• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        fun fact tetanus is in the same genus as botilnium bacterium. clostridium, 3 most virulent species: C.BOTILINUM, C.TETANI, and C.difficile. honnorable mentions is C. perfringes(gangrene)

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      In Ontario and Alberta we have a lot, like seriously a lot, of really dumb people. Anti-Vaxers, Maple MAGAs, etc. Ever wanted to see the Confederate flag flown in the most Northern part of the continent possible? cool, go to Dryden Ontario.

      84% of the cases came from these places.

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        Ever wanted to see the Confederate flag flown in the most Northern part of the continent possible? cool, go to Dryden Ontario.

        Fuuuuuck, that’s next-level stupid. I remember some stupid redneck I had the displeasure of knowing had one hanging up in his room in Pennsylvania. I asked him if he knew he was born and also now living ABOVE the Mason-Dixon line and WTF is that flag even hanging up there for?

        Dude stared at me like a dog trying to comprehend calculus. Mumbled something about “heritage”. I asked what that could even mean since he was born in York, PA.

        But FFS, flying that traitorous flag of losers up in Canada? What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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          Saw it walking in a small town in the Netherlands, once. Disconcerting.

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            This was back in the early 90s. I’m assuming now that Republicans like Pedonald and Nick Fuentes are now going mask-off with their fascism, and creating a permission structure for assholes, wingers are probably upping the ante to show how “edgy” they are. Back then flying a Confederate flag north of the Mason-Dixon line was just a way of signaling what a dickhead you are w/o just putting up a swastika outright, because it had deniability, at least to other assholes and the rather clueless (“heritage”, lol).

            But now, I would not be surprised if a few dickheads are putting up a few swastikas now because the flag of Southern losers is probably quite basic bitch stuff.

            In the Netherlands, I’m assuming flying that flag was much the same kind of reverse-virtue signaling. I know parts of Europe also (used to?) ban Nazi things, so I’m assuming this was a way of not violating the law, while still showing what a tool you are.

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        I knew alberta was full of rednecks, but it saddens me to hear that the province of the capital, ontario is also full of them too.

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        started by jenny mccarthney, started the movement at least, rather strange jim and her stop promoting it after 2015. thats why it used to be mostly midwestern white women.

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      A large part is people find it difficult to get vaccinated (whether that’s the case or not), and then a wedding super spreader event got it into the Mennonite population who boosted the numbers by a lot.

      For the difficulty you don’t have to go to a doctor, but people don’t know that. The wait time to see doctors is high and a ton of people can’t get a family doctor. Then a lot of places don’t have a vaccination location within a 40 minute drive, so they don’t do it for the hassle. And they stopped enforcing measles vaccination for kids in school during COVID.

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      It didn’t. There have been outbreaks in various states since the summer

      Edit: I was incorrect:

      A country is considered to have endemic measles if there has been uninterrupted transmission from a single outbreak of the virus that has lasted 12 months or longer

      source

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        We did. We have religious communities who are very anti-vax in Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are insular but travel between communities for weddings and funerals and disease spreads. 5000 cases in the last couple years.

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          Would be cool if our two governments could function correctly and either quarantine those communities or do force vaccines. Fuck this nut jobs, take the jab and shut the fuck up.

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            I assume attempting to quarantine native communities is a political minefield. On one hand, you’re risk empowering the cunts that would extend the “quarantine” beyond medical reasons. On the other, you’d have people jumping at the chance to tear you up over your imprisoning the native peoples and forcing your culture on them instead of respecting their callous disregard for disease prevention.

            It would be the rational thing to do, but politics isn’t strictly rational.

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              Hutterites in the West. First Nations have pretty good vac rates. There is a separate federal health system that handles public health for First Nations.

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          kagis

          https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8d39gdr0o

          Kimie is one of more than 3,800 in Canada who have been infected with measles in 2025, most of them children and infants. That figure is nearly three times higher than the number of confirmed US cases, despite Canada’s far smaller population.

          Now Canada is the only western country listed among the top 10 with measles outbreaks, according to CDC data, ranking at number eight. Alberta, the province at the epicentre of the current outbreak, has the highest per capita measles spread rate in North America.

          The data raises questions on why the virus is spreading more rapidly in Canada than in the US, and whether Canadian health authorities are doing enough to contain it.

          The hardest-hit provinces have been Ontario and Alberta, followed by Manitoba.

          In Ontario, health authorities say the outbreak began in late 2024, when an individual contracted measles at a large Mennonite gathering in New Brunswick and then returned home.

          Mennonites are a Christian group with roots in 16th-Century Germany and Holland, who have since settled in other parts of the world, including Canada, Mexico and the US.

          Some live modern lifestyles, while conservative groups lead simpler lives, limiting the use of technology and relying on modern medicine only when necessary.

          Ms Friesen noted that Canada has a higher concentration of conservative Low German-speaking Mennonites than the US, which may be a factor behind the higher number of cases.

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    Quit reading after they referred to the measles vaccine as getting a jab, that’s magat language and I don’t listen to magats.

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      Yeah I find it it weird when people refer to it as a “vaxx” as well. It’s a vaccine, not a gamertag! Though xXx_m3as1es_31iminat0r_xXx would be a nice gamertag.

      I like to call it a “vaccine” or maybe a “shot”, and I am wondering if this is a regional thing.

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      I think that’s fairly common parlance in the UK for vaccines. Although this website is an American one, but just thought I’d throw that out there.

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      Without intending to make a statement on the MAGA-status of the writer, I do feel that I’ve heard the term “jab” applied to vaccinations and needle insertion (blood draw, etc.) for far longer than Trump has been on the political scene. I’m fairly sure common use of the term in the U.S. goes back enough that this might not be a strong indicator of MAGA writing.

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      The entire article is 4 sentences, and you stopped reading in the middle of sentence 3? Were there other clues as to a maga bias about a Canadian outbreak of measles?

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    I see things like Mennonites getting blamed, and even if they are 100% unvaccinated, it seems like they would not really be a factor if vaccination rates were kept up for the general pop?

    I think even that population would be given some protection if nearly 100% of the general population were to be vaccinated, no?

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      In principle, yes, but isolated unvaccinated communities can still have major incidents just from one contact. E.g. Germany is at around 97% and a couple weeks ago there was a small outbreak involving a bunch of unvaccinated children.

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    Remind me again which administration—which you promoted—is allowing this to happen?

    All these fake internet points have been sooo worth it, I bet.

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    considering how important health has been since the inception of the United States think healthcare would have been a priority

    even presidents like Lincoln had to deal with shotty healthcare with those mercury pills

    hundreds of years of needing healthcare but we are still dealing with this horseshit