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Offline thackney

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Canadian couple who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people may face jail time
« on: January 29, 2021, 03:10:14 pm »
Canadian couple who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people may face jail time
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/28/canada-couple-covid-vaccine-indigenous-people-jail-time
28 Jan 2021

A millionaire Canadian couple who secretly travelled to a remote community to receive a coronavirus vaccine meant for vulnerable and elderly Indigenous residents may now face jail sentences for breaking public health rules.

Casino executive Rodney Baker and his wife, Ekaterina Baker, an actor, were widely condemned after it emerged that they had chartered a plane to a remote community in the Yukon territory, where they posed as local motel employees to receive the vaccine.

They were fined C$2,300 (US$1,800) for violating Yukon’s Civil Emergency Measures Act, but community leaders argued that the penalty would be insignificant for the wealthy couple: Baker resigned from his position as a casino executive on Sunday but records show he made a C$45.9m profit on stock options over the past 13 months....
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Re: Canadian couple who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people may face jail time
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2021, 03:14:55 pm »
Why didn't they simply call up some politician and hand over a campaign donation in exchange for vaccine access just like every other rich liberal does?
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Re: Canadian couple who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people may face jail time
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2021, 03:29:59 pm »
IMO, governments are being unrealistically narrow and inflexible on vaccinations' priorities. On one hand vaccinating the most vulnerable early will likely save lives; on the other, when it comes to herd immunity, every additional immune person contributes to herd immunity.

That said, this couple committed blatant intentional fraud. C$2300 "Monopoly Money" plus a few days' jail time is probably proportional to their fraud (I doubt that the Yukon Territory is a hotbed of Covid spread).
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Re: Canadian couple who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people may face jail time
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2021, 03:31:03 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on January 29, 2021, 03:14:55 pm
Why didn't they simply call up some politician and hand over a campaign donation in exchange for vaccine access just like every other rich liberal does?

They didn't think to donate to Miss Nancy or Chuckles? ****drummer
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If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.
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