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Unlike Beer, I did not get up early this morning to listen to a far away soccer game on the wireless.
Instead, it was down to the river's end with the Whackadoodle II for me.
On our way home, while doing my darnedest to get the new hybrid down to 5 litres per 100 km, we listened to the most recent Front Burner podcast from the CBC.
It was about Canada's measles problem which, by official case counts at least, is actually worse than the entire United States, just in Ontario.
Host Jayme Poisson and health reporter Jennifer Yoon discussed the critical issue of declining vaccination rates with sensitivity and nuance before getting down to the crux of the public health matter - the ability of families to request exemptions such that their children can attend public school unvaccinated.
They even spoke to the Globe's Andre Picard, who has been very clear about the lack of a either a mainstream religious or philosophical basis for allowing such exemptions.
So far so good, right?
Then they played a clip of Ontario premier Doug Ford responding thusly to a reporter asking if childhood vaccinations should be mandatory for school attendance:
Unlike Beer, I did not get up early this morning to listen to a far away soccer game on the wireless.
Instead, it was down to the river's end with the Whackadoodle II for me.
On our way home, while doing my darnedest to get the new hybrid down to 5 litres per 100 km, we listened to the most recent Front Burner podcast from the CBC.
It was about Canada's measles problem which, by official case counts at least, is actually worse than the entire United States, just in Ontario.
Host Jayme Poisson and health reporter Jennifer Yoon discussed the critical issue of declining vaccination rates with sensitivity and nuance before getting down to the crux of the public health matter - the ability of families to request exemptions such that their children can attend public school unvaccinated.
They even spoke to the Globe's Andre Picard, who has been very clear about the lack of a either a mainstream religious or philosophical basis for allowing such exemptions.
So far so good, right?
Then they played a clip of Ontario premier Doug Ford responding thusly to a reporter asking if childhood vaccinations should be mandatory for school attendance:
"...It's a good point, but how do you force someone? Do you grab their kid and start jabbing them with a needle?..."
And how did Poisson and Yoon respond to this codswallop after they had just explained that mandatory vaccinations for school attendance would work to both increase vaccination rates and prevent communicable disease spread in schools?
Did they state uneqivocally that Mr. Ford was obfuscating and risking making a dangerous communicable childhood disease that was deemed eradicated in Canada almost thirty years ago endemic once again?
Of course not.
Instead, they skated and only tangentially discussed how there is a political element to all of this stuff.
Did they state uneqivocally that Mr. Ford was obfuscating and risking making a dangerous communicable childhood disease that was deemed eradicated in Canada almost thirty years ago endemic once again?
Of course not.
Instead, they skated and only tangentially discussed how there is a political element to all of this stuff.
Sheesh.
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In retrospect, perhaps I listened to the wrong public broadcaster's offerings this morning.
The thing is that, unlike Beer, I don't actually give a hoot-in-heckfire about the fortunes of West Ham United.
Although, I must confess that I kind of like the idea of watching a soccer game in the forest of Nottingham while dodging the dastardly deeds of the sheriff.
Or some such thing.
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Hey!...I just realized how Beer's dog of yore got her name!
As for the subheader...The WII came along after the WI passed at the beginning of Covid...The WII really is C's dog, not mine.
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5 comments:
Again, growing up after the aftermath of the Polio epidemic in Canada, I remember both girls and boys, waddling to school in leg braces from the ravages of this dreaded disease and they were the lucky ones, some had to spend their entire life in an Iron Lung and many died.
I did not have to worry because I was vaccinated.
Unless one has a sound medical reason for not being vaccinated, all school children must be vaccinated and any politician or religious order that believes otherwise are nothing more than gross child abusers, perverts of the worse sort.
The anti-vax crowd are ignorant and should be treated as ignorant.
Doug Ford should be ashamed of himself.
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According to A. Picard, we don't have a public school vaccination mandate here in B.C.:
"...Under the Immunization of School Pupils Act, all children in Ontario must be vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, meningococcal disease, whooping cough, mumps and rubella, as well as chicken pox for children born in or after 2010. (New Brunswick has a similar law, while Manitoba makes measles vaccination mandatory. Vaccines are not mandatory in other provinces or territories.)..."
That's not a good thing I reckon.
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I know a few anti-vaxers who, on religious grounds, refuse to vaccinate their children.
The question is not just schools but religious orders and if i had my way those kids would be vaccinated.
I am nothing short of gob-smacked by those who do not believe in vaxinations, god knows i still feel the effects from the damage caused by whopping cough, which I caught before there were vaxinations for.
Oh yeah Ho-rah for Notts Forest! Loved the city and the Trip, the Sal, the Children, Yates and the Bell!
Oh boy...Those may be fightin' words for Dr. Beer.
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It would make much more sense to just ban religion.
Isn't it about time to get rid of the mythology.
And my bloody sick of my tax dollars supporting idiocy!
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