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Johanna, CanCon variety
Johanna, CanCon variety
@johannab@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp last week

RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/115877954398691111

Excellent Public Service Announcement.

#GenX, our vintage is all part of this cohort and it's worth checking. Most of us should be re-vaccinated against measles, UNLESS a test shows a robust titre (you're still "immune").

We have all of these risks:
-- older first-generation vaccine less enduring
-- SOME bodies just lose immunity over time
-- we now know that measles and more recently Covid both have the effect of dampening immunity you previously HAD developed
-- measles is back.

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Bat Shark Repellant
Bat Shark Repellant
@batshark@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@johannab

I called 811 about that, and they said I was still immune, but I could still get a blood test if I wasn't sure, but they didn't tell me how to get the blood test done.

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Johanna, CanCon variety
Johanna, CanCon variety
@johannab@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@batshark

I'm not sure they can know based on a phone call if you are/aren't immune, as we are learning more all the time about how immunity fades or is being damaged by our NEW social virome that's circulating.

I was re-vaxed TWICE, once after a miscarriage/before my surviving pregnancy "out of caution because of your age", and 10 years later, despite my GP being dismissive, a blood test was ordered and the GP had to say "welp holy shit I was wrong, you have no apparent immunity".

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Bat Shark Repellant
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@batshark@mstdn.plus replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@johannab

They said it was because of what year I was born. The Alberta health care system is a mess right now.

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Johanna, CanCon variety
Johanna, CanCon variety
@johannab@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@batshark my sympathies.

Alberta's main motivation seems to be "well, lets make Ontario look not quite so bad" these days. 😵‍💫

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GinevraCat
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@GinevraCat@toot.community replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@johannab My kid will be fine though. I lost his previous clinic record when we emigrated, so the poor thing had to have all his childhood vaccines again in his teens!!!

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