• @Yodan@lemm.ee
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    913 months ago

    What the fuck my grandpa had a skinny leg and a hole in his back from medical tubes due to polio as a kid, this shit is no joke

  • Jeena
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    813 months ago

    My dads best friend had polio as a child. He still found a wife and had two wonderful children and a fulfilled life. Just because your legs are crippled, you need leg braces, special shoes and a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can’t have a great life!

    /s

  • @thr0wmeaway@sh.itjust.works
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    773 months ago

    You’d think they’re already murdering enough of us with the expensive/delayed/denied healthcare, the starvation wages, the cruel for-profit prisons, the cops, and the refusal to give even emergency abortions…but nope…they want to murder more of us.

    #FreeLuigi

  • @Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    This is a world-laughs-at-you, history-book-making, memes-for-a-century level headline.

    America thinks it’s The Federation but really it’s the result of a torrid affair between the Ferengi and the SamaritansPakleds.

    Have a nice day, America. This guy was clearly out of reach.

    Edit: goofed

  • Tarquinn2049
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    “No-one even really gets polio anymore, so it’s just a waste of money…”

  • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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    Fuck this idiot piece of shit. Hasn’t even started and I’m so sick of this nation again.

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      Seriously. I’m going to be the most bitter and continuously angry person you’ve ever met by the end of this four years, and I’m not looking forward to it one bit.

      Make no mistake though, I’m going to be so free with “aren’t you glad this is what you voted for” to magas in my family and at work that the schadenfreude alone will be enough to power a small city.

      • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        Don’t worry, they may only get two years, but the damage they can deal will probably last the rest of your life. And if you’re transgender, the rest of your life might even be done before the two years are up.

    • @psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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      I feel like my “being able to tolerate living in a nation led by imbeciles” meter had barely started refilling this past four years. I think I needed 16 or so for something close to a full recharge. I’m prepared to reach new lows.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    MALILA!

    (Make America Live in Iron Lungs Again)

    Should we be making efforts to preserve guidance pages from cdc.gov, or do we trust that Internet Archive will survive through this administration to provide archived copies via wayback machine?

    • @karashta@lemm.ee
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      If there’s a file of this somewhere for me to archive, I’ve likely got space.

      I’ve already got Wikipedia, medwiki and a few others in local files as I expect any fascist to destroy information and replace it with whatever suits their narrative

      • Admiral Patrick
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        33 months ago

        Not sure / not that I’m aware of. I was going to see if anyone was working on crowdsourcing an archive via scraping or some similar method. Does Wayback Machine let you download archives, maybe?

    • @sdcSpade@lemmy.zip
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      You won’t have to live in an iron lung if your health care provider refuses to cover the cost. See? The system works!

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    333 months ago

    This administration is going to ruin the lives of/kill so many people.

    The upside of Covid is that we jump-started vaccine research and have seen so much stuff at scale, and quickly. It might hold huge promise for things like cancer treatment.

    And these absolute fucking clowns are going to probably stall all that out. I sure hope other countries are not impacted in any way by this complete idiocy. The idea that complete morons would kill scientific progress like this is infuriating.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    Bitch of it is that we almost drove that virus into irrelevant cycles. I think I read a couple of years ago that the UN believed we could declare victory on the disease by focusing on some suffering African areas. Who knew th at a western country of 300+ million would want to make iron lungs fashionable again? Sorry, Dr. Salk.

  • Jessica
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    283 months ago

    I hate that I wish such terrible things on these terrible people.

    • @luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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      I once held a long-standing conviction to wish no harm on anyone, even on people doing harm to others. The reasoning was that it would be better if they were to start doing good instead, so that is what I should wish for them: That they fell compelled to undo their mistake. Their pain doesn’t help anyone, so there’s no reason to wish pain on them.

      But more and more often, I find myself in your shoes.