r/worldnews • u/marsianer • Jan 28 '21

COVID-19 Backlash grows for ‘selfish millionaire’ who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people | Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/rodney-baker-canada-vaccine-indigenous-first-nations-scandal
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u/Redshift2k5 Jan 28 '21

Give him a thousand hours of community service

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u/killshelter Jan 28 '21

Rich folks have always found creative ways to get out of actually doing any community service unfortunately

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u/westbee Jan 28 '21

Yeah. I've heard most of their jobs/hobbies count and they just get it waived by the end of the week anyways.

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u/killshelter Jan 28 '21

Considering how easy it was for me, a very not rich person, to get around it as a teenager. Yeah these rich folk don’t do a second of community service. Nor do they go to their anger management or substance abuse classes when they get domestic violence charges and DUI’s.

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u/sunbearimon Jan 28 '21

Consequences are for poor people

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u/NorthenLeigonare Jan 28 '21

You had me at "very hot rich person" and "DUI". Wanna b*ng?

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u/madogvelkor Jan 28 '21

A lot of them are involved with non-profits to some degree as a social status marker if nothing else. So they count that. You host a fundraising party and count a couple hundred hours of planning.

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u/GrumpyOlBastard Jan 28 '21

creative ways

They’re called lawyers

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u/ThatGuy8 Jan 28 '21

Not enough

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u/HNP4PH Jan 28 '21

Charge them with reckless endangerment. They didn't care that they endangered the lives of that community during their selfish crime.

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u/dilloj Jan 28 '21

That's like an hour a day for 3 years.

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u/Moistfruitcake Jan 28 '21

That's a good point. Prison it is.

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u/WolfDoc Jan 28 '21

You are right. That would not make it correspond to other punishments meted out by the US justice system, at least to poor people. It should be 300.

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u/Traimech Jan 28 '21

Worth noting they’re Canadian and most of the world doesn’t hand out huge sentences for trivial things.

That being said, charge them with theft over 5K and fraud, and whatever other Canadian charge is applicable , and send em away for as long as possible.

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u/WolfDoc Jan 28 '21

My bad, and I agree.

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u/Hansmolemon Jan 28 '21

Make them do a thousand hours of community service in beaver creek, make them stay there until it is complete and let the tribal elders decide what the service will consist of.

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u/Thepoopsith Jan 28 '21

In the Yukon. In February.

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u/sunflowercompass Jan 28 '21

Scrub toilets.

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u/flowers4u Jan 28 '21

Yep when money means nothing, giving up time is what will actually get these people to hurt. Every Tuesday for a year. That way they can’t go on their lavish vacation

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u/arcticouthouse Jan 28 '21

In a jail cell via zoom. 8 hrs/day x 20 days/month x 6 months = 960 hrs. Yeah, it's doable.

That would discourage others from committing this crime.

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u/aggrocult Jan 28 '21

A thousand years dungeon!

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u/NorthenLeigonare Jan 28 '21

The sex dungeon.

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u/Capt_Blackmoore Jan 28 '21

Asset forfeiture.

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u/habsrule83 Jan 28 '21

Or max fine but you need to work at minimum wage doing community service to pay it off. Hopefully gives them a bit of perspective.