DefinitelyVaccinated adults should get their immunity checked, its possible to lose immunity over decades (I did).
How does one get immunity checked?
Ask your doc to check for it with you bloodwork. Its just one more vial/tube of blood to be drawn.
Or just get a MMR shot because it’s free.
Absolutely. Why bother with the test?
My wife and I both did before having kiddos. It was extra protection for them, especially when they’re most vulnerable as infants, but also for us. It was super easy to book and get done and, of course, free.
Even if you still have immunity, a booster will make it more effective anyway.
which wastes money and resources. Just get an MMR booster.
TY. Follow up question; this is Canada… How does one acquire this mythical “doc” of which you speak?
Edit: Big love to all the people commenting “I had no problem finding a GP” with the exact energy of the average boomer telling everyone that getting a job and buying a house was easy for them.
Oddly enough (because in many ways it is the red-headed stepchild of Quebec regions), everyone in the Pontiac region of Quebec, west of Gatineau/Hull, has a family doctor. We were assigned one within a month of receiving our provincial health cards.
I’ve been waiting for five years now, but I know others that have been waiting for eleven. My SO and I have been invited to some healthcare system by Telus in the interim, but availability of doctors and appointments are spotty at best. And Legault is about to gut the system further.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/legault-doctors-compensation-9.6951562
Yes, Quebec’s health system seems to be one step below the rest of Canada. That’s why it’s very odd that The Pontiac has no orphan patients. And the doctors don’t seem to be overworked. When I have called my GP, I can usually get an appointment within a week.
I walked by a clinic on my way to the bakery, took their contact info, called them and asked if they were accepting patients. They were, so me and my wife signed up.
I think people expect to sit on their ass smoking dope and have an MD come to their door.
I mean, there is a literal registry list here in BC and you’re supposed to be matched in the order you were put on it, minus some triag for specific things that might boost you.
don’t let the one you’re hopefully already have die. if they die, then you’re stuck.
if you don’t have one, Galen Westin will most certainly underpay one for you in the private industry
It’s more fun than that, even if you get one there’s no guarantee they’ll be any good!
Gotta love doctors who ignore you and give you painkillers to make you go away, and can’t read the bold text on forms you pay them to fill out.
I’ve never had a problem getting a GP.
Thanks Alberta.
Ontario too.
Yeah, we do hicks as well or even better than Berta.
Them degens from upcountry
As an Albertan, I’m also angry. The reputation here is earned.
Sure is. Love Alberta, got me out of student debt, met tons of great people, seriously tons. But Alberta is proudly and deliberately dumb as fuck. It’s like Alberta prides itself on doing every idiot thing the Americans do
You can thank anti vax religious groups.
It’s the hippies in my area that are the anti vaxxers.
its as if it has nothing to do with religion or being a hippie and all about being on extreme ends of the political spectrum.
My friends aren’t extremist. It’s just a fundamental distrust of our government, which given our current states, is justified, rationally or not.
its justified? yikes im glad im anti-social
You trust your government and who it’s working for?
yeah why? are you actually going to argue vaccines right now?
My argument isn’t about vaccines. It’s just anecdotal reasons behind the motivations of certain groups. I’m not anti-vax because I have a bit of understanding of the science behind it. But blindly trusting your government is also dangerous.
Religion is the gateway drug. If you can get people to believe that, you can get them to believe anything.
am religious, still got my vaccines and going for my COVID and Flu next week. next generalizing you would like to make?
Talk about generalization, guess you are not Mennonite then. They were the main spreaders. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-measles-outbreak-taber-alberta-vaccines-faith-small-town/
i get that but its not the fault of religion. not every religious person is anti-vaxx
No, but many religions are.
well im roman catholic, and from what i’ve read in the bible and from what the pope hasn’t said about vaccines, theres nothing i find that stops me from taking it that’s against my faith, and i also don’t take the bible literally as of course there are things that i consider not “cannon” anymore (like the topics on homosexuals, i support gay rights).
Thanks Berta!
Alberta here. Sorry folks. :-(
I have never wanted to punch so many people in their good fenced faces as much as this decade has done to me.
Do we get it back if Alberta secedes?
