This is why we rely on immune thresholds — yet again it’s community care. We all get vaccinated not just to protect ourselves but to protect the vulnerable around us.

But of course COVID taught us that community health is not a priority in this country.

It is important to remember when talking about this to be careful of “they deserve it” talk. There are chronically ill and disabled people who cannot safely be vaccinated. And there are infants who must be a certain age. And these infected children have no control over their parent’s choices.

So happens now is this rise measles will also create a rise in all vaccine-preventable illnesses (and other illnesses) b/c everyone who recovers will essentially be reduced to immune system infancy.

It will create a cascade of illnesses, especially in people who will refuse new vaccinations.

If you wanna learn more about immune amnesia this is a good primer from the American Society for Microbiology.

Measles binds to your immune system’s memory cells and infects them, effectively erasing their database. It then produces all new memory cells - that contain info ONLY for measles.

like his complaint is literally that there are people who believe in things, believe those things are right, and believe in those things regardless of whether they are popular.

He’s a fucking gambling addict who got famous for treating politics like sports betting. He’s always trying to recreate that high.

Meanwhile some states are welcoming guns into the classroom

How are we supposed to teach? How can they learn from us? When we are all literally terrified

Huge love to my trans family <3

I’m disgusted that they keep using you as their distraction tactic, putting you all in danger, and I can’t imagine all of the other ways it must impact you.

The only way to save ourselves is to save each other 💜

Corny, but I believe it with my whole laurenussy =)

There are regulations that could actually hold the tech industry accountable for its inflammatory algorithms and predatory tactics, like comprehensive data privacy protections, but passing laws like KOSA, the SCREEN Act, repealing Secrion 230 etc will make passing that legislation that impossible

Every top expert in the field has reiterated over and over again that these social media bans and things like KOSA and the SCREEN Act only harm children and enact mass censorship and surveillance zeteo.com/p/social-med...

Amusing how this result is how the web USED to work early 2000s! No nonsense webpages.

But the web has decayed badly with free sites monetizing ads and optimizing for SEO.

I have no illusions in another 5-10-15 years this approach (search via an LLM the web) could well decay