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streetfestival ( streetfestival@lemmy.ca )  to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago

Six infants born with congenital measles in Ontario from unvaccinated mothers

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Six infants born with congenital measles in Ontario from unvaccinated mothers

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streetfestival ( streetfestival@lemmy.ca )  to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago
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TORONTO - Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb
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  • kbal ( kbal@fedia.io ) 
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    Why are there people old enough to be mothers who are unvaccinated? I thought it was just people whose brains were addled by the pandemic not vaccinating their kids.

    • jade52 ( jade52@lemmy.ca ) 
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      I remember being a young adult (I’m 38 now) and hearing about anti-vaxxing in the media. In the early -mid 2000s Jenny McCarthy and I think a few other celebrities were on the “vaccines cause autism” train.

    • Reannlegge ( Reannlegge@lemmy.ca ) 
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      A kid I went who was in my Elementary class had a parent or parents who were antivax, among other things. I was left I am now somewhere in my late 30’s.

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      My daughter in grade 7 just had her last round of needles. Based on her observations you should be concerned at the amount of children who now do not get any shots for “reasons”.

      It’s gonna get worse. A lot worse. I do what I can to educate her and her friends when I see them in the hopes one day they will get their shots but I’m not optimistic.

      Vaccines are a victim of their own success.

    • prodigalsorcerer ( prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca ) 
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      There’s a good chance that many or all of these cases are in the Mennonite community.

  • NotAGamer ( NotAGamer@lemmy.org ) 
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    Not vaccinating your kids is child abuse and she be prosecuted as such including losing your kids.

    • jagged_circle ( jagged_circle@feddit.nl ) 
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      Is that not already the case?

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        It’s not but it should be.

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      • NotAGamer ( NotAGamer@lemmy.org ) 
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        I get that these kids were born with measles because their mothers weren’t vaccinated but that doesn’t change my statement. The mothers should have been vaccinated when they were kids. Still child abuse.

  • MyMotherIsAHamster ( MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Fuck every last anti-vaxxer - dangerous idiots, all.

  • 5paceThunder ( 5paceThunder@lemmy.ca ) 
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    This is how you start the zombie apocalypse

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      Imagine a standard zombie apocalypse movie. Someone comes up with a vaccine, but instead of the ending showing helicopters and planes transporting them, happy people leaving ships, people cheering in camps and getting mass-vaccinated, a new war just starts. Armed antivaxxers destroying labs, produced vaccines and vaccination centers, and the entire humanity just fucking dies.

      THE END

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    Now, that’s a statistic that conservatives could get behind. Unfortunately it’s not convenient for them. So they won’t.

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    Isn’t this attempted murder of an infant?

    Make vaccinations obligatory already ffs

    Jail all anti vaxxers. If you promote anti vaccin bullshit, you risk lives, you go to jail. I don’t care about the ethics part of that question anymore as these anti vaxxers never cared about ethics either.

    If you talk dangerous nonsense then we need to make you stop talking.

    Don’t come with me with “but muh rights! First amendment because I’m American and that is the only country in the world!” because your rights end when you endanger my life and the lives of children

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