Why All Vaccines Should Be Free

Friendly reminder that Canada was a global leader in various vaccines until Mulroney privatized Connaught labs in the 80's. Profits over public health has been the MO for the last 40 years

Mulroney, Thatcher, and Reagan were all cut from the same cloth.
- Where are you in Canada where you aren’t getting free vaccines???
- were all "shat" on the same cloth
I’m in BC. I just got a Covid and Flu shot last week free of charge. My grandchildren are getting all vaccines free.

TORONTO — Canada is poised to lose its international status as a measles-free country now that an outbreak that began in New Brunswick and spread to other provinces has hit the one-year mark.

The country eliminated measles in 1998 and maintained that status for more than 25 years, meaning there was no ongoing community transmission and new cases were travel-related.

But since Oct. 27, 2024, the virus has spread to more than 5,000 people in Canada, including two infants in Ontario and Alberta who were infected with measles in the womb and died after they were born.

Public health and infectious disease experts attribute the return of measles to declining vaccination rates, stemming from misinformation-fuelled vaccine hesitancy and distrust of science, as well as the disruption of routine immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I contracted measles in grade one, shortly before I was to receive the scheduled vaccine. Despite being healthy, I became really ill. It was the only time my mother called a doctor (house calls back then). It’s really sad that Canada was a measles-free country—and now we’re not. Misinformation, lack of education.

if anyone is paying for a vaccine other than for travel it should be free for all canadians of all backgrounds.

I’d rather travel vaccines be free than people bringing diseases we aren’t vaccinated against back here.
- If you choose to travel to another country, it’s on you to vaccinate.
- the reason i say that is because vacationing is not a right its a privilege so people should pay for those.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Perhaps we forgot that after changing to grams and kilograms.

Don't pin this on the metric system when the misinformation is largely coming from Uncle Sam.
- You have a point, but to be faaaaaair, the quote is attributed to Benjamin Franklin about fire prevention in Pennsylvania towns.

Because I am AMAB and had a M on my healthcare at the time the HPV vaccine cost me money. I was one of the first if not the first person with the M on my health card in Canada who was not in the study run by health Canada. It cost me something north of $100, I wish it would have just been in the schedule of vaccines given out but since then every few years I make sure that I am up to date on my vaccines. I have gotten the flu shot every year for the past 15 or so years because I do not want to be the reason someone else gets sick, I wish everyone could think like that.

There have been huge breakthroughs in cancer research that point to the HPV virus as the culprit no matter the gender. Several throat and tonsilar cancers in males (AMAB) have been responding to some interesting trial treatments with HPV mRNA vaccines in conjunction with the standard treatment and with great results. The fact you got the vaccine early in life (assuming you are under 45?) Is providing you some great prevention to things you might not of even considered.
Should it have been free? Yes. Should you still enjoy some peace of mind for protection against a long list of nasty things for the price of about $100? Also yes.
What does having an “M” on your healthcare mean??
- M, F, and X are the general standard for legal gender identification in the world right now, standing for male, female, and non-binary respectively.
  That this person is AMAB means they were assigned male at birth, and so they were given male as their legal gender until choosing to update their documents.

Ever since 2018 I have been getting a flu shot every year, too. Why? In 2018 I had the worst flu ever. It was BAD. Arguably worse than even the one time I got covid in 2022 (despite being twice vaccinated for that at the time). The horror of that flu made me never want to get the flu again.

I did... but it was never that bad.

despite
Vaccines don't keep you from getting sick with either the flu or COVID, they reduce the symptoms, reduce the risk of re-transmission and significantly reduce the risk of long term effects of these illnesses. Your system still has to fight the intruder.
- That's why it was manageable and not debilitating.
I never used to get the flu shot, either. My older brother contracted Influenza A, and it was BAD. I get my flu shot now, every year.