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Maelen Moonsinger's avatar

Great Moments in History: July 26th

26 July, 1184.

While Henry VI, the King of Germany, was holding an informal assembly at the Petersburg Citadel in Erfurt, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse. Most of the nobles fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.

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My Erdos Number Is Five's avatar

Gee, North Texas is dumb. We already knew that.

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Nicole Koretsky's avatar

Why on earth should anyone, even a PM or president, call anti-vaxxers anything but that? Why should they be forced to kowtow to such pathological idiocy in the name of political correctness? I'm sorry, but anyone who denies basic empirical fact should be treated accordingly: vaccine hesitancy is a phrase that presupposes a scientific reasoning that doesn't exist in the population of conspiratorial, anti-science wing nuts. I don't think we go far enough about them. They are walking bioterrorists, risking all of our lives, and I don't know how I'd treat them if I were an ER doctor, so I'm glad I'm not. They (ER docs) are better people than I am.

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Modo's avatar

It feels like most people are better people than you.

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Modo's avatar

It feels like most people are better people than you.

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Modo's avatar

It feels like most people are better people than you.

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Modo's avatar

It feels like most people are better people than you.

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Maelen Moonsinger's avatar

Please check the programming on that bot.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

I don't want to hear another damn word about "Big Pharma" from people who are going to let Big Supplement kill us all. Anti-vax is the real "get people sick so we can sell them the cure" this crowd has always accused "Western medicine" of being...

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Nicole Koretsky's avatar

R'amen

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RE Garrett's avatar

North American Medical Schools and Primary-Care Residency Programs should seriously consider developing new curricular modules to teach young physicians how to diagnose and treat illnesses such as tetanus, measles, and polio.

I practiced medicine in the United States for over thirty years, and never had to diagnose or treat a patient with measles or tetanus; I did see one patient with post-polio syndrome, but no one with the active disease. I doubt that many of my age-group colleagues saw any of these diseases, unless the worked part-time or longer in the Global South.

But now, with RFK jr and his band of yahoos in charge of the US Public Health System, we can expect to see more and more cases of vaccine-preventable diseases in many practices and clinics. Making an early and correct diagnosis of any disease is essential to maximize the chances of a good outcome for patients. We now have several generations of young physicians who are up in the latest in molecular medicine, but have never had to diagnose a child with measles from any of these diseases many other diseases that present with a rash. Medical education must keep up with the times, even if those times are a regression to the Dark Ages

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Andrew. At age six, before the MMR vaccine, I nearly died of measles, came close to going blind, and my teeth were ruined by the very high fever. The only reason I survived is that my mother was a nursing aide during WWII (when they did all the nursing because the nurses were deployed), and knew to put me in a bathtub full of cold water and ice to lower my core temperature. If you've seen Adrian Lyne's movie Jacob's Ladder, you've seen a slush bath. Reye's syndrome followed, because of all the baby aspirin I was fed. I would not wish measles on my worst enemies, and these bozos are embracing it, for fuck's fucking sake!

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Rachael's avatar

If they found the term 'anti-vaxxer' so insulting, perhaps they could have done something to prove that dastardly Trudeau wrong. Getting vaccinated leaps to mind.

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Mexfiles's avatar

How much longer until other countries (like Mexico) start demanding health certificates from US and Canadian tourists? Seems every time there's an outbreak of measles or other preventable disease, it's traced back to some unvaccinated tourist or "expat".

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

they are so desperate to blame everyone else for their idiocy - and the whole 'you made fun of me so i doubled down on the stupid so this is all your fault' argument aint quite the gotcha moment that they think it is

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Caepan's avatar

Thanks for the shoutout for Ken Finkelstein’s far superior 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮, and not another overwrought Sorkin show that’s always heavy on the speechifying and light on the gravitas.

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MK Piatkowski's avatar

Finkelstein's show should never be forgotten.

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BillEGoatSmile's avatar

*sighs*

But that Newsroom clip is one for the ages.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

its the only clip i've ever seen of that show - if its the high light i don't feel like i need to see any more (I do agree with the messaging tho)

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

For our American friends, the political divide in Canada is much the same as it is in the States.

Urban = educated = left wing leaning

Rural = lesser education = right wing leaning

Same as pretty much every state in the US. What varies by province up here is how much power the collection of rural ridings has. Alberta is like Texas or Georgia. Two islands of what would be blue in a vast sea of red.

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

Saskatchewan likewise. Provincially anyway, Regina and Saskatoon are literally socialist hellholes. (Waves in Reginian.) I think there is like 2 non-Conservatives federally.

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cynmac's avatar

Georgia has 4 Islands of Blue - Atlanta, Athens, Savannah and Albany. All told the state is Purple. 10M population, 5M Blue and 5M Red.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

That's by population. How is the seat distribution? THAT'S where the outsized impact of rural population happens - when 2 million left wing voters are packed into 1 seat, while there are 5 rural seats with 100,000 population each.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

You're lucky. We North Carolinians have only two- Asheville and Chapel Hill.

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derek lane's avatar

Durham

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Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

"As a result, it has entrenched a partisan divide in society, where vaccination status is viewed as a political virtue signal rather than a public health objective to be pursued collaboratively.”

Actually, I think we should encourage our modern fascist to rebel like this more often. Instead of getting a simple, cheap vaccine to prevent a terrible disease, refuse to do so to teach the government a lesson for trying to protect you.

Same thing. Next time some lib threatens to raise taxes, you burn all your money and your property to the ground. Let's see them tax the ashes!

And if another lib threatens to regulate guns in any way, well how can you regulate a gun after you have shot yourself in the head? Answer me that, Democrats??????

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Khavrinen's avatar

Seems to me like "vaccine-hesitant" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that accusation.

Not really the term I would use to describe people foaming at the mouth with rage and screaming obscenities.

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Goonemeritus's avatar

And yet you can't buy a medium rare hamburger in the entire country

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belfryo's avatar

I hate these people

YOU decided not to vaccinate your fucking kids and this is Trudeau's fault HOW?

THIS IS WHAT YOU FUCKINIG WANTED...you quite literally CHOSE the opposite of what Trudeau ask you to do BECAUSE specifically he asked you to do it.

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

but they weren't supposed to suffer, the people who got the vaccines were! its not fair that they be held responsible for their choices

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Goonemeritus's avatar

Stop trying to confuse us with your smartness

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