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Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because Few Nurses Speak Low German
- miladyincontrol 8mo agoHuh? Few mennonites under 60 even speak low german much less with any level of fluency or preference. Theres definitely vaccine hesitancy in the community but this feels like grasping at straws and rather quite the disconnect to why its a cultural issue in the first place.
- tim-tday 8mo agoThere’s no such thing as low German. There are instead hundreds of German dialects. “High German” is just an attempt at unification through an agreed upon standard dialect. For example: The German an Austrian speaks with his grandmother may be incomprehensible to his friend from Switzerland. But they both understand the form used on the news. Saying someone doesn’t speak “low German” is nonsensical. Nonsensical statements make the whole argument suspect.