Just came across this cartogram. (I don’t see an as-of date.)
I guess Texas and Ontario have more in common than i thought.
More light reading on the subject. Sometimes even doctors need to get sick to appreciate vaccines.
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From the article:
“It wasn’t until 2011 that Edwards experienced what he called a ‘divine appointment,’ and began questioning the core tenets of American medicine. He came to believe that his patients weren’t suffering from diseases so much as experiencing symptoms of bad diets and societal rot, and that the human body was almost always capable of healing itself with hydration, movement, nutritious foods and spiritual peace.”
i think there is often a profound vanity behind some of this stuff: “im too great for this to happen to me!”
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Cuz the diseases were being vaccinated against, dumbass!
“…came to believe…” is not something I want my doctor to tell me.
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Seems the biggest challenge with vaccines today is not resetting the wisdom meter every couple generations. Would help if history classes gave fairer due to the impact of disease on history
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People tend to forget when the frequency of the diseases becomes very marginal.
They also stop seeing the people that where crippled by Polio (for example) because many have also died off.
Lack of scientific education is also a factor. The US seems to be regressing in many different ways.
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This is actually a good prescription for everyday life. Until it isn’t enough.
Measles now surging in Canada. Numbers by 100k of population.
Do you mean 38 PER 100K?
And, what is the number when people should be panicking?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-measles-status-eliminations-9.6973822
Wondering what Alberta actually did.
Did they make MMR vaccine voluntary?
Did they stop forcing people to get their kids vaccinated?
Did they simply let the anti-science crowd make laws banning the vaccine?
Did they stop procuring the vaccine for use?
From that article:
“To me, it’s a collective failure at many levels of government, public health, the health-care system to address what we saw as declining rates of vaccination over many years that got much worse since the COVID-19 pandemic and really set the stage for measles to spread like this in our country."
A lot of low IQ religious nutjobs and anti-vaxxers concentrated there.
And in Ontario, the outbreak was in the southwest where the Amish population don’t vaccinate.
The US could lose its designation by January.
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38 per 100k
Increasing anti-vaxx beliefs combined with local Government that doesn’t promote vaccinations gets you to these type of results.
Vaccination is widely promoted in Canada but it would have to be forced upon certain groups.
Anti-vax is widely promoted everywhere to everyone, via the internet. Hard to counter all that noise, but it really has to be done.
One way is by not appointing anti-vaxxers into senior public health positions…..
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