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Totally want to go back in time to tell someone from the 1800s that we'd eradicated smallpox, measles, mumps, and polio and had typhus, diphtheria, & scarlet fever mostly under control, but they came back because people thought medicine was bad Just to see their look of absolute despair
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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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"What was that stranger goin' on about, Samuel?" "Just telling one lie after another. Said he was 'from the future' and they could cure all sorts of ills, but just didn't want to."
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Nikole
@picnik.bsky.social
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I'm not going to repost this but I do think it's funny 🥲
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@stvrulz.bsky.social
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And we COULD eliminate TB, but we just don't wannu
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Sleestak
@sleestak.bsky.social
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The Good Place youtu.be/RGIMcOvWBPo?...
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No Worries if Not
@nottodayknees.bsky.social
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Germ theory of disease? I don’t know her.
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Jarda
@jarda.bsky.social
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Polio isn't eradicated thanks to the hell countries Pakistan and Afghanistan. I wouldn't be surprised if there were hot pockets of other eradicable diseases too.
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Amateur Expert Opinions
@amateurexpertop.bsky.social
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past few years i often thought how many 'greats' who'd kiss Jonas Salk's feet managed to raise a ton of kids "just asking questions" about vaccine requirements for schools
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Passing Strange At Present
@chimaera.bsky.social
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Cemeteries are full of tiny headstones of dead children. Up until we started vax programs. My great-grandmother lost five children; grandmother lost none. It's compelling, to anyone with a brain.
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Eldritch CAT POSSUM
@eldritchcatpossum.bsky.social
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It would be heartbreaking.
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Mike R. v2.7
@rooster75.bsky.social
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"I've never had to show proof of vaccination before!" Yeah, I know. Say thank you for those who came before.
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Derrell Durrett
@derrelldurrett.bsky.social
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I'm not sure you wouldn't get a more despairing response from someone in the 1950s.
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Angry Staff Officer
@pptsapper.bsky.social
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A good 40% of us wouldn't exist without vaccines and penicillin but sure, Blanche, the government is trying to inject 5G into your rice krispies, go off
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Carolyn Griffiths
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Exactly. Makes me want to weep. Minds are being poisoned by lunatics
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@hapchem.bsky.social
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Would they be more despairing than people from the 1940s - "Yeah, we sent you to defeat the Nazis and prevent them from taking over the world and killing all the people they don't like, but 80 years later, we want to elect them to run the US."? Probably, because no one actually rooted for smallpox.
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Patrick Matthews
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There were still polio outbreaks in the US in my own parents' early childhoods. As a nurse my mom tended to patients in an iron lung. Hell, Mitch McConnell is a polio survivor!
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Mike Wilson
@mkwilson27.bsky.social
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Or go back to the post WWII period and tell people one of our parties is embracing fascism.
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@flamingogrrl.bsky.social
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That’s how I feel knowing my little sister was almost blinded by the measles before there was a vaccine 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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@ninjamonkky.bsky.social
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"See Mary Elizabeth, I told you a lettin' Cletus breed was to bring no good into this world. Now the future's full of halfwits and degenerated idjiots."
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Jimmy (Ø) Jim (Ø) James
@jimmyjimjames.bsky.social
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Also we are about this close to restoring monarchy.
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Jonathan
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I think if you did that they would let the 1918 flu just kill everybody
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Phil
@kujoatc75.bsky.social
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Think about how that would change history..it’d be an interesting alternative reality.
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Todd G
@toddaago.bsky.social
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We really live on the dumbest timeline.
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queer & pleasant danger
@laurenmpayne.bsky.social
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another option would be to tell them to weave stories of these ailments into their family lore. so even tho their progeny never witnessed it, they'll know of the horrors. maybe.
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Robin Hansen
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Who says they won't laugh it off and just find it funny? After all, they will know we escaped darker times.
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Torr Leonard 🧵
@torrleonard.bsky.social
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1800s?? You only need to go back to the 1980s….
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@heim2yankel.bsky.social
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Whooping cough(pertussis) too the stories of children coughing and screaming themselves to death?
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Isaac Rabinovitch
@isaac32767.bsky.social
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You don't have to go back that far. When I was a kid, all the diseases you mention were very much a thing to be afraid of, tho smallpox and polio had recently been eradicated in the US. My despair comes from how quickly these achievements were forgotten.
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Boston Tom Levenson
@tomlevenson.bsky.social
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Read my upcoming book. It's even more astounding than that (and, I argue, not surprising, alas).
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Myles to Go Before I Sleep Lobdell
@myleslobdell.bsky.social
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If you asked either of the major parties in 1940 which between them was in favor of (having once eliminated the scourge of infantile paralysis in the country) bringing back polio, they’d both spit at you.
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Chuck E. 🌊🦋
@emdashpython.bsky.social
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They think medicine and science are tricks by Satan.
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Patrick Brennan
@patrickmbrennan.bsky.social
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Just plain stupid is one thing. What makes me angry is "proud to be stupid."
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Ratoncita
@ratoncita.bsky.social
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My grandmother died at age 31 of TB in 1911 as well as her baby and her sister and baby. 🙁
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SPR John Davison
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Do it !
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