Province’s vaccination lottery raises a red flag

By Letter to the Editor on June 23, 2021.

Editor:
I am very angry with the premier for using my tax dollars to encourage people to get a vaccine that isn’t really a vaccine as we know it. Read the science offered by the companies like Moderna or Phizer. I, along with a few others, have been doing homework and researching this COVID shot, and there are so many things that create enough of an alarm that I won’t be taking it, and I’m sharing what I’ve found so others I care about don’t either.
It is always a race to share this information, as doctors, immunologists, nurses and other researchers, who give scientific reasons why they have an issue with this vaccine, are deplatfomed, shunned by colleagues and even fired. The articles and videos are taken down within hours if not days.
By writing this letter, I know that I too will be harassed and shown anger by some friends, family, colleagues and strangers. I don’t judge them for their opposing opinion, don’t judge me.
I am fully against anti-vaxxers, as it should be up to individuals what they decide to do. My issue is when students are offered breaks on tuition and a chance to win free tuition, or the premier giving $3 million in a taxpayer funded lottery to encourage fence sitters to quit looking at any conflicting views and just take the vaccine already; then I am upset. This itself raises a red flag.
Brandt Skriver
Lethbridge