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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I’d say it’s a given at this point.

    Trump has offended pretty much all of our major trade partners, so we need a new market to sell US goods as well as replace our imports. As it just so happens, Russia desperately needs goods due to the sanctions and has a reduced manufacturing capacity as a result of marching all their young (and not so young) men into a meat grinder. And even though Putin is a backstabbing, murderous, KGB thug Trump knows that he won’t touch him, because Trump’s just too useful of a flunky.

    Granted it’s a morally repugnant move, but when has that ever stopped Trump?







  • It’s an old idea, you’d basically have a sleepover of uninfected individuals with a few infected individuals. The idea was you’d give everyone the disease at the same time, meaning the next time the disease came through you’d have unified immunity, rather than a mix some individuals being immune and some still being susceptible having avoided infection the last time. It’s better than nothing for disease control, but only just barely.

    Of course, it became unnecessary with vaccines for the various diseases “treated” that way. Since with a vaccine you can gain immunity without actually having to catch the disease in question.