MONTREAL - Adult Quebecers who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be forced to pay a “significant” financial penalty, Premier Francois Legault said Tuesday, one day after the sudden resignation of the province's public health director.
The penalty would be the first of its kind in Canada and would apply to unvaccinated residents who don't have a medical exemption, Legault told reporters in Montreal. The “health contribution” is necessary, he said, because about 10 per cent of adult Quebecers aren't vaccinated, but they represent about half of all patients in intensive care.
“I think right now, it's a question of fairness for the 90 per cent of the population who made some sacrifices - I think we owe them this kind of measure,” Legault said, adding that the unvaccinated should be forced to pay for the extra burden they are placing on the health-care system. Source
Cynthia Chung joins Our Interesting Times to discuss her series of articles concerning Aldous Huxley and his work Brave New World: "Who Will Be Brave in Huxley’s New World?", "The War on Science and the 20th Century Descent of Man", "The Origins of the Counterculture Movement: A Gathering of Anarchists, Occultists and Psychoanalysts for a New Age", and "Huxley’s Ultimate Revolution: The Battle for Your Mind and the Relativity of Madness."
Cynthia Chung is a lecturer, writer and co-founder and editor of the Rising Tide Foundation.
