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Ontario child under 5 dies of measles: provincial health agency
  • There is a lot of focus on whether this child should or even could have been vaccinated against measles. It is impossible to know based on the information. They were due for 0, 1 or 2 doses or MMR vaccine.

    At any rate, I would suggest reading it in the other direction: no vaccinated child has died of the measles. Vaccination prevents this disaster. It is likely (but not certain) that many other children were in contact with the same situation which ultimately led to the death of this one. Many of them didn't die because their parents took responsible steps.

    In another comment I posted the vaccine schedule for Ontatio. MMR is scheduled at 12 months of age, same as many other places. Your first dose (of the two children need) is only considered "valid" if given on or after the 1st birthday.

    However the vaccine is approved as safe and has short-term efficacy when given as young as 6 months. The immunity just doesn't "last" as long when given earlier, which is why its scheduled for 12 months where risk is low. In those communities where anti-vax people congregate, diligent parents can consider giving their children an extra dose at 6 months to cut that risky time in half.

  • Ontario child under 5 dies of measles: provincial health agency
  • In Ontario, MMR is at 12 months and varicella (chickenpox) is separate at 15 months.

    Other provinces, territories and states in Canada/US have variations and some include MMRV instead of MMR followed by Varicella.

    MMRV is scheduled routinely at age 4-6.

    An overview of the routine childhood schedule can be seen here.

    The full ontario schedule can be found here, with the routine childhood schedule being on page 3.

    By the way for anyone wondering why bother vaccinate against chickenpox, it's because chickenpox and shingles are the same thing. If you never get chickenpox you never get shingles. Shingles fucking sucks and causes blindness, untreatable pain and other miseries.

  • Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists.
    • Their menu increasingly contradicts the "traditional" vibe they promote, with newer items like Sweet Chili Chicken Loaded Wraps and Loaded Bowls, Tiramisu Cold Brew, and Blackberry Yuzu Sparkling Quenchers.

    Sounds racist.

  • ‘I feel terrible’: Wilfrid Laurier international student at centre of storm over post about how to get free food
  • Its somewhat to make money. But it also forgoes the cost of caring for and raising children. Canada likes it when people arrive with the cost of the first 18-30 years of life already paid by another community. Then we benefit from and exploit that. Often wasting advanced education as people enter the job market vastly overqualified for where they end up. (A situation which is often misrepresented to people considering a move here.)

    As it stands, running universities and many other industries would be impossible without doing this massive brain drain on other communities. Because it would entail having a less shitty public education and social support system.

    I am happy for immigrants to come here. I just find the parasitism of Canadian public policy really gross.

  • Everything freedom loving Conservatives have banned Canadians from doing in recent years
  • Don't talk on behalf of gay people you know nothing.

    Hijabs are not "fundie garb". I am not treated badly by hijabi women and have never heard anyone complain of such.

    What a vile attempt to insinuate amnosity between groups you have no involvement in.

  • Everything freedom loving Conservatives have banned Canadians from doing in recent years
  • Yes the nudists finally won a victory. All that garden of eden shame stuff is finally gone. Judges, teachers and cops no longer wear any garment whose purpose is modesty.

    Shame and modesty are of course punishment from God because of Eve having eaten the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.

  • Why can't you return empties in downtown Toronto?
  • Try leaving a few out, come back a little while later and see if they are still sitting there. Especially when its garbage collection time. Before the trucks come a can doesn't last 30 mins sitting on the street before someone comes to get it.

  • Israelis Receive ‘Public Service’ Award As Gaza Death Toll Passes 14,000
  • What Israelis Think of the War With Hamas: Polls (Nov 10, 2023):

    Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower.

  • The Greenbelt report proves it: The Ford government is corrupt
  • investigating doesn't restore anything. You know what would restore integrity? consequences.

    get a forensic accountant to dive into the finances of every one of these ghouls. As well as Including dependents, spouses, business relationships at the slightest hint of suspicion that they have been used as cover up. Innumerate each and every piece of evidence of infraction from bylaw infraction to breach of trust to being anything less that scrupulous paying taxes. Each instance its own charge and the details put into the public record. Punitive damages far larger than the value of their thefts. And they all have restrictions on engaging with politics of business for the next 20 years. Heavy fines for the smallest repeat infractions.

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