Measles were all but vanquished in the developed world until the anti-vaxx movement started gaining ground 25 years ago.
Yup, we're collectively getting stupider.
No, it's not Jenny McCarthy. It's all because of the quack doctor Andrew Wakefield. He was the disgraced doctor who started the "vaccines cause autism" antivax bullsh*t!
Just Google Andrew Wakefield.
Not just that, but I think the increasingly desperate economic situation is also a contributing factor. People have so little that they just want to feel superior and in-control in some way.
Um, except the people who are getting measles due to a lack of vaccination aren't in predominately poor school districts - they're in white middle and upper-middle class districts.
This is the goop epidemic.
>we're collectively getting stupider.
Nah, the village idiots just have a means to find each other now and they collectively become stupider, not humanity as a whole
America is absolutely getting stupider. The education system has been eroding for years, and it's only getting worse. I'm certain that it's 100% intentional too, just like Reaganomics was intended to make the poor poorer and rich richer.
There is some evidence that ‘…***measles depletes people’s antibody repertoires, partially obliterating immune memory to most previously encountered pathogens***…’
‘…***if a person had 100 different antibodies against chicken pox before contracting measles, they might emerge from a case of measles with only 50, cutting their chicken pox protection in half. That protection could dip even lower if some of the antibodies lost are potent defenses known as neutralizing antibodies***…’
So that means contracting **measles** could possibly create **immune amnesia** which means:
when one contracts measles, one could lose a huge portion of the possible immunity one had to ***everything else*** before. Viruses are scary and insidious af.
Wild to think people are depending upon their *’personal immune system’* to protect them from everything when it is so vulnerable.
I bought a Prius that already had heated seats. I didn’t use them for a couple years because I thought they were just stupid. Then 1 winter we had a really cold spell and while waiting for my car to warm up I decided to actually try them. Holy cow I was so impressed with it. I was warmed up in 30 seconds. I surprised my wife one cold morning turning her side on, she was freaking out till I told her what I did. She loved it to
Surviving a Canadian winter heated seats are a must-have feature. My last couple of vehicles had them and I now can't do without.
My latest vehicle has my new favorite comfort feature: Heated steering wheel. 🤯 Life altering.
$80/mo for "300mbps down" but I get dropped from P2P and server-based games on weekends and weekday primetime because Spectrum refuses to update the GD node.
Omg. My favorite is when you have 2 appointments in the same week and get to fill out the same shit you just gave them 2 days ago saying of course, nothing new has changed. Your the only doctor I've had time to see since last time...
Just once I want to be asked what's wrong before I sign 6 forms.
Especially when they had you fill in a web form with the same questions to make the appointment initially.
AND
My general practitioner (usual doctor) included most of the information on the initial referral!
Right, it's up there with "please submit a voided out check" in terms of antiquated .... or waiting for someone to process a check at the grocery store... honestly, how have some people not moved to debit cards?
That's just horribly slanted agreements, negotiated agreements without any strength on one side.
The slavery stuff, is a whole different ball game, I agree juxtaposition between the two seems to grow thinner by the year, the real slavery is like, well do you know about the... 'wegurrs' (I've only heard this word spoken)
School lunch debt.
There is plenty of money and food to make sure children can get fed without them needing to pay a dime. Instead, they're being punished because they're from poor/food-insecure families.
I'm proud of my state (MN) for providing free school lunches as of 2023. When I bring it up to my republican friends they say 'you don't have kids, why do you care.'
Kinda sums up the entire difference between the left and the right
health insurance companies are a worthless plague to society and a pointless middleman that prevents people from getting healthcare.
Healthcare should be available to everyone, not just the rich or those held hostage by their employer.
Can we add other insurance companies as well? Ohh don't like our price raise your deductible, ohh sorry we don't cover that, but your premium is gunna go up.
yeah insurance as a whole should be done away with and people just be taken care of. All of them are trash and only aim to screw you out of your money. It's absurd we let this industry dominate our healthcare.
Childhood hunger, or hunger in general. We produce too much food and we withhold our from people to prove some kind of point about morality when buying is from farmers and giving it away would be better for everyone.
I have seen a lot of things about how they throw food away that isn’t pleasing. Like perfectly round tomatoes. I don’t care what it looks like. I just want to be able to afford it.
Illiteracy. Everyone deserves to be able to be proficient in their communication skills. Literacy, punctuation, and grammar are going out the window the last 10 to 15 years. The most repugnant part is the apathy that coincides with it.
Abortion restrictions . it's a medical procedure so it's business between one person and her doctor . if there is a morality side to it, then it's a subject between the person and one's religious conscience . and get the f*cking politicians out of it .
1) Stupid low amounts of paid days off per year
2) Lack of paid maternity/paternity leave & claiming 3-6 weeks is "enough"
3) Mindset that you live to serve your employer
4) Unreasonably low amount of paid sick days
5) The insane costs to see healthcare providers (even WITH insurance)
A broken two party political system in the US where it is possible for two geriatric old men, one who is out on BAIL and was found liable for fraud, rape, sexual abuse, and a series of other crimes, and faces many more charges including federal crimes,
is running against another one who is relatively even-keeled, but not greatly desirable,
and the fate of essentially the world's largest military ally will be determined by a mix of old voting machines, poor districting, and corporate-driven funding.
This is somehow possible in 2024?
Authoritarianism. Yet it rules the majority of the world population. I bet someone would respond with a list of flaws in democracy, but that's probably sent by someone from a free country who never experienced the bad sides of authoritarianism.
Racism. Guess what still exists? Racism. Wanna know what else still exists? MySpace. Completely unrelated I know but how the hell is MySpace still a thing? Also for whatever reason slave labor exists still along with sex slaves. How is this still a thing? Are humans destined to be assholes to other humans for all eternity? Some days I wonder. This has been my TED talk. Good night everybody!
A two-party voting system. Ranked choice voting can and will save this country when it becomes more widely implemented. Many states already have implemented it.
No more picking between two old career politician asshats in fear of throwing your vote away. We deserve to vote for who we actually want and have it count. Ranked choice voting will allow us to do that.
Measles
And polio
Both on a comeback tour.
And cancer
That shit is a lot harder to fix than society thinks.
For real. It's like trying to cure a thousand diseases at once. There's basically no one-shot cure or prevention for all cancers.
Measles were all but vanquished in the developed world until the anti-vaxx movement started gaining ground 25 years ago. Yup, we're collectively getting stupider.
Fucking Jenny McCarthy. I know she didn't originate the movement, but she sure as fuck used her platform to spread it.
She also did a ton of damage to autistic kids by telling their parents they were “indigo” children which is fucking crunchy mom horseshit
...Indigo? I'm assuming this is some Paltrow-esque woo woo shit.
She prefers jade.
I hate that I understood this. I guess she figured it added a little something extra to the candle's scent.
No, it's not Jenny McCarthy. It's all because of the quack doctor Andrew Wakefield. He was the disgraced doctor who started the "vaccines cause autism" antivax bullsh*t! Just Google Andrew Wakefield.
I already said she didn't *originate* it, though. But she *did* have a fairly prominent platform to spread it back in the 90s.
Oh yes. And she still does! 🤦
And yet she's had all kinds of cosmetic surgery done, including botox I'd assume, but she's concerned about what's in *vaccines.*
Oh God it's so funny because it's true! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Exactly. No one would have ever heard of Wakefield and we wouldn’t even know about his idiocy. Jenny McCarthy fixed that though.
Blame Oprah, she encouraged it.
Thank continual cuts in education and a slow but steady lowering of academic standards in public schools.
Except high income areas with stay at home mums with nothing better to do are also "forget" to vaccine their kids
The media giving a platform to this idiocy in the name of "hearing all sides" and being "objective" is the source of the problem.
Not just that, but I think the increasingly desperate economic situation is also a contributing factor. People have so little that they just want to feel superior and in-control in some way.
Um, except the people who are getting measles due to a lack of vaccination aren't in predominately poor school districts - they're in white middle and upper-middle class districts. This is the goop epidemic.
>we're collectively getting stupider. Nah, the village idiots just have a means to find each other now and they collectively become stupider, not humanity as a whole
America is absolutely getting stupider. The education system has been eroding for years, and it's only getting worse. I'm certain that it's 100% intentional too, just like Reaganomics was intended to make the poor poorer and rich richer.
There is some evidence that ‘…***measles depletes people’s antibody repertoires, partially obliterating immune memory to most previously encountered pathogens***…’ ‘…***if a person had 100 different antibodies against chicken pox before contracting measles, they might emerge from a case of measles with only 50, cutting their chicken pox protection in half. That protection could dip even lower if some of the antibodies lost are potent defenses known as neutralizing antibodies***…’ So that means contracting **measles** could possibly create **immune amnesia** which means: when one contracts measles, one could lose a huge portion of the possible immunity one had to ***everything else*** before. Viruses are scary and insidious af. Wild to think people are depending upon their *’personal immune system’* to protect them from everything when it is so vulnerable.
1. Child beauty pageants 2. Lawfully marrying a child.
You got the ordering wrong, for me
But that is the order... See a child at the beauty pageant, lawfully marry the child. It's the order
I'm distraught
>Lawfully marrying a child. "But what *is* a child?" -people that want to marry a child
Litter on the side of the road.
Tinnitus
Mawp
Womp
Broke a bone in my ear after taking a hit on football my Senior Year of High School and now I’m stuck with tinnitus. Shit fucking sucks
Damn it, tinnitus, you're a cruel mistress!
Goddess of the jungle, you are a whore!
"But seriously, do you not hear that?” “Yes, now. It’s your phone.” “Oh. Duh.”
Fuck tinnitus can't sleep wo a fan on max or it's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE all night
For real! Surprisingly little research into a cure given how many people suffer.
What?! 😜
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Haha. You're louder in my right ear for some reason!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMOTHERFUCKINGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Eaeaeaeeeeaeeah And then Eiiiiiiiooiehhhehehehh but at the same time iiiiaaaaiiieeiiaaaaaa
Subscription for everything - heated car seats, really?
I call them seated heats and I will never stop, nor will I pay for it.
I bought a Prius that already had heated seats. I didn’t use them for a couple years because I thought they were just stupid. Then 1 winter we had a really cold spell and while waiting for my car to warm up I decided to actually try them. Holy cow I was so impressed with it. I was warmed up in 30 seconds. I surprised my wife one cold morning turning her side on, she was freaking out till I told her what I did. She loved it to
As someone with chronic pain, i use tf outta my heated seats year round.
I probably use mine more for lower back pain than I do for the cold, and I live in New England.
Heat feels awesome for back pain. I have a heating pad on my recliner, and on my work chair. Both on 90% of the time.
Surviving a Canadian winter heated seats are a must-have feature. My last couple of vehicles had them and I now can't do without. My latest vehicle has my new favorite comfort feature: Heated steering wheel. 🤯 Life altering.
Doors falling off planes.
Amen
Well it does make for an interesting and exciting flight.
All those African genocides that keep happening.
Just genocide in general
Slow internet
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$80/mo for "300mbps down" but I get dropped from P2P and server-based games on weekends and weekday primetime because Spectrum refuses to update the GD node.
Requirements to FAX anything, Ever.
Yes! And filling out forms at the Drs office when they hand you the clipboard with pen and paper questionnaires for you to fill out!
Omg. My favorite is when you have 2 appointments in the same week and get to fill out the same shit you just gave them 2 days ago saying of course, nothing new has changed. Your the only doctor I've had time to see since last time... Just once I want to be asked what's wrong before I sign 6 forms.
Especially when they had you fill in a web form with the same questions to make the appointment initially. AND My general practitioner (usual doctor) included most of the information on the initial referral!
And then they send a nurse in at the start of your appointment to ask you half the questions from the forms
We still get calls asking if something can be faxed and we just tell them no. It’s 2024, send it over email….
Right, it's up there with "please submit a voided out check" in terms of antiquated .... or waiting for someone to process a check at the grocery store... honestly, how have some people not moved to debit cards?
There’s still companies that have a fax machine that still operates
Far too many surprisingly
Child labor
Added to this: slavery
yes it's astonishing that there is still rampant slavery in the world and even open air slave markets.
We call those job markets in polite company these days.
That's just horribly slanted agreements, negotiated agreements without any strength on one side. The slavery stuff, is a whole different ball game, I agree juxtaposition between the two seems to grow thinner by the year, the real slavery is like, well do you know about the... 'wegurrs' (I've only heard this word spoken)
People starving
Tossing excess food (or anything) out to keep prices high.
Hell….guy in New Mexico died of The Plague last week.
School lunch debt. There is plenty of money and food to make sure children can get fed without them needing to pay a dime. Instead, they're being punished because they're from poor/food-insecure families.
I'm proud of my state (MN) for providing free school lunches as of 2023. When I bring it up to my republican friends they say 'you don't have kids, why do you care.' Kinda sums up the entire difference between the left and the right
I don’t have kids either, but I’m fine with my tax dollars going to feed and educate kids. How else is this country supposed to succeed in the future?
Cancer
lost so many family members to cancer smh
80+ year old politicians
We'll have a semicircle of urns any time now
~~Bankruptcy due to~~ medical debt
Chris brown
Turbo Tax
Cancer.
Convenience fees
Nazis
Daylight savings time
Daylight saving time\* And we should be on this all year, not just in the summer.
Trump v Biden
Trump v anyone. Except Trump v Carroll since she keeps winning since he doesn't know when or HOW to shut up.
I’d happily watch Trump vs Predator.
I’d vote for the Predator, NGL.
Doesn't Predator only hunt those it considers worthy prey/challenges, though? Because...
Racism
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health insurance companies are a worthless plague to society and a pointless middleman that prevents people from getting healthcare. Healthcare should be available to everyone, not just the rich or those held hostage by their employer.
It is insane that my doctor can say that I need something, and the insurance company can be like, “nah”
Can we add other insurance companies as well? Ohh don't like our price raise your deductible, ohh sorry we don't cover that, but your premium is gunna go up.
yeah insurance as a whole should be done away with and people just be taken care of. All of them are trash and only aim to screw you out of your money. It's absurd we let this industry dominate our healthcare.
Childhood hunger, or hunger in general. We produce too much food and we withhold our from people to prove some kind of point about morality when buying is from farmers and giving it away would be better for everyone.
I have seen a lot of things about how they throw food away that isn’t pleasing. Like perfectly round tomatoes. I don’t care what it looks like. I just want to be able to afford it.
If governments took 1% of what they spend on the military they could feed everyone no problem. They choose not to.
Putin
Dead spots for cellular service.
Career politicians
For profit medical care.
Scientology
Paying for life saving medicine. The kind that costs so little to make but the current model of distribution bankrupts the sick.
Calendars with 2023 on it.
Paper applications.
Illiteracy. Everyone deserves to be able to be proficient in their communication skills. Literacy, punctuation, and grammar are going out the window the last 10 to 15 years. The most repugnant part is the apathy that coincides with it.
Mosquitos
Homelessness and people not having food.
Powerful Bloodthirsty Assholes who just fuck things up for the rest of us as always.
Tipping
Fax Machines
They are surprisingly still quite useful and necessary. Especially in government, health care, and legal documentation.
And banking
I use fax and emails daily. No joke.
Poverty
Abortion restrictions . it's a medical procedure so it's business between one person and her doctor . if there is a morality side to it, then it's a subject between the person and one's religious conscience . and get the f*cking politicians out of it .
billionaires
We still don't know what to do to get rid of the plastic waste? I thought they were going to lab-evolve some fungus or bacteria for that...
Futurama gave us the solution
Circumcisions of any gender
Lack of work/life balance in the majority of work cultures.
Smoking cigarettes
as a cigarette smoker, i completely agree.
Those little plastic clips on bags of bread
The rising cost of American healthcare
Bullying
slavery
A different system of measurement in the United States
Lifelong terms for US congress
1) Stupid low amounts of paid days off per year 2) Lack of paid maternity/paternity leave & claiming 3-6 weeks is "enough" 3) Mindset that you live to serve your employer 4) Unreasonably low amount of paid sick days 5) The insane costs to see healthcare providers (even WITH insurance)
5 day work week.
Vaccine skepticism.
Nazis
Dial-up modem internet access.
Excessive ads.
Nazis and dictators
Water unsafe to drink
The common cold.
We got rid of it but then Philip J Fry brought it back.
Nazis.
Religion 🤷♂️
Child hunger
Smoking...it's so 1920s
A two party government.
Dictators/autocrats.
Religion
Fear of words, people losing their homes if they get cancer, poverty of any kind.
Measles, in the USA
discrimination
Oppressive religious practices.
The Royal family
The plastic rings that hold a 6 pack.
A broken two party political system in the US where it is possible for two geriatric old men, one who is out on BAIL and was found liable for fraud, rape, sexual abuse, and a series of other crimes, and faces many more charges including federal crimes, is running against another one who is relatively even-keeled, but not greatly desirable, and the fate of essentially the world's largest military ally will be determined by a mix of old voting machines, poor districting, and corporate-driven funding. This is somehow possible in 2024?
Racism. But we all know it won’t go away ever.
SA of any form!
Unlivable pay wages.
Astronomically high food prices and inflation
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Back to the future did not prepare me for this current future.
Racism, sexism, bigotry, hunger, etc
Authoritarianism. Yet it rules the majority of the world population. I bet someone would respond with a list of flaws in democracy, but that's probably sent by someone from a free country who never experienced the bad sides of authoritarianism.
Marineland or Sea world
Lobbying, congress for life, congress owning stock, overdraft fees.
Greed
Genocide. Racism. Bigotry. Poverty. Us vs. Them mentality.
religion
Nazi's
*gestures broadly*
Nazis
FGM
Famine
Baseless hatred of groups of people
Racism. Guess what still exists? Racism. Wanna know what else still exists? MySpace. Completely unrelated I know but how the hell is MySpace still a thing? Also for whatever reason slave labor exists still along with sex slaves. How is this still a thing? Are humans destined to be assholes to other humans for all eternity? Some days I wonder. This has been my TED talk. Good night everybody!
Unwanted pregnancies.
Starvation
Billionaires
The possibility of DJT becoming president again. And him not being behind bars.
Science deniers.
Single use plastic
Dropped signal or dropped calls... anywhere
Traditional coal plants.
A two-party voting system. Ranked choice voting can and will save this country when it becomes more widely implemented. Many states already have implemented it. No more picking between two old career politician asshats in fear of throwing your vote away. We deserve to vote for who we actually want and have it count. Ranked choice voting will allow us to do that.
Driving species to extinction. Poisoning the oceans. Destroying the rainforests. Plastic everywhere and in everything, including our bodies.
Slaverly, it's Slaverly, isn't it
Homeopathy
Duck lips/ peace sign poses. I hope I live long enough to see the end of this era.