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“Mesovortices” is a great word. Interesting thread on #HurricaneIda https://twitter.com/logangileswx/status/1432073639059460102 …

The problem with the word privilege is it refers either to things no one should have (i.e. the ability to have everyone cater to you despite being a cruel numpty), or to something everyone should have (i.e. the ability to go about your day without being murdered by a cop).

The fact that parents have $50,000 a year to send their kids to Dalton is directly related to the fact that so many public schools are crumbling. No amount of privilege checks at Dalton can make up for the criminal wealth disparities Dalton relies on to exist.

Long-term? We need to realize that without education, empowerment, and *accountability* for pharma, miracle technologies like vaccines are useless. 1. Education needs to change starting at a young age. 2. Community outreach at all times. 3. Pharma execs who mess up go to jail.

There's only two solutions to vaccine refusal. The short-term solution is extremely strict mandates. Everywhere. Schools. Businesses. Work. Only medical exemptions. No "religious" exemptions—take it from me, a religious studies scholar, those religions don't exist.

Ethiopian TV shows machete-wielding militia. Honestly this is appalling. If this is not a cue for genocide I really don't know what is. In Rwanda, the machete was the weapon of choice. It was imported by genocidaires in Habyarimana's government.https://twitter.com/zeaxumawit/status/1431732052169166853 …

So no, the Founders would not have turned over in their graves. But, to be fair, you gotta admit... The anti-vaxxer movement and white people dying science because of their "freedoms" is a time-honored American tradition.

See, that study never actually said that vaccines cause autism. But, just like in 1706 and 1806 and 1906, newspapers didn't really understand science, so they just wrote what they heard Wakefield say. But the other doctors in the study said, "Ummm… that's not what we found."

Newspapers called the so-called vaccine mandate the "greatest crime of the age" and said it was "worse than slavery." To be fair, it's possible that the people in this city didn't really know much about vaccines because it happened in *checks notes*... IN BOSTON MASSACHUSSETTS!

I'm not saying this guy was more intelligent than you, but when you talk about your "freedoms" & what the Founders stood for, you should know that this guy was kinda like a Founding Father. His nickname was "The first American" But most people just call him Ben Franklin

But that publisher's little brother, who was printing those anti-vaxx pamphlets, he was too embarrassed to get his kids vaccinated and his son died. He regretted it so much that he moved to Philadelphia, opened America's first hospital.

Only 6 of the 248 people inoculated by Onesimus' recipe died—or one in 40. Massachusetts quickly became the first state to promote public vaccination. The next year, another smallpox epidemic hit. Less than 3% even caught it. It worked.

It sparked the first anti-vaxxer movement. They even firebombed Mather's house with a note that said "I will inoculate you with this." Then, in 1721, 5,889 people in Boston – about 1/2 the town– caught smallpox & 1 out of every 7 died.

When white people heard this, they lost their minds. One Boston newspaper stayed impartial. But the publisher and his little brother secretly printed pamphlets that said the slaves were trying to kill the white people by injecting them with smallpox