MaLyMay 26
Jace 

Alberta now has over 600 confirmed cases of measles. The entire United States, with 10× the population has 1050+.

Alberta is more than halfway to the U.S. total and closing fast. This is Danielle Smith’s Alberta, where UCP priorities favour ideology over public health, and their sheer failure to act fuels preventable outbreaks.

FIRE THE UCP. #abpoli #alberta

May 26 at 2:40amWeb
Show threadKitkat, summer hate accountMay 26
@jace not to remove anything from the Alberta criticism, but the US infrastructure was already shit and has been basically dismantled, so their numbers are severely underreported
Show threadDavid Mitchell May 26

@jace

Not surprising that the hot spots in Canada are the two most committed conservative governments (AB, ON)

Comparing case levels between Canada and the US is tricky because we have much better surveillance system… who knows how many uncounted cases are hiding in rural Texas?

But your point stands: that this is an outbreak centred in conservative strongholds on both sides of the border, fuelled by their wacky anti-science stance.

Show thread🇨🇦 Maverick ✊🇲🇲🇺🇦May 26

@jace Not to be “That Guy” but Alberta’s population is way lower than you’re making it sound here. I know you meant to say “The entire US, with 10x the population of all of Canada, has 1050+.”

So it’s actually much worse than you made it sound. 🧐

Show threadTomWilsonYEGMay 26
@jace
Alberta's next step will be to restrict access to the statistics of communicable diseases.
Vaccines have the obstacle of a poke with a needle which for many is an obstacle to be overcome. Governments need to help by encouraging motivating people to vaccinate.
Show threaddragonfrogMay 26

@jace in the States, the secretary of health and human services had prohibited testing people who work with livestock for bird flu, because he didn't like that there were cases detected.

So I wouldn't put much stock in the US case numbers.

Show threadJoakim MelinMay 27
@jace https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/05/danielle-smith-demands-referendum-to-separate-measles-from-albertans/
Danielle Smith demands referendum to separate measles from Albertans

EDMONTON – As Alberta suffers its worst measles outbreak since the 1980s, Premier Danielle Smith has called on Albertans to demand a better deal from the airborne disease.  

The Beaverton
Show threadGreengordonMay 27

@joacim @jace

About right:

"Fittingly, a small minority of us are going to do our best to decide the entire province’s fate,” said a measles-infected Albertan."

Show thread@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPEMay 27
@joacim @jace "As we all know, medical science has yet to find a way to prevent preventable diseases" 🤣
Show threadJoakim MelinMay 27
@NovaNaturalist @jace Here I am, thinking Canadians were the sensible ones.
Show threadatlovatoMay 27
@jace - We can blame RFK jr "Worm Head" for this fiasco.