Doug Ford released the following statement.
“Today is a historic day for Ontario and for Canada as the first Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccines have started to be given to our frontline health care heroes.
I would especially like to recognize Anita Quidangen, the first person in Ontario and Canada to receive the shot. Anita is a personal support worker (PSW) from the Rekai Centre at Sherbourne Place, a long-term care home in Toronto. She has worked tirelessly to care for some of our most vulnerable, both throughout this pandemic and since her first days as a PSW in 1988. Anita has spent years rolling up her sleeves to protect our province, and today, she didn’t hesitate to find a new way to do so. She represents the best of the Ontario Spirit.”
US President-elect Joe Biden says local election officials and workers endured threats of violence and verbal abuse while ensuring democracy prevailed in the November election.
In a speech after the Electoral College affirmed his victory, Biden said the threats were “simply unconscionable.”
But he says workers showed courage and commitment to free and fair elections in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden says Donald Trump’s lawyers brought “dozens and dozens and dozens” of legal challenges, but each time they were found to be without merit.
Trump is still refusing to admit Biden clearly won the November 3rd election.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 15) A Filipina worker became one of the first recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in Canada, the Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines said on Tuesday.
Ambassador Peter MacArthur tweeted that Anita Quidangen, who has been working at a Canadian long-term care facility for nearly three decades, is originally from the Philippines. He called her a healthcare hero, who has worked tirelessly throughout COVID-19, sometimes on double shifts.
Making history - #AnitaQuidangen, a Personal Support Worker originally from #Philippines who has been working at a Canadian long-term care facility since 1988, among 1st to receive vaccine after working tirelessly throughout #COVID sometimes on double shifts as a #healthcareherohttps://t.co/hxIb756JZo Peter MacArthur (@AmbMacArthur) December 15, 2020
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The long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Canada and an end to the pandemic is finally in sight.
The first person in Canada to receive the first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday morning was 89-year-old Gisèle Lévesque, a resident of the Saint-Antoine long-term care facility in Quebec City. In Ontario, the first person to be administered the vaccine was a personal-support worker at a long-term care facility.
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