Unvaxxed Canadians Assigned Minders to Shop for Food

BUCK: I sent this one to Clay and the team last night. Canada… You know, the same way that I’ve said… We have to come up with a tag line. If Australia has turned into “East Germany with koalas,” then I feel like, you know, Canada has turned into, you know, the gulag with maple syrup or something. I mean, they definitely gone nutso up there over covid.

This is one of the more extreme things that has come out of covid. This is from the Canadian news broadcast. I’ll tell you, this is a real thing. They now want to have people who are unvaccinated followed by a store employee to make sure they only are allowed to buy in the store food and pharmaceuticals. No furry hat for you! None of that Mounty garb allowed or whatever they’re gonna buy. I don’t know. I’m doing some Canada stuff here. This is what they say.

HILLARY JOHNSTONE: Today, big box stores that have a footprint of 1,500-square meters or more are going to have to ask people — customers — to show proof of vaccination. Now, pharmacies and grocery will be exempt from this. So if you’re going into a Costco or a Walmart or something like that where you might be going in to buy groceries or visit a pharmacy, in that case, an employee will have to be with that person as they walk through the store to make sure that they do not go and buy other products or other items that might be in the store.

BUCK: So, Clay, I just want to be clear. If you’re a Canadian who’s unvaxxed, you could go into a Walmart, and you can buy a ham sandwich. They’ll allow that ’cause, you know, the virus is like, “Whoa, you’re just buying a ham sandwich.” But you reach for a pair of warm wool socks for those cold Canadian winters; they’re gonna have to throw you right out.

CLAY: This is unbelievable to me. So I’m unvaccinated. This is in Quebec? That’s a big province. That’s a lot of people, right? If I was able to sneak across the border into Canada — ’cause I don’t even know if I can get in the country right now unvaccinated, but if I were there — I’d go into Costco. I don’t shop a lot. It’s probably not gonna shock you, Buck, but I’m not a big shopper. So I go to, like, Costco and I go to Amazon and that’s almost exclusively where I buy.

I occasionally go to the grocery store. Okay. That means if I go into Costco — one of my favorite things I do at Costco is go by the book section; they have tons of book and they’re usually pretty cheap — I would have a minder with me in Quebec who would disallow me to look at the books while I was in Costco and would shove me back to another aisle. I couldn’t buy tennis balls. I couldn’t buy a toy for my kids. I couldn’t buy a book or a jacket.

BUCK: You’d have someone with a “Hi, My Name Is Phil” button on slapping your hand if you try to pick up a copy of White Fragility. Not allowed, sir.

CLAY: Imagine this. You are pushing your cart — I don’t know if they would let you use a cart or not, but let’s presume you’re gonna be able to use a cart — and, what? This minder would tackle your cart and…? Think about how crazy this. The minder would disallow where you could push the cart inside of a Costco, right? Because if you’re familiar with Costco, God forbid…

You’re not getting any samples, either, by the way. But if you’re familiar with a Costco, they intermix lots of different products. So you’re talking about going down an aisle, and they might have cereal, but they might also have — I don’t know — batteries not too far from the cereal, right? That batteries are impermissible.

BUCK: This a proposal for morons. You’re already breathing. If you’re expelling covid — which we all are when we’re infected, regardless of vaccination status or not, but if you’re expelling covid — it doesn’t matter if you grab a sweatshirt to go with your Cracker Jacks or whatever. This is the dumbest thing, but this is what happens. They just keep doing stupid things and they pretend like they’re not stupid and they act like we’re anti-vax and we’re bad people.