By Miss Kubelik
You may never have heard of this brand of ice cream, but it's apparently a staple here in Canada. They're also a responsible employer.
Recently, Chapman's offered a raise to its hourly workers who got double doses of the COVID vaccine. They figured it was a win-win: Employees would stay safe and well, they'd get more money, and everybody would enjoy a feel-good story about beating the virus. Right?
Hm, maybe not. Because nutcase anti-vaxxers — who, sad to say, inhabit the True North as well as that crazy place down south — were so outraged at all the good will and civic responsibility that they tried to organize a boycott. (It's not clear how they planned to convince people to give up ice cream for politics. Come on — it's ICE CREAM.)
Anyway, the better news is that the boycott has fizzled faster than a punctured Thanksgiving Day parade balloon: "A call to boycott Chapman’s Ice Cream by groups opposed to COVID-19
vaccine mandates has actually led to a groundswell of support for the [Ontario]-based ice cream company," Canadian media report.
Company vice president Ashley Chapman summed it up well. "There is a certain percentage of the population where there is nothing
you can say and nothing you can do to appease them," he said. "They
are going to attack you until they are blue in the face, and I am
telling you there are a lot of anti-vaxxers that are blue in the face
right now because whatever they are trying to do about boycotting
Chapman’s is falling flat." We cats PURR.
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