blanketswithsmallpox @ blanketswithsmallpox @kbin.social

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Ahem.

Fwiw the last big smallpox outbreak was in 1962.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079469/

Sauce. It's a bit old at 2020 though so there are probably a few more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266186/

Has bootlicker just lost all meaning now lol?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/12/2157746/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1

For those wanting more about Border Patrol killings:

Similarly, the actions of CBP officers also affect the number of migrant deaths. The CBP Office of Professional Responsibility reported that 151 CBP-related deaths occurred in FY 2021. This figure includes migrant deaths that occur in CBP custody as a result of use of force by a CBP officer and vehicle collisions that occur during active pursuit by the CBP, among other causes.

In June of 2022, the CBP reported a use of force incident that resulted in the death of one individual. Migrant deaths that resulted after high-speed chases by the CBP in 2022 have been documented in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

These incidents are currently being investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.

However, the comprehensiveness of CBP data has been scrutinized by the GAO, which stated in April of 2022 that “Border Patrol has not collected and recorded, or reported to Congress, complete data on migrant deaths, or disclosed associated data limitations.”

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-die-crossing-the-us-mexico-border/

Supreme Court Rules Border Patrol Agents Who Shoot Foreign Nationals Can't Be Sued

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/809401334/supreme-court-rules-border-patrol-agents-who-shoot-foreign-nationals-cant-be-sue

Please stop reducing everything to hurr durr Florida. It’s not clever, it’s just played out.

Florida Man

NO. LIBERALISM/PROGRESSIVISM AND FASCISM ARE NOT THE SAME.

I can't believe centrist fence sitting republicans (any historical fascist) keep trying to repeat that garbage for literal centuries.

The horseshoe political spectrum theory is absolute bullshit and has no bearing in truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoetheory

Progressives are trying to give people rights and take care of their fellow & future man.

Conservatives destroy knowledge, strip rights, and don't care one shit about hypocrisy in the veiled guise of nationalist religiosity.

You can talk your way around how two people fighting for their beliefs ARE UGH, THE SAME PEOPLE. But the moment you apply any critical thinking to it whatsoever, it falls apart.

The journey is often just as important as the end. Both sides wishing they could Thanos snap all opposition isn't some weird gotcha. It's the human condition of not wanting to go through the bullshit to get there lol.

Graceful losses and being humble when wrong is a lost concept on them, and a lot of people besides.

An entire party of ❄️s when called out, but all they do is weaponize the hypocrisy lol. It's easier to just point it out quickly then move on. Just to prime any readers who might have a margin of sanity.

! What's wrong with Solidus Snake?

Don't get me wrong. I think every single one of our first responders are understaffed and mostly underpaid. Cops, paramedics, firefighters, social workers, all of em. This is absolutely one of those cases though that short of there being metal detectors and/or people wanding spectators on entry, jack shit you could do. The public at large hates the fact that some things just straight up aren't preventable. Even more so with gun culture in the US.

People hate feeling like they live in a prison. The solution isn't more detectors and police. The solution is more chances for the poorest among us to find gainful employment. Social welfare programs that let those who can't work great jobs or fell on shitty times lift themselves back up and feel like they're doing something. It's spending money on Crisis Intervention workers so they can go to those mental health calls instead of sending someone who just had to pull dead bodies out of a car wreck.

I work pretty closely with all of them in my field. People complain about cops not having community outreach but all you hear over the scanner is them going from one call to another, non-stop. If you're in a suburb or larger, there's ZERO people on traffic duty too. It's a thankless job most of the time, one that traumatizes you almost weekly, and now people have turned on them HARD compared to when I grew up.

Any time we try to work on the above, Republicans shoot it down even if they ended up being the ones who proposed it lol.

Trump would be a traitor AND the oldest elected president ever.

Biden was the oldest president ever elected. Trump is 3 years younger than Biden. If Trump theoretically wins, he'd be the oldest elected president ever beating Biden by a year.

Thank God he will be in prison. I just hope a judge finally revokes his bond after making jokes about fleeing to Russia to get pegged by Putin.

Thanks.

The relevant medical science is obscured behind a veil of esoterica and complexity

Just because you cannot understand something does not make it false lmfao.

Complex things are complex. Some of them cannot be dumbed down. It's the entire, literal point, to civilization. Specialization.

And of all the things you want to complain about not knowing, is medications? So many of the metabolic pathways are heavily described and detailed. Very little of it requires intricate knowledge of biomechanica or biochemistry.

The rest of it is LITERALLY missing link versions of what people classically know about evolution. We know

A G

That doesn't mean magic happens between B, C, D, E, and F. It means biology is fucking stupid because evolution at it's core is based on entropy lol. It takes forever to learn why and what stupid mechanics do what.

In Oklahoma too. You know there were tens to hundred of other people in those stands that were strapped lol.

If the options are between being me with some help from hundreds of thousands of scientists with the backing of society, or being froghorse. I'll choose the former.

It's insane takes like this that make the least capable of us doubt getting help.

Do you eat food? Do you drive over bridges? Do you go to the hospital to get your bones set? Use electricity to heat or cool your home? Fortified food so you don't die from goiter or scurvy?

Congrats, you're relying on completely unnatural things to help you get through life easier. There is ZERO difference between the former and medications. Entire industries are built around them.

Looked it up, and sorta. If it goes to a specific 'PAC', "Save America PAC' he can absolutely use it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-pac-pays-his-legal-bills-save-america/

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-donations-legal-bills.html

How is anything that you said relevant to police magically detaining every person on both sides of a football game to find someone with a pistol? What, did you want them to just grab all the black kids instead lol?

The cops job during a shooting is to kill an active shooter and get help for people shot. There's zero chance they find someone who popped off some shots like that then sucked into a crowd. This isn't a very hard scenario to imagine. Tons of shootings like this go completely unsolved due to nobody speaking up out of no snitching rules and fear of retaliation.

You trolls realize you're talking to someone that's probably far more left leaning than you right? The difference being I don't live online fomenting hatred and division carte blanche.

FTL: Best of the Mooninites from the Adult Swim Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udqZsvrux0

Damizel

Wonder how quickly the whole population has long term health problems due to that.

I'd prefer avoiding to contribute to the worst long term health problem. Death.

Get your vaccines people.

There’s many reasons for this, but one is pretty simple: people lie.

You'd be surprised about how accurate scientific surveys are. The worst surveys are only 10% points off from real world data lol.

Unless you're gaming the survey like magazines do, real world studies aren't off by much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2016/05/02/assessing-the-accuracy-of-online-nonprobability-surveys/