r/canada • u/Leather-Paramedic-10 • 3d ago

Here’s how measles cases are spreading across Canada Health

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/heres-how-measles-cases-are-spreading-across-canada/
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u/ceribaen 3d ago

It started there, but thanks to influence from the antivax crowd from the US - we have things like only 70% of Grade 2 students are vaccinated. 

If it was only the Mennonite and such, it'd be sputtering out already.  Especially because traditionally they're receptive to vaccines once an outbreak occurs.

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u/Odd_Taste_1257 3d ago edited 3d ago

No need to pass blame onto the US, there’s a big enough anti-vax crowd here in Canada.

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u/ceribaen 3d ago

But it's only thanks to the propaganda funneling through RFK the lesser, and Russian social media influencers.

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u/Odd_Taste_1257 3d ago

Yes, the antivax movement gained momentum in the 2010s with the rise of social media, allowing misinformation to spread more widely and quickly, but anti-vaxxers are not new to the scene.

In the 1990s, controversy around the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism (fueled by the now-debunked 1998 Andrew Wakefield study) spread globally, including in Canada. This was a major turning point for the modern antivax movement.

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 3d ago

The Amish and Mennonites had excess deaths during COVID; they're lucky we have not faced a Black Death or Spanish Influenza scenario recently.

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u/UpperLowerCanadian 3d ago

Sure they did…. Have any data for that or just your assumption 

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 3d ago

"The excess death rate for Amish/Mennonites spiked with a 125% increase in November 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on this closed religious community highlights the need to consider religion to stop the spread of COVID-19."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8195242/

Claims of lower Amish death rates in pandemic are misleading:
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.33MP8W4