Only a headline because of current events south of the border. Ontario does this every year at this time. Letters home before march break, several more after, likely a phone call from public health, then suspensions. The last part rarely happens because the anti-vaxxers just get an exemption for some bullshit reason. So it’s mostly just a threat so that people aren’t too lazy to get something done.
This isn't entirely true. If you check the numbers, the number of cases have steadily been going up over the last decade, which sharp rises especially the last few years. And until this year, this has only been an issue for a single month before all cases disappear for the year. But for the first time, not only are the cases several times our yearly average, but it's been going on for far longer than even last year.
We are in the middle of an outbreak, though admittedly mostly on a technical sense so far. But trends are a terrifying thing, since this year we have over 800 cases when last year it didn't reach 150, and we had a total of 16 cases for the four years before that, combined. This is across the entire nation, not just Ontario. This year alone, we have more than four times as many cases as we have the five years before it combined.
We have exceeded the greatest outbreak as far back as I can find data (about 30 years), and only the second time in that many years have we exceeded 250 cases in a single year, and we tripled that number.
This no COVID19, but this isn't something to simply ignore either.
Rare Ontario w.
Good - if you want your kids in a public school, get them vaccinated, period.
While I don't like the idea of students being suspended for having stupid parents, at the same time a certain amount of protection needs to be done for those students who's families are doing everything they can to protect them.
When anti-vaxxors create an epidemic for a virus that we had eradicated a half century ago, my sympathy goes far down, especially since while most people who gets measles recover quickly without any serious issues, it is still a virus that kills and maims a notable percentage of those that get it. Not to mention that not getting the measles vaccine means that they didn't get the MMR vaccine specifically, which covers mumps and rubella as well, all of which are highly contagious to the point that just being in the same room that someone infect was in two hours earlier can cause one go catch it.
It is true that for most people, these are mild viruses, but for the minority, they cause lifetime disabilities. It makes no sense to take such a risk when the prevention is not only free to all Ontarians, but the only side effect is suffering from a sore arm for a day or two from a vaccine three generations of people have been taking without problems. This is not about a procedure with limited proof that there are no side effects, but instead on the level that declaring soap usage might bring more harm than good.
Damn, that sucks. I didn't realize measles was getting that bad. Hopefully the kids that got it are doing ok.
Let's not be like the states and let conspiracy but jobs screaming anti-vax bs become louder than actual professionals.
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