Imagine having to actually say this shit:
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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

I mean... From a practical perspective we _are_ functionally cognitively impaired, right? Certainly collectively.
But if you let some rich folks spend five fucking decades trying to convince the people who already had a shaky relationship with science that, "Science ain't so great. What if I just punched you in the face," is a legitimate rejoinder during a debate...
Well, we wind up _here_.

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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

Also worth reading
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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I mean... From a practical perspective we _are_ functionally cognitively impaired, right? Certainly collectively.
But if you let some rich folks spend five fucking decades trying to convince the people who already had a shaky relationship with science that, "Science ain't so great. What if I just punched you in the face," is a legitimate rejoinder during a debate...
Well, we wind up _here_.

@401matthall apparently so.
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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

@Remittancegirl would love to see an update reflecting the altered trends that have become obvious to anyone with the ability to look at this using critical thinking skills
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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

@Remittancegirl uh, er, isn't an extended consequence of COVID severe cognitive impairment? and society has let that run rampant.
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Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

@Remittancegirl
Given the link between fine particle pollution and Alzheimer's, and the "let it rip" approach to COVID, maybe we largely are suffering from severe cognitive impairment -
Imagine having to actually say this shit:
The measles vaccine prevents children from getting the measles.
It's 2026 and we've all resorted to speaking to each other as if we're all suffering from severe cognitive impairment.
How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
Corruption is a germ’s best friend
(paulkrugman.substack.com)

The proof is in the data.
You’d have to be either rather ignorant or simply plain evil not to see that…
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R relay@relay.an.exchange shared this topic
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Also worth reading
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
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