• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I have little doubt that MAGA republichudism was wholely responsible for the KKKonvoy rallies that cost the Canadian economy literally billions of dollars in a matter of days with their illegal blockades.

    I’d be remiss if I didn’t quote one of my favorite saved comments from that-content-aggregator-which-shall-not-be-named…

    Dude grow up…

    We did it with smallpox

    We did it with polio

    We did it with measles

    I’ve got an “almost” centenarian in the family. Dude grew up watching German zeppelins on the front line of invasion, his folks were both mostly bald from the Spanish flu. When he immigrated to Canada (on a boat) he had to get another round of vaccinations even though he had the full onslaught in the army while babysitting German POWs as they removed landmines from the beaches of his home country. Ask anyone 75+ how many of their childhood friends died from what are now preventable diseases.

    If you think the shit were taking now is untested, what the hell do you think they were handing out back in the 20s and 50s…

    Have you ever traveled abroad? Like not to London, or Tokyo or somewhere nice… But to somewhere shitty like Bangladesh, Nigeria, or Guinea? Do you have any idea how many people die in these countries every year from preventable diseases? You do know that even as a Canadian you legit cant board an aircraft in or out of these places without at the VERY least a yellow fever card right? Before vaccines it was pretty common for a boat to have to sit for a few weeks in quarantine at the destination before people were allowed to disembark… This is not new, this is not unique, this is not something to fuck around with.

    Sit down, shut up, and take your medicine you spoiled little shit.

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      1 year ago

      Fun fact!

      The etymology of “quarantine” literally refers to the practice of making a ship sit at berth for 40 days before anyone could disembark. “Quarantina” means 40 days in Italian…

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      1 year ago

      Since you brought up ship quarantine, I think we should start doing that with air travel. It’s the number one long-range transmitter of pandemics. It’s the enabler of global pandemics.

      Quarantine-free air travel should perhaps be treated as a privilege of living in a civilization with advanced medicine and monitoring, a privilege that could be revoked mid-flight for all flights in any given region, like the entirety of Europe.