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"As an infectious diseases specialist I never would have guessed this was going to happen because measles is supposed to be eradicated."

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Alberta has the single worst premier in Canada

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/smith-apologizes-for-comparing-vaccinated-albertans-to-followers-of-hitler/

Justin Trudeau sacrificed political capital for Alberta. He opened a brand new pipeline. Under his mandate, Alberta oil production reached the highest level in HISTORY:

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/7940-another-record-year-canadian-crude-oil-crude-oil-year-review-2024

He was rewarded with nothing but contempt and LIES:

In January 2025, she was the ONLY Premier who REFUSED to sign a declaration, saying Canada will hit back if it faces economic pressure from the US:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-premiers-trudeau-meeting-trump-tariffs-1.7431085

On March 20, 2025, she gave an interview to Breitbart in which she said the Trump administration should pause tariffs in order to help Pierre Poilievre:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/lets-just-put-things-on-pause-alberta-premier-under-fire-for-breitbart-interview/

Danielle Smith sickens me. In the military, this is the kind of officers who always end up shot by their own troops.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The "Alberta Advantage" in action folks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Small pox has entered the chat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Polio is waiting in the wings for its turn to shine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh. I really wish they'd say who is getting infected and why they aren't vaccinated. Not because I want to stigmatize the group, but so we can fucking understand why public health seems to be falling apart.

In Ontario, many of the measles sufferers were Mennonites who refused vaccination before it was cool. Is that the case in Alberta?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Almost assuredly the majority are in that community. There is a very large Mennonite presence in Alberta. They are connected to the other Canadian, American and Mexican Mennonite communities as many are intermarried and related and travel between communities is very common. They have all derived from the original community in Mexico.

That being said, I lived in Alberta for 20 years and worked as a paramedic there for much of that time. There is a vast population of people who believed all that 2000's bullshit about vaccinations and autism and many never had their kids vaccinated, I can only assume that has continued through COVID shots as well. Thousands of families at least. It was very common so I imagine it has also spread outside those communities and if it hasn't it will very soon.

With the traitor tyrant in charge over there now it's only going to get worse.