• Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    We did. We have religious communities who are very anti-vax in Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are insular but travel between communities for weddings and funerals and disease spreads. 5000 cases in the last couple years.

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      5 days ago

      Would be cool if our two governments could function correctly and either quarantine those communities or do force vaccines. Fuck this nut jobs, take the jab and shut the fuck up.

      • luciferofastora@feddit.org
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        5 days ago

        I assume attempting to quarantine native communities is a political minefield. On one hand, you’re risk empowering the cunts that would extend the “quarantine” beyond medical reasons. On the other, you’d have people jumping at the chance to tear you up over your imprisoning the native peoples and forcing your culture on them instead of respecting their callous disregard for disease prevention.

        It would be the rational thing to do, but politics isn’t strictly rational.

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          Hutterites in the West. First Nations have pretty good vac rates. There is a separate federal health system that handles public health for First Nations.