David Mitchell :CApride:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq1688az" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>edmonton-cbcnews</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbcnews</span></a></span> </p><p>“We continue to recommend that anyone attending large gatherings ensure their immunizations are up to date, practice good hand hygiene, and stay home if feeling unwell. These are the same precautions we have consistently encouraged to help reduce the spread of measles,” says the province.</p><p>“Practice good hand hygiene”? Really? How about wear a mask?! Hand hygiene theatre won’t protect you from airborne measles if you’re breathing infected air.</p><p>And of course get vaccinated or get a booster… we *know* for a fact that there is *only* one way to achieve herd immunity for measles and that is with vaccination rates at 95% or higher.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MaskUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaskUp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ABPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ABPoli</span></a></p>