In the end, the mandates they were protesting did drop in many places. So they did achieve that objective.
The Trucker Convoy
- Thread starter spectratg
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We all have our hills we are willing to fight for but from the onset I thought the trucker convoy was ill conceived and frankly pointless. And now those same people who haven't worked in weeks are going to have to pay huge fuel bills to get back home. I guess they could rename it the "fool convoy", oops, Freudian slip, I meant "fuel convoy". My bad.
You believe the mandates are being lifted because of the truckers? Really?
OneEyedDiva
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What was planned as a peaceful convoy left New Jersey at the beginning of the month. I read this article and haven't heard any more about it. So maybe it was peaceful.
https://nj1015.com/vaccination-freedom-trucker-convoy-is-coming-to-new-jersey/
https://nj1015.com/vaccination-freedom-trucker-convoy-is-coming-to-new-jersey/
And it cost both the US and Canada something like 140 million bucks daily as the Canadian truckers kept all commerce from crossing the bridge for a couple of weeks. Then there was the constant noise, keeping people from sleeping day and night and they didn't give a damn, all they cared about was the fact that they didn't want or they were too cowardly to take a simple shot!
honestly i think the political class in many countries Gave up on further restriction and mandates Before this convoy
but it did show some who are willing to stand up for something they believe ...
FAR to many IMO stand for nothing and will just do as they are told regardless... that is sad to me...
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
– Malcolm X
but it did show some who are willing to stand up for something they believe ...
FAR to many IMO stand for nothing and will just do as they are told regardless... that is sad to me...
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
– Malcolm X
A nothingburger.
Just what I was thinking.
Rebels without a cause?
That darn gubmint!
Devi
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You might want to look further into what is purportedly "a simple shot". That's all I'm going to say on this matter.
I felt bad for the people of Canada, these fools were loud and disruptive, they should have all been arrested and their trucks impounded. It's freedom of choice, if the vaccination is mandated for over the road truckers, then they can put on their big boy pants and take the vaccine, or park their truck in a lot an pout....their choice.
I worked for years, part of my job was loading and unloading semi trucks with a forklift, daily contact with numerous drivers from throughout the US and Canada. Back then there was no deadly pandemic to deal with, but if there was, I sure as hell would want those drivers vaxxed and masked if I had to have any contact with them. The convoy "rebels" are just selfish, childish cowards.
It's a simple shot that was tested and approved. Those vaccinations saved many lives and saved people from being hospitalized and hooked up to a ventilator to spend their last hours on earth alone, with no family or friends near, just hard working and empathetic nurses and medical workers. Thank goodness for our medical workers, they have been through hell with all those who have refused to get vaccinated against this deadly virus. Instead of being thanked, they have been given a slap in the face by all the selfish, ignorant covidiots.
Jules
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Nonsense. The mandates were already being considered to be reduced or removed … based on science. Nothing was changed to the mandates because of these protestors.
Standing up did nothing but harm other Canadians and also Americans and truckers who couldn’t send or receive the goods that needed to be sent across the border.
Just within a province the companies were begging for truckers to transport goods. There was no lack of work for any of these truckers!
Devi
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- East WA USA
So ... were the mandates removed? Or was nothing changed?
Many people throughout time have stood up for something .....
it may have not be seen by others the same way the participants see it.
It was meant to get attention by holding up the freight...... so by that standard it did accomplish that.
The "science " did not change that much .. confirmed cases have been going down........... but here in the US perhaps that is more about people testing at home are no longer counted you do not report your results to big brother.....
we will not probably even report those still passing away WITH Covid........ cause that was so yesterday.
....Companies whom embraced mandates and said their workforce will be vaccinated period backed away see Amazon , Starbucks etc
the REAL issue is the poll numbers changed and public sentiment....... is driving mandates to end ............
people finally seeing it is up to an individual to KNOW their OWN risk and take care of themselves .......instead of demanding others MUST do items based on them not the other person.
I find it very telling when people talk about "I want people masked and I want vaccines mandatory IF I have to have contact with them"
but then claim it is about community.....
a discussion about public health or community would use we or us not .... the word "I" over and over.
if it makes some feel good by pretending the race to end mandates .........was planned all along let them believe that.
Well said Jules, true.
dseag2
Dallas, TX
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- Dallas, TX
Gotta have fun with it.
Jules
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Each province removes or retains restrictions based on decisions by their chief health officer who bases it on the numbers in the hospitals, deaths, numbers testing positive, etc. Bit by bit, things are being eased.
The mandates still exist for trucking between Canada & the US, both directions. As Covid numbers improve the restrictions are being lifted for travel. Many provinces have started to removed mask mandates except in health facilities.
To answer your question, nothing changed to the mandates because of the convoys.
Here in the DC area, they were barely noticed. Their little fuel-wasting adventure just resulted in a big shrug. And I have a feeling that the sudden escalation in fuel prices put a stop to this kind of childish nonsense.
There are a lot more serious concerns to worry about right now.
There are a lot more serious concerns to worry about right now.
No shortage of nutters in this world.
That one guy needed to smoke a little more pot, it wasn't mellowing out his crystal meth buzz. The other genius should be sterilized. They're fully funding by others probably with political affiliations so money will be no issue for the Canadian truckers and probably not for American truckers either. There is a LOT of money behind these protests which should make average folk take notice. Some entity of power is paying to get these mandates to drop.
Such as?
Now who can that be, I wonder?
Hmmmm. Glad you mentioned that chic. Rich folks manipulating the pawns and paying them off. Now, let's see, who gains by divisiveness?? Who likes chaos? Had a girl in my Shakespeare class in High School, one of the only classes I regularly attended and one day she read aloud the word 'chaos' only she said Chow Oooos and we all laughed.
I think you are probably partially correct. Most protest are going to need an organizer or an instigator to get things rolling. I have no doubt there is special interest money from someone or some organization to get things started, but that money only goes to a few, not across the board to all participants.
I do not think the Freedom convoy accommplised anything. The mandates are being lifted because most populated places are reaching hoped for vaccination levels (notice I didn't say immunity). If a new highly contagious vaccine resistant variant appears tomorrow my guess is many of those mandates go right back in place.