LillyPip @ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamst

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Aw. I was thinking this is perfect for under the placemats at truck stops.

You sabotaged my vision,

I'm Lilly Piper in BigScreen on Quest.

I'll be streaming the Star Wars Christmas Special in BigScreen on christmas day.

Let me know your username or friend me before that if you want t join. I've been doing this for a few years. It's pretty fun.

I'll have a room; you can friend me in advance, or just look for my room on christmas day. I've done this before, and it's fun. :)

e: I'll likely be drunk and kinda high, just so you're warned.

That 1 in 609 was about children under 12 months who contracted measles.

Yeah, and the larger number was in a largely vaccinated population.

The 1 in 609 number is in unvaccinated populations.

It’s kind of apples to oranges, where the oranges are very stupid and never get protection and the apples are protected.

It’s a bit hard to compare these ratios in progressive populations where some are really dumb.

I didn’t misquote. This disease doesn’t usually happen in infants – it happens in children and young adults who weren’t vaccinated as infants.

The wording may be confusing, but the point is you have a near exponential chance of getting this if you weren’t vaccinated as an infant, which is when we typically give this vaccination.

Yes, that’s the point.

Contrary to my sibling’s comment, the point here is that it’s 1 in 5,000 people who get measles despite being vaccinated, which is rather rare. This is why the number jumps so much in the unvaccinated (nothing to do with infants – it’s just that infants are when we normally give this vaccine; the disease usually happens in children and young adults who weren’t vaccinated as infants).

There are numbers missing: the vast amount of people who don’t contract measles because they were vaccinated isn’t identified here – just those who contract it despite being vaccinated (which is a much smaller amount of the population). Of those, 1 in 5,000 will get Dawson disease.
This is why it jumps so much in unvaccinated populations.

The 1 in 5,000 number is of people who do contract measles even though they were vaccinated, which is very small compared to unvaccinated numbers.

There are 2 sets of numbers here, and it’s only talking about that subset. Does that make sense?

We need to start calling this Trump’s Folly everywhere and for now on.

It won’t until it’s out from under Trump’s swampy fingers.

Groovy.

Ah. I forgot about the .ml thing.

Weird, I seem to have just posted this…

We are bioluminescent, though.

The real problem is our vision is too shit to detect it.

Glow on, beautiful people!

There. Are. Six. Hands.

So, TIL about Dawson disease, which affects like 1 in 5,000 people who contract measles. That sounds rare, and it is in most people who are vaccinated, but the numbers are far worse for unvaccinated populations. In unvaccinated populations, the rate goes up to 1 in 609.

Basically, you get measles and then seem fine, but up to 15 years later, you develop brain inflammation, seizures, spasms, and coma, and it’s basically 100% fatal. There’s no treatment or cure, and it hurts the whole time you’re dying. It’s similar to rabies, in that you lose all control and are guaranteed a protracted, painful death.

But yeah, vaccinations (that we all have been getting and that have like an 1 in a million chance of complications) are somehow what’s scary.

Totally shameless, and he would have loved this.

Quick reminder that Ivanka made her dad swear not to date anyone younger than her when she was 17.

Totally normal conversation for a teen girl to have with her father, and not horribly creepy at all.

Like, what the fuck prompted her to ask him to promise this?

Surely not whatever is implied by these photos:

But vinyl LPs... Is just different. It was never meant for on the road scenario

Says who? (Lol, wonder why this didn’t catch on…)

I came across a page that tried to document them by region and regularity. It was quite long.

You should pay the first few marks so they’ll help establish the veneer of credibility. That’s Conning 101.

I forget the corresponding Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number.

Shocked any received it, honestly.