the pandemic, which saw the greatest triumph of vaccine science in history, has apparently caused a major increase in antivax sentiment https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/childhood-vaccination-rates-continue-to-decline-as-trump-heads-for-a-second-term/
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For example, more than a few people seemed to think you just don't get infected, period, when vaccinated, and uh no ... that's not how biochemistry works.
https://www.rimaregas.com/2017/09/triangulation-when-neoliberalism-is-at-its-most-dangerous-to-voters-updated-dem-politics-on-blog42/
but there have been successful amendments to 230 and there should be more amendments to curb the negative effects of these algorithms where harm is demonstrable and the platform had reason to know about the harm
Every usable social network has to protect against spam,
and has to protect against various kinds of griefers attacking,
and besides needing constant update, well-funded attackers will abuse any algorithm they can.
Like 1) only show me content of people I follow; or: 2) only show content from people in my county etc; or: 3) only show content about a particular subject’? Etc etc.
So, no targeted ads or content if platform wants 230 protections.
If a platform utilizes algorithms to curate and recommend content that can be viewed as the platform’s own expressive activity, or first-party speech - rather than merely hosted user-generated content (3rd party).
https://www.thenerdreich.com/thoughts-on-president-elon-musks-pending-tech-takeover-of-us-government/
Studies show driving with a covid infection is like driving at the legal alcohol limit
You know Washington, DC, the city east of South Carolina?
If you have to make nonsensical concessions for your graph, make a different graph.
At 90%, measles can probably spread, and at 75% it'd be endemic again.
In addition to the re-emergence of polio
We came really close with polio, but efforts have kind of fallen apart in Africa, in part because white men's medicine hasn't had a great history with African people.
Nonsurvival of the unfittest. And the rest of us are still here afterward.
(Thinking about line cooks being one of the hardest hit groups. Or BIPOC, disabled, and poor people having worst outcomes)
we are in a post truth society
https://bsky.app/profile/ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social/post/3lb5i3pejmk2x
I was up to date on my MMR, but I got a rare strain of mumps in high school and let me tell you, fuck that.
Just don't look at China's strategies to succesfully contain the spread of COVID before and after the avayability of vaccines.
Best thing in their opinion seems to crowd CTIs with paying custommers.
And that "eventually" happens when vaccines were avayable and total death per milion still were below 10.
Especially in 2020 when some ppl started really going down these rabbit holes on FB, e.g. DoTerra crowd went full tilt anti-vax & conspiracies
RFK's website was being sent around in parent emails as "the facts" to my kid's class, it was alarming
"Hygiene theory" as it pertains to RELATIVELY HARMLESS environmental bacteria WILL help your immune system.
Viruses do not.
"In WA, the state reported a total of 1,193 cases so far in 2024, compared to 51 cases the same time last year.
Idaho has reported over 700 cases this year, compared to 34 in 2023."
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/16/whooping-cough-surge-pacific-northwest/
*In Idaho, nine people have been hospitalized for pertussis including four infants, one child aged between the ages of one and four years old, two teenagers and two adults
Get vaccinated!