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I literally just went there to check it out. I'm on old reddit, and r/all is still in the "tabs" section on the top of the page. r/all is clickable, it brings up content, and the top post is just over an hour old (and I clicked through to verify the time on the post.

Cuba's a good choice!

$5 - boots on the ground in/near Iran. He's gotta vent that rage somehow.

Even if they decide not to support fascism in this one specific case, they have deliberately, intentionally and repeatedly encouraged the development of facism in multiple other cases.

I'm so happy for you that she got cleared!

I beg to differ:

There will be no punishment and no investigation after two Army military helicopters were flown by Kid Rock’s house over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. The Army had suspended the aircrew in Saturday's incident, a U.S. official said earlier Tuesday, but Hegseth announced Tuesday evening that no suspension or punishment would be forthcoming.

Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes ...

I'm saying that measles outbreaks are nothing new.

And I'm pointing out the 97% effectiveness of the vaccine, because that's hideously close to the 95% immunity level needed for herd immunity. And the 95% matters because even if there were no antivaxxers in the country, we still wouldn't have herd immunity, because:

There is a significant percentage of people who believe they were vaccinated, but who are actually undervaxxed: anyone in the '57-'67 cohort who didn't get a booster as an adult is undervaxxed, and people in the '67-89 cohort who didn't get a booster are very likely undervaxxed. And once you combine the people who are undervaxxed with the people for whom the vaccine didn't work, we're past the 95% herd immunity threshold.

Prior outbreaks were held in check by a lot of work and outreach by public health workers, and those workers have been defunded.

Are antivaxxers contributing to the current outbreak? Absolutely! But that's not the only factor involved.

It certainly doesn't help that AI has a lot of problems identifying PoC.

Smallpox has an r0 of 3: in a completely naive population, each person with the disease will infect 3 other people. If 80% of the population is immune, the disease should eventually die out.

Polio has an r0 of about 6, and needs about 80-85% of the population to be immune to prevent it's spread. [There's a whole debate about the use of IPV vs OPV in the struggle to eliminate polio, which is interesting if you want to delve into it.]

Measles is among the most contagious diseases we've ever encountered; it has an r0 of about 14. To get measles to die out, you need a minimum 95% immunity rate. 3% of the people who get vaccinated for measles will never develop sufficient immune response to the vaccine and will still be able to catch and spread the disease. That leaves a razor-thin 2% leeway before herd immunity starts to fail. And there's way more than 2% of the US population in the '57-'67 and '67-'89 cohorts who haven't gotten a booster to make herd immunity problematic.

Do anti-vax communities provide vectors for the introduction of measles? Absolutely; the have been many outbreaks among the extreme Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and Northern New Jersey City that exact reason; and the current big outbreaks originated with old school Mennonites in the Southwest.

Does the decrease in vaccination rates enable measles to spread much more rapidly and easily than before? Absolutely!

But the reason measles is spreading in the US has multiple causes: its incredible contagiousness, the decrease in herd immunity, a lack of funding for public health campaigns; the rise of cellphones and scammers/spammers; the absolute gutting of the public health infrastructure; and other elements that I'm not currently thinking of. Reducing the issue to "antivaxxers bad" minimizes other contributing factors.

I'm heavily pro-vaccine and I'm not defending antivaxxers; I'm just seeing this as a more complex issue than other people seem to.

Remember the last shutdown, when we had the Republicans over a barrel and almost every Democrat in the nation was like, "Finally! This is the line and we're not backing down!" - and then Schumer backed down in return for a measly promise that Democratic issues would be 'considered' [completely ignored] the next month?

He's 75, he thinks the government still works like it used to (and actually still works, lol), and we desperately need a change of leadership away from the Schumer's and the Pelosi's.

I absolutely loathe the situation that we're in, and I hate any piece of news with him or his regime in it - but occasionally I really do like the schadenfreude I get from watching him squirm on his own idiocy.