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   May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:50:32 JST May Likes Toronto

   Kid and baby just walked by. Baby had red spots all over their face. Kid was running around touching everything.

   Why there isn't a huge systematic vaccination push and massive public health education campaign right now is beyond me.

   #cdnpoli #measles #toronto

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:50:28 JST silverwizard

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     @mayintoronto @somcak we had a baby in Waterloo Ontario 6 years ago. For the next three years, we got weekly checkins with a prenatal nurse who would come to our home and answer questions. It was no strings attached, and we could opt out. But I feel like *had access*, I don't get it.
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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:50:30 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @somcak A lot of people blame the Mennonites, but the health fad moms are making this so much worse.

     We have a complete lack of systemic parental training and support. Something like Finland's baby boxes that are fully tied into post-natal care and benefits would be amazing. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415

     I want to emphasize that this is usually not the health mom's fault. When it's easier to find information on the internet on how to take care of a kid than what the government provides, that's a failure of the government to provide services.

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     somcak (somcak@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:50:31 JST somcak

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     @mayintoronto I read this without seeing who posted and was like "damn! I hate living in the US!" Then realized this came from Toronto. I'm sorry we exported the worst of our ideas to yinz.

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 02:20:14 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @silverwizard That's awesome! A lot of my friends are having kids and the super diligent ones are talking about having a hard time finding access to services like pediatricians, daycare...

     These are generally the ones who can spend hundreds of hours doing "research". Also the ones that are probably the most prone to falling into the health mom rabbit holes.

     @somcak

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 02:20:26 JST silverwizard

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     @mayintoronto @somcak oh yeah! It's terrible out there! Daycares are a machine. But yeah, I know we got resources through the health center and I hope that's surfacable in Toronto