Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access
Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access
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Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access
We live in a sad time when a stunningly ignorant imbecile who believes he can can see children with "mitochondrial challenges" is in charge of public health, and this news post about vaccines can just as accurately be posted in a political sub.
Because of Trump and his worshiping morons 180,000 American's needlessly died during the worst of COVID, but that's not enough. Trump and his ilk want more people to die from diseases that were previously nearly gone.
Polio, Whooping Cough, Measles, and even Small Pox are now welcome in Trump's America.
Maybe these states should leave the USA and become part of Canada. People in right-leaning states hate California, but the US would collapse without it.
They need to finally form the country of Cascadia
That only works for Washington and Oregon, if California is included a better name is the Pacific States of America or The Grand Republic of California.
California alone has almost twice the GDP of the entire country of Canada, and nearly as many people. They wouldn't just become part of it, they'd make up most of it.
Besides, even as left-leaning states I would be concerned about that many Americans joining my country. Canada would lose its identity.
Fair enough - maybe it could become its own country then.
Maps change. It's the only real constant throughout history. May be sooner. May be later. But eventually, even the most resolute borders change as do nation-states. You don't have to go any further back that Yugoslavia, Serbia, etc... for example. It would be arrogance to presume that it won't happen here at some point.
Not of we join them and become a separate nation. We can form our own west coast identity. We are already different from most of Canada and have very little representation in our own politics. The East Coast gets all the love and all the funding, the west is left to fend for itself mostly, and we do alright.
I think we'll need a 1500-word essay from each state explaining why we should let them join. And no ChatGPT cheating. I also think Canada might be a little worried about California potentially getting the idea of "who's joining who" a bit backwards. We'll need them to at least sit a multiple choice test on that.
I wouldn't worry too much about California wanting to be in charge. That's not really our jam. We just want to be part of a constructive collective at this point. We've spent several decades in an abusive relationship at this point, with all the red states shitting on us whatever we do.
An essay explaining why each of the three states should going would be fun though. All three would have a lot to offer Canada.
I live in one of those states, and increasingly seems it's either that or we just all move to BC
To be fair if California were to join that would nearly double the Canadian population and that's not even counting the other west coast states.
Assuming equal representation rights those would be some huge changes
No thanks. Canada has too many anti-vax nutters.
I don't think I've met any anti vaxxers in California, but I live in a well-educated area, so maybe it's different in more rural areas. California has some of the strictest vaccination laws for kids in school, with no exemptions allowed.
Or, hear me out. The other states could start to respect democracy.
If only it were that easy. :(
If they want to, that's their prerogative.
Nope, just because they're to the left of much of the USA they're still right-wingier than of most of Canada.
I doubt they would fit in well with Canadian society.
Vancouver and Seattle are practically sisters.
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(ETA: not because I want to see America collapse, but because I like Canada and the West Coast would be a good ideological fit to most of Canada)