Vaccine passport meme12/31/2023 Meanwhile, London Drugs was called “evil” and “the enemy,” apparently thanks to its decision to ask employees to be vaccinated by November 1. (Save-On-Foods didn’t return several calls asking for comment.) We have been told to leave people alone without masks.” A man who said he works in security at a Save-On location referred to masks as “chin diapers” and said he won’t enforce their use. “I work at Save On and we don’t enforce customers to wear masks,” one said.Īnother poster who claimed to be a Save-On employee wrote: “We were the last to do masks (government rule only). Several posts from people claiming to be Save-On-Foods employees implied that the grocer is sympathetic to the anti-mask movement. Group members also discussed larger retailers. “I shipped 100 this morning alone,” Ruff says. Kitimat jewelry artist Kelly Ruff showed off a key tag she’d designed, featuring a raised middle finger and the inscription “Here’s my vaccine passport.” Requests flooded the thread. While a parade of businesses posted messages trumpeting solidarity, at least one entrepreneur took it a step further. “The BC Government are creating divide amongst people, like Adolph Hitler did in 1933,” said one member.Īlthough Cahill urged group members to remain upbeat, he also posted a PDF of a “Vaccine Notice of Liability.” The document suggested that a vaccine pass violated the Nuremberg Code (a post–Second World War convention intended to outlaw medical experimentation on humans) as well as the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act of Canada. At one point, a meme depicting provincial health officer Bonnie Henry in a Nazi uniform was posted. There was also a heaping helping of Hitler. One poster promised that standing up against tyranny could earn you a “40% discount on digital marketing services” (that message accompanied by a GIF of blue-faced Mel Gibson in Braveheart, shouting “Freedoooom!”).Īnother member described an encounter with a store manager: “ said, ‘Can’t you just wear a mask for 10 minutes?’ And I asked him if he wanted to rape me for 10 minutes too.” Numerous posts spieled out paranoid conspiracies about vaccine passports as a sinister first step toward a police state. “We are pro-medical privacy, pro-Charter, pro-choice.”īut it’s not easy to police a Facebook group that’s growing faster than the Delta variant. hospitals and insisted they would delete offensive content. They denied any connection to the September 1 protests that took place outside some B.C. Group moderators warned members to keep things positive. “I am registered in the FBI database now,” she says. while attempting to visit Canada Customs: she was detained by U.S. In addition to her skepticism about vaccines’ effectiveness-“there’s always another variant, and another”-Chandler says she was disturbed by an incident when she accidentally crossed into the U.S. “This group has level-headed people standing up for personal choice and freedom.” “I don’t want to take people down,” she explains. Chandler, who runs video production company Mephobia as well as Blue River Studios, says the tone was largely positive. Squamish filmmaker April Chandler joined the group in that first week. They included hair salons, spas, gyms, tattoo parlours, realtors, cafés, a blues band, a Pouce Coupe pizza joint and at least one practitioner of “certified energy work and metaphysical instruction.” A group administrator soon listed the anti-passport businesses in a phone app. businesses proclaiming they “do not discriminate”-meaning they don’t require customers to wear masks or present evidence of vaccination. Hundreds of posts appeared from small B.C. In his words, the group “took off like a rocket sled on rails.” Within a week, it had more than 105,000 members and was still growing. His goal, Cahill told an interviewer, was “to find a place to go have lunch.without having to divulge my personal medical history.” On August 24, Shuswap woodworker Sean Cahill started a Facebook group called BC Businesses Against Vax Pass, quickly changing the name to BC Businesses Against Health Pass. Credit: Graham Roumieu As a visit to Facebook makes clear, not all local entrepreneurs are thrilled about asking customers to wear masks and show proof of vaccination
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