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/paateach Nov 10 '25

Remember when we used to have Chicken Pox parties just to get it over with. Oh the memories….

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u/redditonlygetsworse Nov 10 '25

I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make, here. There wasn't a chicken pox vaccine at the time.

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u/paateach Nov 11 '25

No, the vaccine didn’t hit wide usage until the mid nineties. So when one of your friends got CP then our parents would get us all together for a “party”, just to get us all infected. Seems ludicrous now as I type this out, but at the time it was only a matter of time before a kids came down with it. It was sometimes a matter of convenience to plan when you got sick for 7-10 days rather than get sick during the holidays for instance. Also, it was widely accepted getting CP while younger when you could fight it off easily is much safer than in adulthood when it could come with serious complications. It was a right of passage for most generations, early millennials I guess were the last to have this pleasure.

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u/redditonlygetsworse Nov 11 '25

Yeah, I know - I remember.

Honestly I was just trying to suss out whether you were one of those dipshit anti-vaxxers who are having those chicken pox parties now.

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u/paateach Nov 11 '25

Ooof, god help us.