This is a state fighting its own citizens for a political act of ignorance. 90% of eligible individuals have received at least one dose in Quebec.[0] What's the point of additional marginalization of a very stubborn group of people? It's playing with fire and with no responsibilities, as I severely doubt anyone will be convinced to get vaccinated because they can't go to Walmart after one year of restrictions, but it will certainly make them madder.<p>[0]. <a href="https://covid19tracker.ca/provincevac.html?p=QC" rel="nofollow">https://covid19tracker.ca/provincevac.html?p=QC</a>
<a href="https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/situation-coronavirus-in-quebec/" rel="nofollow">https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coron...</a><p>The most recent data on the evolution of COVID-19, in the last 24 hours, in Québec show:<p><pre><code> 4,150 new cases, bringing the total number of people infected to 845,564*;
73 new deaths, for a total of 13,009 deaths;
3,270 hospitalizations, for a decrease of 8 compared to the previous day;
297 new entries,
305 new discharges;
252 people in intensive care, for a decrease of 11 compared to the previous day;
31 new entries,
42 new discharges;
38,734 samples conducted on January 24.
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I wonder how this action will improve on these numbers.
The public policy responses to this pandemic would make a whole lot more sense if intramuscular (humoral) vaccination actually prevented (or even significantly mitigated) the <i>spread</i> of sars-cov-2. Unfortunately humoral vaccination only starts the B cell to plasma cells training and generation of igG antibodies in the body serum to protect internal organs. Other immune compartments like the upper respiratory mucosa are not protected by serum igG antibodies. And the T cells trained by intramuscular vaccination are <i>not</i> tissue resident in the upper respiratory where they are needed to stop infection. They just do a pretty darn good job at preventing serious disease.<p>I wish governments of the world would heavily invest in the current and future intranasal sars-cov-2 boosters to prevent spread and follow up on the strong base of intramuscular body protection. I might not even be opposed to mandating intranasal vaccinations since they would stop spread. But this? This doesn't make a lot of scientific sense.
The UK, Denmark and others moving to get rid of ALL restrictions. Meanwhile Canada, Australia and others devolving into police states...<p>Edit - forgot some other countries. Netherlands, Ireland also ditching restrictions...
> … As directed by the Government of Quebec, we will implement the vaccine passport at our stores in Quebec. We ask for our customer’s patience and understanding as we continue to ensure a safe and efficient customer experience.<p>6:35 PM · Jan 24, 2022·@WalmartCanada<p>…<p>> Yesterday we implemented the vaccine passports at our stores in Quebec. Some pictures on social media wrongly suggest that plexiglass dividers at some stores are to isolate non vaccinated customers. This is false. The dividers are for associates when they scan vaccine passports.<p>7:44 AM · Jan 25, 2022·@WalmartCanada<p><a href="https://twitter.com/WalmartCanada/status/1485971856138158089" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/WalmartCanada/status/1485971856138158089</a>
Quebec is a test ground because they've got a language barrier, so it's not like any resistance will register or trend online or make mainstream media.
This has nothing to do with safety either. Knowing some people who work in Walmart corporate, I interpret it as pure cynical and radical politics. The Waltons have shown they are very much on board with the WEF/ESG agenda, and they are as out of touch with us as Bentonville is to the rest of Arkansas.<p>It's an abomination, but if I were to make a prediction, judging by the size of the truck convoy crossing the country, this will be the least interesting news about this topic over the next couple of weeks.
Some great images here of how people are fed up with the anti-vaxxers and truckers who are a vocal minority about the vaccines.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/8el1Jj5" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/8el1Jj5</a>
>A statement on Costco’s website states that as per their Code of Ethics, they are required to comply with the law wherever they operate.<p>Either support it or don't, but this lukewarm response of "I'm just obeying orders" is cowardly.