RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/115963873612884664

[arafel@mas.to]

@Remittancegirl @cstross I'm sorry to hear about your friend. The priest earns marks there I feel, I hope he carried on for a long time.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@arafel He definitely helped her parents - who were devoutly Catholic and frantic about the state of her immortal soul. @cstross

[arafel@mas.to]

@bjn @cstross @lauren It's not, but I'm starting to think that the proponents of "stop vaccinating, natural selection!" should be left in a wilderness area for a week or two, on their own, with whatever tools they can make. Natural selection, right?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@arafel @bjn @lauren Preferably a wilderness area rewilded with cloned-from-DNA-samples sabretooth tigers.

[arafel@mas.to]

@cstross @bjn @lauren Well, ideally, yes. But I'm not a perfectionist, no need to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Areas densely populated by black bears would work just as well. Or even polar bears, if we're going for neutral territory to avoid favouritism.

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@cstross Good time to remind Brits that while the K in #RFK Jr. still stand for Kennedy, the RF now stands for ‘Rat Fucker’.

#Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol.

[myrddinemerys@ohai.social]

@cstross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor)

Considering he died not that long ago means there are polio survivors probably still floating around, so it isn’t that long ago polio was killing people. I also remember my mom talking about her mom taking them and standing in line for the vaccine when it came out because she knew how deadly it was.

[farbel@mas.to]

@cstross Trump is already the most prolific mass-murderer in history. They should give him an award. Something like a golden swaztika.

[gutterpoetry@mastodon.me.uk]

@cstross

There would be more kids left disabled or permanently harmed from these diseases, even if they did survive.

I've heard these 'common sense' views before but they're unscientific - the immune system doesn't get stronger from exposure to disease. It doesn't need to be exercised.