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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago

Canada's status as a measles-free country is about to end

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Canada's status as a measles-free country is about to end

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago
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Canada is poised to lose its international status as a measles-free country now that an outbreak that began in New Brunswick and spread to other provinces has hit the one-year mark.

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    You can thank anti vax religious groups.

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      am religious, still got my vaccines and going for my COVID and Flu next week. next generalizing you would like to make?

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        Talk about generalization, guess you are not Mennonite then. They were the main spreaders. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-measles-outbreak-taber-alberta-vaccines-faith-small-town/

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          i get that but its not the fault of religion. not every religious person is anti-vaxx

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            No, but many religions are.

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              well im roman catholic, and from what i’ve read in the bible and from what the pope hasn’t said about vaccines, theres nothing i find that stops me from taking it that’s against my faith, and i also don’t take the bible literally as of course there are things that i consider not “cannon” anymore (like the topics on homosexuals, i support gay rights).

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      It’s the hippies in my area that are the anti vaxxers.

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        its as if it has nothing to do with religion or being a hippie and all about being on extreme ends of the political spectrum.

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          My friends aren’t extremist. It’s just a fundamental distrust of our government, which given our current states, is justified, rationally or not.

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            its justified? yikes im glad im anti-social

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              You trust your government and who it’s working for?

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                yeah why? are you actually going to argue vaccines right now?

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                  My argument isn’t about vaccines. It’s just anecdotal reasons behind the motivations of certain groups. I’m not anti-vax because I have a bit of understanding of the science behind it. But blindly trusting your government is also dangerous.

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                    man so many people on here live existing lives being paranoid.

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      Religion is the gateway drug. If you can get people to believe that, you can get them to believe anything.

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