Higgs abandons pledge to make life ‘uncomfortable’ for the unvaccinated – CBC
Premier says New Brunswick’s COVID-19 hospitalizations are decreasing and society is ‘moving on’
Feb 15, 2022
Premier Blaine Higgs has abandoned a pledge to make life “increasingly uncomfortable” for the unvaccinated.
Asked whether the province’s plan to introduce measures targeting New Brunswickers who don’t get their COVID-19 shots is off the table, he replied, “I would say so.”
“I think that, you know, we’re moving on as a society and, you know, we’re looking at our hospitalizations and they’re coming down. They’re kind of stabilized, but they’re certainly not going up.”
Hospitalizations hit a pandemic record-high of 165 on Feb. 2. As of Tuesday, they stood at 101.
New Brunswick recorded another COVID-related death Tuesday, marking 65 deaths in the 18 days since the province returned to Level 2 from the most restrictive Level 3.
A month ago, when Higgs announced a 16-day lockdown to slow the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant and to allow time to administer more booster doses and vaccines, he said the province was “going to do what is necessary to protect all of New Brunswickers and to compel people to get vaccinated.”
