Canada is below the required immunity threshold to sustain elimination. How did we get here?

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    11 months ago

    If only there was a way to prevent a person from getting measles. Hell, mumps and rubella too!

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      11 months ago

      But the shot gave me 5g or whatever, they’ll know where I am all times!

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      • Neato@ttrpg.network
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        11 months ago

        More likely is that no one in the government gives 2 shits what some MAGA retiree is doing. Those types are desperate to pretend they are relevant.

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          It’s like when someone leaves a real asshole comment and then goes “I’m being brigaded!!!” lol. Naw lil buddy. You’re not that important people just saw your comment and thought you were being a jerk

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        11 months ago

        Better drink some colloidal silver in chlorine, no way could that be a scam. Gee why am I turning blue and shitting my guts out

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        11 months ago

        Have them skip the leeches, go straight to being a blood donor.

        Similar health benefit, but also help others. Last I checked, the Red Cross has declared an emergency from blood shortages, caused by fewer donors than ever.

        Just tell people it will reduce the microplastics in their bloodstream.

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    11 months ago

    Anti-vaxxers, of course. Everyone thank the anti-vaxxers with both middle fingers!

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      11 months ago

      Agreed, but not just them, it is also about making sure vaccines are properly available and accessible, the clinics are open when parents are able to get to them (or out of work hours) and that their availability is properly advertised and promoted. It needs to be made as easy as possible for people to get their kids jabbed with as little impact on their daily schedules as possible.

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      How? There has always been X number of people who do not take vaccines, the largest group are the Amish and other smaller religious groups? The crazies you speak of are a tiny minority.

      If there is more measles but the same group of people are taking the shots then measles would not increase by much. You think that people who took shots before are not taking them anymore?

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        11 months ago

        In the last 20 to 30ish years, there’s been a rise in anti-vax rhetoric, including massive campaigns specifically against the MMR vaccine.

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        11 months ago

        What do you mean, the same group of people? You take the vaccine once, usually when you are a child. So if you got it for your kid, and they decided you are an archaic, brainwashed fool and didn’t get it for theirs, there you go.

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      11 months ago

      At this point, he was a symptom. He was pushing a narrative those people already wanted to hear. They’d likely still be the way they are. They’d have found their excuse somewhere. And by now, anyone not immediately, loudly, aggressively pushing back on the bullshit narrative are bad actors with ill intentions

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        11 months ago

        He was doing it to make money. I don’t think it’s sufficient to call him a symptom. I’d argue he was one step away from bringing it to the mainstream. (That celebrity was responsible for making it mainstream imo)

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          11 months ago

          What I mean is that whether he existed or not, something was bound to mainstream the antivax movement

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    11 months ago

    Well SOME of us are prepared, since we had parents who actually cared about our lives rather than virtue-signalling to their Facebook groups.

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      That’s not how herd immunity works, once the population reaches a certain threshold it all goes to the toilet because not everybody can sustain the same immunity over long periods of time.

      Herd immunity makes it hard for the virus to jump from person to person because the statistics dictate how likely it is for transmission to occur.

      When a large amount of people are immunized it is less likely for it to jump from a newly vaccinated child to an adult that got vaccinated years ago because of the buffers that might exist in between those people.

      When a less than useful amount of people are vaccinated it is more likely that it will just jump to all of the adults with weaker immunity.

      So even if you’re immunized, sometimes that immunity goes away quickly as it did with the COVID vaccine.

      Humanity is reaping what they sowed.

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      The problem is that the voluntarily unvaccinated give the disease the chance to circulate. Once in circulation it will harm some people who are vaccinated and some people who can’t be vaccinated. Vaccination is in part an altruistic act that helps protect others. But antivaxers don’t seem to understand this notion of doing something to protect other people.

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    11 months ago

    Idiots like my sister.

    She once sternly advised me “I won’t have any chemicals in my home”

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    11 months ago

    Not sure how it is in US, but here in Australia, vaccination is required for school now (No Jab, no Play).

    Maybe you guys need that.

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        They don’t even have to provide proof they go to church

        The problem is all religious exemptions in general, not that their religious beliefs aren’t organized enough.

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        11 months ago

        Special privileges for religious people is the exact opposite of a separation of church and state.