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Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.

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  • cinnabarfaun@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats right, because Togo did it. Balto was just given all the credit becuse he did the final leg.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well you’re right. Balto didn’t do it.

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    • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fuckin stolen valor asshole dog

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      • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        He was a good boy, don’t blame him for what people did.

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      • if_only@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t quite remember the story, but I don’t think Balto had much of a say in his portrayal

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      • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • parody@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        lol

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Neither did Balatro

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    • cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You joker

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      • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        remember to spade and neuter your pets. o7

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  • syreus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It did exist. It was developed in 1923.

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  • knight_alva@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Been a while. Was it a vaccine? I thought it was penicillin he was hauling.

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    • knight_alva@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Makes sense. Unfortunately diptheria will be swelling soon

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      • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Antitoxin serum!? You gonna tell me what I should put in my kids bodies? Hell no! That’s communisocialism

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They don’t have sled dogs in Florida.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      soon they won’t have kids either

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      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Probably for the best… No child should have to live in Florida.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do they use sled alligators?

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      • yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, alligators are lazy, ambush predators that stalk and move slowly. Crocodiles are more versatile, faster, and have more stamina for sledding.

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  • WilloftheWest@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure this is the case, but I like to imagine that the statue is polished from people petting it.

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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+

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pshhh. What do you mean? What u don’t personally experience as being real isn’t real.

    Duh…

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  • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alberta

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