The
legalization of choosing your own time of medically assisted death [MAID] was a
welcome liberation for those suffering from intolerable pain, and so was, at
its passage into law in 2016, a better way of dying for many in Canada. Truckers
have a valid reason for their current protest when the vaccination requirement is not
applied to all workers, as is currently the case in Canada. The difficulty with the trucker protest
against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
is not that it violates truckers’ “freedom” to refuse vaccination in contrast to
the vast majority of truckers who had already exercised their freedom to get vaccinated
before the requirement, but that, in pursuit of their freedom, their unvaccinated state, heavily correlated, as it is, with
COVID19 infection and mortality, endangers others. If the exercise of your
freedom endangers others’ freedoms then such freedom is not merely compromised
it is potentially lethal to those who choose otherwise, and so is unfair. But, for
all that, truckers are validly aggrieved to be selected for imposition when
other employment categories are not. Notwithstanding the ambiguous class status of many trucker owner-occupiers, their grievance strikes a chord with many
because of the apparent class basis of differential vaccination mandates. TorontotheBetter’s
suggestion: require vaccination for all workers or remove the trucker specific regulation.
# posted by Taodhg @ 12:01 am
