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31 Jan 2022
The protest is primarily anti-mask and anti-government rather than genuinely about trucker vaccination requirements.

One of the reasons that I kind of landed on having absolutely zero faith that this actually ever was about truckers. And the rule that they need to be vaccinated to cross the border is something that I read in a CBC article. amount of regulations that truckers are already subject to, like brake inspections and load limits. Truckers are even subject to physical exams that ensure that they're healthy enough to make their trips. So it only makes sense that this would just be another aspect of that regulation set. In order to be a licensed trucker in Canada, you need to possess a DOT medical certificate, and that requires vision and hearing testing, submitting to urinalysis, and the running of neurological and cardiovascular screenings to make sure that you don't have a high risk of seizures or heart problems that could impair you on the road. You have to re-up that medical card every two years. There are a lot of things that are required by the DOT physical that could be argued to be just as much medical tyranny as a vaccine requirement, so it's a little hard for me to accept that the actual problem they have is the imposition of this new requirement. That's a mask. It's the public-facing position that has a kernel of respectability to it that's hiding what was really... It's just... Anti-mask. Anti-vaxxer nonsense. Yeah, and anti-government protests. Just being presented as the public as being about these draconian restrictions and stuff.