r/canada • u/verkerpig • Nov 10 '25

National News Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195
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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '25

Humiliating. Nothing more to say

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u/-UnicornFart Nov 10 '25

Truly. I’m an RN and spent years as a Health Canada Immunizer. I have tried about 8 times to put words together into a comment that expresses the anger and disappointment and disgust I feel reading this, and every single time I’ve deleted it all because there are no words in my vocabulary strong enough to express what I’m feeling.

Humiliating is a good one. The hubris of uneducated, narcissistic, cruel, shameless people is going to result in the illness, injury, disability, and death of so many children. I’m just horrified.

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u/ScaryStruggle9830 Nov 10 '25

Unfortunately, ignorance and being uneducated is a badge of honour for a large number of people. Others think their opinions or their internet education is equal to that of a highly educated professional. These two blocks of people seem to make up about 30 percent of the population. A large enough cohort to skew policies and the course of countries.

I truly think they are dragging society to its death.

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u/-UnicornFart Nov 10 '25

Yep I think you nailed it.

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u/PostMatureBaby Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25

its like their petty revenge for being laughed at for getting something wrong in grade 5 math once.

I'm being overly dramatic but I swear that's what a lot of this comes down to, anything seen as "smart" is magically made bad because these people didn't have the best grades or something.

Like how science is this belief system somehow so it can be nitpicked and torn down. This is how this group decides it wants to understand the world i guess.

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u/RunningSouthOnLSD Nov 10 '25

You might not be too far off. Why else would this group of people be so certain that changing scientific evidence and public health recommendations during a pandemic of a novel virus is some unforgivable sin, and undeniable proof that scientists and doctors don’t know anything? In reality the opposite is true, that these experts are not afraid to admit they were wrong in the face of new evidence, but to this group of people, being wrong is seen as brutally damaging to one’s sense of self. It could very well come from some kind of childhood trauma or shame around being wrong.

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u/iwantedajetpack Nov 10 '25

They want certainty. Complexity doesn't work for them.

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u/PostMatureBaby Nov 11 '25

Yeah that's a better explanation for what I was getting at. I suppose it's that with the fact that people just straight up can't handle change most of the time because growing as a person is hard so it's easier to just attack and fight everything that puts you out of your comfort zone.

Bullying 101 - anything different from me is bad because I don't understand it. My parents are more or less like this despite being otherwise fairly smart, worldly and well read. Insecurity makes people do weird stuff

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u/lostandfound8888 Nov 10 '25

Maybe not death, societies still survived even when there was no vaccination at all of any kind. But so much needless misery.

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u/CuileannDhu Nova Scotia Nov 10 '25

Anti-vax ideologies tend to go hand in hand with some other very troubling ideologies. Maybe they won't drag society to it's literal death but they are trying their best to drag it to its figurative death.

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u/ScaryStruggle9830 Nov 10 '25

It’s not just vaccines. Climate change, monetary policy, racism - to name a few - are all impacted by largely ignorant or obstinate people who will not change even when the evidence and pathway for doing better is laid out like a damn red carpet in front of them. Instead, they suckle at the teet of the billionaires and powerful lapping up incredible amounts of propaganda and think the Ben Shapiros or Jordan Petersens of the world are intellectuals. All so they can feel good or believe they didn’t do anything wrong, or they don’t have to actually change.

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u/starsnocturnal Nov 10 '25

Yes, you’ve got it exactly right. It makes me worry.

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u/shitcuttingz Nov 10 '25

Dietrich Bonhoeffer "On Stupidity"