Measles Is Coming Back. We’re Not Prepared | The Tyee
Measles Is Coming Back. We’re Not Prepared | The Tyee
Canada is below the required immunity threshold to sustain elimination. How did we get here?
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We’ve known since at least 2019 that the measles virus can effectively erase immunity to diseases contracted earlier. So we might survive measles only to contract opportunistic infections we’ve had before and thought we’d beaten... including COVID-19.
And we now know that repeated COVID-19 infections, however “mild,” can increase the likelihood of long COVID — which can do serious damage to the brain, heart, gut and kidneys. Statistics Canada estimates that 3.5 million Canadians have had long COVID symptoms, and in June 2023 half of those still reported no improvement. More than two in five were still experiencing long COVID symptoms a year after infection.
But a whole bunch of us just don't give a shit about anyone except ourselves.
So go ahead deniers ... lose all your immunity to the flu, colds, chicken pox, polio, etc etc etc and see how you like it.
One thing I would really like to remind everyone is there are many people out there immune to some vaccines. My son could not get into the range of efficacy, and every year we were terrified some antivaxxer would get him sick. This poor kid couldn't go to pools, amusement parks, etc, until finally at 16 it worked.
I didn't understand how moronic the public was until I had a doctor say to us "I wish there was another way, but you basically have to keep him out of crowds."
There is another way - get fucking vaccinated. So these people don't just kill themselves, they bring people like my son with them.
"BuT I dOn't WanT to pUt uNknOwN CheMiCaLs iNtO my boDy." they say as they smoke two packs a day and are on several prescriptions.
Or they eat processed foods, most of which have additives.
Or take random supplements online "recommended" by their favourite podcasters/youtubers.
How did you know the vaccines weren't taking?
I don't remember ever being checked with a follow up blood test?
Is that something that just happens when your really young and I'd never remember?
In our case the doctors came and did a test. I am not sure of the kind, and found the levels were low. Then they repeated this each time. Sorry I can't be more specific, it was.. 17 years ago when he had the first one. Wow, time flies.
Ah okay, so it is probably just a standard thing for kids that kids never remember.
Yes, you get measels (MMR and MMRV) at about a year old, then a booster around 1.5 years old, but is required to attend school.
I mean yes, but thats not what i meant. It must be standard that Dr's check if it worked on young kids to see if levels are low. Part of early childhood checkups
Even if they or their children get sick it is unlikely to change their minds. So many on the old HCA sub never saw the error of their ways.
Can we get the HCA here?
I guess we could if it isn't already.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
But a whole bunch of us just don’t give a shit about anyone except ourselves.
I think it's the opposite.
People who “don't believe in vaccines” don't care about themselves, they actually hate themselves, and quite possibly their family.
For them, not getting a vaccine is like chain-smoking around people. They don't care about anyone by that point.
The real tragedy is that their actions have consequences for people who love their lives and want to be safe and healthy.
I don't think that's true. I work closely with a lot of different families in my job, and due to the demographics of my job, we get a reasonable section of anti-vaxxers. Most of them you wouldn't be able to pull out of a lineup. They care about their kids, they contribute to their communities, and they're just trying to get through whatever challenges they have to get through each day.
I would put the root causes as distrust and fear. Distrust of government, systems, the media, etc. and fear of what they don't understand, so they look for some explanations that align with their emotions.
So, for instance, vaccines hurt, don't make sense (they don't understand the science), and make their kids cry, so they're very emotionally invested in not liking them. Then anyone confirming their distrust and supporting their emotions will easily sway them, so they swallow anti-vaxx messages whole.
Same thing for anti 2SLGBTQ+ sentiment; they think trans people are "icky", have an emotional response to it, and are then primed for any conspiracy theory that confirms their distrust of the system (education system, in this case) and gives them an excuse to justify their emotional response. It resolves their cognitive dissonance.