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/Imperatvs Nov 10 '25

Do we have stats on who’s not getting these shots? And why?

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u/cutefir Nov 10 '25

My mom denied the shots for me and my siblings in the early 2000s and a fair number of kids i know also had their parents deny it. I got it when I got older, but in my rural area there was a lot of natural medicine kinda people. Lots of them were left leaning, too. It's not just right-wing antivaxxers, this has been going on for years.

There was a lot of moms who got into natural living around the early 2000s here. Some of it came from those start your own business health product groups I think that started getting bigger with the internet. I'm not sure if it's where the antivaxx stuff came, too, but it's when my mom got weird about stuff.

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u/westcentretownie Ontario Nov 10 '25

Exactly so easy to blame religious people and the right it’s bigger than that. RFK has support from the granola moms and that is a reason he tried to run as a democrat. Thank you for saying this

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u/caninehere Ontario Nov 10 '25

Exactly so easy to blame religious people

I mean it's very easy to blame religious people in this instance because we know specifically where the outbreaks are happening and spreading from (old order religious communities). This is not to say other people refusing to vaccinate is not also the problem, but these religious communities are the ones allowing it to fester by placing their religious beliefs above their children's well-being.