Thats right, because Togo did it. Balto was just given all the credit becuse he did the final leg.
Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.
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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Well you’re right. Balto didn’t do it.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuckin stolen valor asshole dog
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He was a good boy, don’t blame him for what people did.
if_only@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Fuck that. Balto’s owner was the asshole. Balto himself and his team spent years malnourished and chained to a sled in a freak show wondering what they did wrong, and when they were finally “rescued” they wound up in a zoo. Well fed, but in cages while people gawked at them. Balto watched the rest of his team die one by one until he himself died blind and paralyzed.
Togo spent the rest of his life with his family. Neither dog knew they were famous or why, but Togo knew he was loved.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t quite remember the story, but I don’t think Balto had much of a say in his portrayal
Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I think Togo won in the end, because Balto and his sled team basically became freak show animals and later live museum exhibits, chained and starving, like they weren’t living creatures at all. They were later rescued and ended their days as zoo animals. After Balto died he was stuffed and put in a museum.
Meanwhile Togo and his team went on tours, were given gold medals, continuing their lives as sled dogs and Togo got to retire in a nice kennel where he was bred and lived well until he was euthanized at the age of 16 due to health complications.
Don’t feel bad for Togo. He may have been largely forgotten to history, but he sure as shit won the life lottery compared to Balto.
parody@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
lol
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We have to draw a hard line with these traitors. Mandatory vaccination for everyone entering decent states from traitor states.
analog_fluffy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Are you a vaccine scientist?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Are you a conscious being? Signs point to no.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Who amongst us isn’t?
syreus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The sled dog team led by Balto didn’t deliver vaccines. The vaccine for Diphtheria didn’t exist in 1925.
They delivered diphtheria antitoxin serum which was the only treatment at the time.
The image has a good sentiment though. The Florida change is just more undermining of public schools to push private charter school enrollment. These bozos in our government voted in vouchers to directly subsidize the businesses they themselves are invested in.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It did exist. It was developed in 1923.
syreus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was initially discovered on the other side of the planet in a french lab in 1923. It wasnt widely adopted until the 30s. But yeah it technically did “exist”. In hindsight I should have just said it wasn’t available.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The goodest of good boys.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
He actually had a very troubling social media presence on “The Chihuahua Question”
untorquer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Neither did Balatro
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You joker
untorquer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
remember to spade and neuter your pets. o7
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Good reminder to give that game another chunk of my life.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They don’t have sled dogs in Florida.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
soon they won’t have kids either
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably for the best… No child should have to live in Florida.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Feel bad joking about it but it sounds like a cutting cost program. Moving from No kids left behind to just no kids left
Rusty@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Do they use sled alligators?
yeather@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No, alligators are lazy, ambush predators that stalk and move slowly. Crocodiles are more versatile, faster, and have more stamina for sledding.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Only at christmastime.
‘Twas the night before Christmas An’ all t’ru de house…’
knight_alva@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Been a while. Was it a vaccine? I thought it was penicillin he was hauling.
knight_alva@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Looked it up. We are both wrong. Apparently it was a specific antitoxin serum for diphtheria. Still not a vaccine but also not penicillin.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Makes sense. Unfortunately diptheria will be swelling soon
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Antitoxin serum!? You gonna tell me what I should put in my kids bodies? Hell no! That’s communisocialism
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It was actually several different sled dogs that made the trip and Togo did the longest and most difficult part. There’s a movie about Togo on Disney+
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Listen, smart arse, ive never been deathly ill in all my life, so what was the point of getting all these vaccines?
Checkmate, big-pharma bootlickers.
WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure this is the case, but I like to imagine that the statue is polished from people petting it.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Oh boy, shaming! Featuring, fall in line bich! And now including, not doing what i say is stupid!
Real take: all vaccines should come w free wifi.
Kage520@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had a patient say to me “The only vaccine I ever got in my life was Polio, and I regret it. It was about to be eradicated from humanity!”
Dude totally doesn’t get it.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Real take: all vaccines should come w free wifi.
Can mine make my dick bigger?
analog_fluffy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
To be fair, the covid vaccine isn’t a vaccine. It’s experimental genetic therapy (created by a corporation that would happily murder you for profit).
That’s the facts.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
analog_fluffy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ok. Who should I listen to?
yistdaj@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
RNA vaccines may be relatively new, but they aren’t genetic therapy. It does not get integrated into your DNA.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure you misunderstood the way these vaccines work - no judgment, media is ass these days - so let me clear it out for you.
mRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna) give cells a piece of RNA (ribonucleic acid) coding the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. mRNA normally serves as a translation layer: it simply comes to rRNA, lays down and says “we make THIS”. And there’s the end of it. No long-term changes are made, the cell just produces respective proteins for a while, before new genuine orders come along.
In this process, spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 are being created, are being recognized by the immune system as something that is clearly not yours, destroyed and remembered. Spike-coding RNA does not replicate without being written into DNA and ceases to function.
Vector vaccines (Johnson & Johnson, Sputnik V) put the spike-coding sequence into another virus that is otherwise harmless. Then this virus enters your body with a shot, and then much the same thing occurs.
To be clear: viruses do these kinds of things all the time. SARS-CoV-2, that very virus causing COVID-19, does this too, except it instructs cells to replicate the entire thing, so that it could infect other cells and proliferate. In this way, such vaccines are no different than just getting infected, with one MAJOR difference in that you don’t get sick in the first place and don’t have random dangerous code replicate all around your body. Harmless spike proteins get formed in a controlled manner and quantity - and that’s it.
Even if you were an evil billionaire wishing to decimate human population or something, you’d have very hard time making something RNA-based that somehow persists in the body and also doesn’t reveal the effects for a long while. Easier to do with vector-based vaccines, but very hard to make it unnoticeable, either.
analog_fluffy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A vaccine was once “a weakened form of the pathogen, introduced so the body could create antigens without actually becoming ill”. Your technobabble (sorry) sounds like something different.
dyc3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease. The COVID-19 vaccines do exactly this.
It trains your body to fight the disease. The methods and techniques are different but the fundamentals are still the same. It’s ridiculous to think that its permanent genetic modification.
BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only “genetic modification” that I understand happening is the modification to our immune systems being able to fight diseases much better than before. Eventually getting rid of diseases entirely.
But I guess people thought that was stupid, so now we have measles again like its 1953
kossa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Traditional vaccines work, because your immune cells learn about the “key” they need, to open up the virus and destroy it.
mRNA is basically just shipping the “keyhole” instead of the whole virus organism for your body to learn the pattern. So no crazy “gene therapy”. It is just more precise.
Like, back in the day, people used maps to navigate. Now you use crazy GPS space stuff to do the same. Just better technology for the same end.
analog_fluffy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s a nice story. I’m on the fence tho
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
You nailed the murder for profit part, but you really missed the mark on everything else
analog_fluffy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
There was only one other thing
yistdaj@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
By the way, why do you think mRNA vaccines are genetic therapy?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pshhh. What do you mean? What u don’t personally experience as being real isn’t real.
Duh…
rabber@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Alberta
cinnabarfaun@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Folks have already pointed out the whole “multiple teams of sled dogs” thing.
The dogs also weren’t delivering vaccine. They were delivering diphtheria antitoxin, which is a treatment for diphtheria, not an inoculation. The kids were already sick.
There was technically a vaccine for diphtheria then (it was invented in 1923, two years before this epidemic), but it wouldn’t have saved anyone who’d already caught the infection.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
people really do not understand what vaccines do
justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yuh-huh! They give autism! /s