{"id":9003,"date":"2025-08-05T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9003"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:20:26","slug":"albertas-perverse-new-barriers-to-covid-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/albertas-perverse-new-barriers-to-covid-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta\u2019s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s radical new rules for COVID immunization pose a genuine threat to the elderly, the working poor and pregnant moms. <\/p>\n<p>Smith, who revived her ailing political career by peddling conspiratorial COVID theories, has designed a program that is not only punitive but discriminatory, bureaucratic and Soviet in nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis policy is so bad that it\u2019s actually worse than their usual failure to plan properly,\u201d said James Talbot, the province\u2019s former chief medical officer of health. \u201cIn fact, it is so bad it looks like they are actually planning to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are the three basic tenets of any successful public health program: make it available, make it accessible and make it affordable. Smith turns all three upside down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s radical new rules for COVID immunization pose a genuine threat to the elderly, the working poor and pregnant moms. <\/p>\n<p>Smith, who revived her ailing political career by peddling conspiratorial COVID theories, has designed a program that is not only punitive but discriminatory, bureaucratic and Soviet in nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis policy is so bad that it\u2019s actually worse than their usual failure to plan properly,\u201d said James Talbot, the province\u2019s former chief medical officer of health. \u201cIn fact, it is so bad it looks like they are actually planning to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are the three basic tenets of any successful public health program: make it available, make it accessible and make it affordable. Smith turns all three upside down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/albertas-perverse-new-barriers-to-covid-vaccines\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alberta\u2019s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,309,14,15],"class_list":["post-9003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}