Cancel the Mandates, Leave the Workers Alone

Protesters demonstrate against COVID-19 mandates near the Pacific Highway border crossing in Surrey, B.C., on Feb. 19, 2022. Jeff Sandes/The Epoch Times

Commentary

President Joe Biden recently extended the U.S. national emergency for covid-19. A confrontation between truckers protesting Canadian covid mandates and the government in Ottawa has turned ugly. The debate over covid mandates has turned toward authoritarian tactics rather than the merits of the mandates. Irrespective of the debate on the merits of covid mandates over the past two years, at the present time, covid mandates have become a solution in search of a problem.