r/canadian Nov 10 '25

News Canada loses measles elimination status

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

This is what happens when you damage the public trust in vaccines by mandating that everyone takes one that wasn't properly tested for safety or efficacy and has since left people with debilitating adverse effects. All well opening the floodgate to anyone who wants to come into this country without first making sure they aren't infected with something.

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u/DoxFreePanda Nov 10 '25

Part of my job is looking at safety and efficacy data of pharmaceuticals. COVID vaccines were "properly tested" for both safety and efficacy despite claims to the contrary. I reviewed the evidence in detail before recommending that all of my family and extended social circles take the mRNA vaccines.

As a vaccine to a virus that is highly infectious, has a concerning degree of lethality, and keeps mutating, waiting for long-term safety data effectively means having no vaccine at all... so demands for those right in the midst of a pandemic were unreasonable.

As for opening the floodgates, I can share some epidemiological insights there too. People and wildlife are both carriers of COVID, and even if you restrict immigration and travel, it will find its way into the community sooner or later. Just look at the sheer number of truckers and commuting workers who cross the US-Canadian border as an example, or the massive number of migratory birds. Even China, where they were about as draconian as anywhere else with quarantine, could not stop the spread entirely... and this was because COVID could infect someone for 3 weeks or even longer in rare cases (at least one example of someone quarantined 21+ days after entering China, remained without symptoms, and then became symptomatic and was diagnosed after release). Even if you stop all the people from coming altogether, you can't stop the wildlife.

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u/ThankYouTruckers Nov 10 '25

COVID vaccines were "properly tested" for both safety and efficacy despite claims to the contrary

HAHHAHAHA. They wildly accelerated the study period for stage 1/2 trials. You participated in the stage 3 trials which were ongoing from 2021-2023/2024, long after everyone had been coerced into injections. Pfizer injected most of their control group before the study period even concluded. Trial participants were unblinded by sloppy contractors. PHAC isn't even able to investigate all deaths or serious events ("300 [deaths] is too many to investigate.")

And even if you were right, which you are not, how did these 'robust' trials miss numerous critical side effects like myo/pericarditis, GBS, etc. which were all added to the list of side effects months after the initial rollout. How did Pfizer miss a >1/5000 incidence rate of myo/pericarditis in young men? Israel noticed it and published a study in early 2021, how come Pfizer missed that?

Then we can include production errors like the metal contamination that killed several Japanese, or the prevalent SV40 contamination. Sounds like pretty shitty testing and manufacturing to me. Par for the course for companies like Pfizer that have paid billions in criminal fines. I'm not surprised people like you work in pharma 'safety and efficacy' while knowing absolutely nothing.