<story><title>Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-trucking-go-idCAKBN2KA0H3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>Even more stupid: Canadian media and Twitter users saying they are “fringe” because by a &lt;i&gt;poll&lt;/i&gt; (totally no incentive to lie on those), 85% of truckers are vaccinated.&lt;p&gt;To which I say:&lt;p&gt;A. I bet more than 15% are unvaccinated because why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties?&lt;p&gt;B. If it is actually 15%, that’s not fringe, and also that’s low enough that dropping the mandate should be reasonable (see all the countries who dropped restrictions at 75%-80% vaccination).</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Also keep in mind that in the backdrop of all this is the fact that our Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists.  Probably inspiring someone who ran over some protesters in Winnipeg.&lt;p&gt;Canadian news and politicians are desperately trying to denounce the protesters while ignoring the fact that Canada has some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world at the moment, while the US has hardly any and European nations are mostly moving to remove all restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fourneau</author><text>Others have already highlighted that you can be vaccinated and anti-mandate, which is what many people are focusing on.&lt;p&gt;From a numbers perspective, 91.54% of Canadians 18+ have received at least one dose. 88.91% of 18+ have received two.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x2F;possible&amp;#x2F; that truckers are widely unvaccinated (perhaps they all subscribe to the same train of thought), but it&amp;#x27;s unlikely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-trucking-go-idCAKBN2KA0H3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>Even more stupid: Canadian media and Twitter users saying they are “fringe” because by a &lt;i&gt;poll&lt;/i&gt; (totally no incentive to lie on those), 85% of truckers are vaccinated.&lt;p&gt;To which I say:&lt;p&gt;A. I bet more than 15% are unvaccinated because why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties?&lt;p&gt;B. If it is actually 15%, that’s not fringe, and also that’s low enough that dropping the mandate should be reasonable (see all the countries who dropped restrictions at 75%-80% vaccination).</text></item><item><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Also keep in mind that in the backdrop of all this is the fact that our Prime Minister has called the protesters racists and misogynists.  Probably inspiring someone who ran over some protesters in Winnipeg.&lt;p&gt;Canadian news and politicians are desperately trying to denounce the protesters while ignoring the fact that Canada has some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world at the moment, while the US has hardly any and European nations are mostly moving to remove all restrictions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigodbiel</author><text>I can’t understand this dichotomy. Just because one is vaccinated, does not mean they are pro-mandates.</text></comment>