Notices by kralcttam ☕️ (kralcttam@mastodon.social)

@br00t4c The usual mortality rate is only one in a thousand, so cases are likely underreported.

@Stevenheywood @Infoseepage @ferricoxide @arstechnica They used to not even name children until they turned two, so as not to get attached.

@ferricoxide @arstechnica Right. My dad (81 years old) has this memory. He knew people who were paralyzed from polio. He knew families that lost a child to measles. He knew people who were sterile from mumps. Well, soon we will again know this.

In Samoa it only took four months:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak

@lauren My ten year old son says he can’t trust Google results anymore. He says it just returns “a bunch of made up stuff.”

@adamconover I hope it’s the first half of a Neal Stephenson novel where a beautifully elaborate stage is being meticulously set and not the second half where he just wraps everything up Game of Thrones style with a brief sidebar on regular expressions.

@GottaLaff

Elections are won or lost in the last two weeks. And wow, what a week this has been.

"In 2000, eighteen per cent said that they decided which Presidential candidate to vote for only in the last two weeks of the campaign; five per cent, enough to swing most elections, decided the day they voted."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/30/the-unpolitical-animal