Should be noted that Ontario has more cases than Alberta
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Canadas dumbest province led by Alberta’s stupidest people. Congrats, morons.
Does the US still have a working reporting system?
Their measles information page is here. The data seems complete, just not as nicely compiled as it used to be. [Their respiratory illnesses page is here.]
Don't know, the weekly reporting system reports stopped coming months ago. I thought it was just me switching to New Outlook but I guess it's everyone?
Alberta is the most conservative and most religious province in Canada. The Prime Minister of Alberta is a woman named Danielle Smith.
This is what she said two years ago:

Alberta is very rich because they have a ton of oil. But it's really badly managed.
Norway has a lot of oil, but Norwegians have an investment fund to help future generations. Norwegians have strong labor rights. They are very environmentally conscious. They try to reduce plastics, they travel by bicycle, they use electric cars.
Alberta is the exact opposite. The big oil companies are privately owned. Local politicians oppose measures to reduce plastics pollution:

Alberta politicians also blame a lot of their local problems on Canada.
It's just sad.
Alberta is like all the worst states rolled into one.
I got my measles booster this year and it was no worse than a COVID shot. Scheduling at my local pharmacy it was easy and I got no pushback. (CT, USA)
I'm from the era where we only got 1 shot and now the recommendation is 2 shots for best coverage. I may have gotten a second shot as a kid but I have no record or recollection of it. I figured it's better to be sure.
First thing i could think of is what the coach from letterkenny would say.
Wild, we all got vaccinated against measles as kids here, crazy that Alberta doesn't have they kind of free healthcare yet.
Living in the dark ages.
I am in Saskatchewan and have been fully vaccinated but I am sure Saskatchewan is not far behind.
Alberta has the single worst premier in Canada

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:
He was rewarded with nothing but contempt and lies:

I may disagree with Trudeau on plenty of things, but claiming he was anti-Alberta is a shameless lie.
In January 2025, Smith was the only Premier who REFUSED to sign a joint declaration, saying Canada will hit back if it faces economic bullying:
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 United States should temporarily pause tariffs in order to help Pierre Poilievre:
Smith sickens me. In the military, this is the kind of officers who always end up shot by their own troops.
The "Alberta Advantage" in action folks!
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?
When I looked into it a couple weeks ago, most (?all) of Alberta infections were also among the unvaccinated Mennonites. In Texas and New Mexico, it spread between different unvaccinated Mennonite communities through meetings for worship and homeschooling, then spread fractionally among those who had contact with the infected Mennonite communities. I imagine the spread pattern is similar in Alberta and Ontario.
Conservative religious groups, and Mennonites are part of that, already have a strong distrust of government. They were targeted, ridiculed and ostracized when the covid vaccines came out and that did nothing to reassure them that the gov is looking out for their best interest, so this latest outbreak isn't going to make them suddenly swing toward being pro vaccines. If anything they're going to pull back even more which is why we have such a huge measles outbreak. Its not going to change easily as the mistrust runs deep.
And its no wonder - there were Amish people (a related group) who were charged for not getting a covid vaccine passport and had to go to court to argue that their faith doesnt allow them to use that kind of technology. They DID win their case and the charges were dropped but once again the distrust in gov grows.
ps. Just a correction but the Mennonites actually came from Europe, followers of Menno Simons who who was a former Catholic priest who was excommunicated for his reformational ideas. We settled in Mexico, the US and Canada after running from persecution so this mistrust in gov is a deeply held part of culture. Some Mennos are still quite conservative, others are quite liberal and you couldn't tell them from any other Canadian.
Conservative religious groups, and Mennonites are part of that, already have a strong distrust of government.
that's not true. many governments around the world are substantially controlled by people who are members of conservative religions. and lots of conservative religious organizations are well integrated into their relevant governments. to the point of theocracies, which don't tend towards being extremely progressive.
If you hear about a place that the Catholic Church is controlling party of the government, you don't think "Oh I bet it's some wild Liberation Theology situation where the women are free and there are land reforms to redistribute the land equally". You know it'll be some regressive, repressive backwards ass shit show.
there were Amish people (a related group) who were charged for not getting a covid vaccine passport
Where? Where has a "vaccine passport" even been implemented?
Is it that Alberta has so many cases, or that RFK's health department has stopped reporting US cases?
Or some combination of both?
Snow Texas.
While Alberta is a cesspit of antivaxxers, I can't help but wonder how broken the reporting system is in most of the US.
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