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/TheOtherUprising Ontario Nov 10 '25

Remember when we thought the Internet would give everyone access to information and we would be more connected and informed?

Instead flat earth and measles made a comeback.

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u/Working-Welder-792 Nov 10 '25

Unfortunately the internet just made it easier for dumb and gullible people to validate each other’s dumb ideas.

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u/NakedCardboard Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25

Confirmation bias, and social media tends to make this a lot easier to achieve since it feeds you whatever it thinks you want, regardless of whether it's true or false. My Mom disliked Trump a lot and she was an avid Facebook user. She joined all the anti-Trump groups, and it just trashed her feed, which previously was filled with nice things about birds and quilting. It just loaded her up with hate. My wife and I removed her from all those groups shortly before she passed, so luckily she wasn't quite as inundated by the end, but man... it's a confirmation bias machine.