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Someone got paralyzed by polio, in New York, USA in 2022. Completely preventable. History needs to be taught.
by ianlevesque 3y ago
Someone got paralyzed by polio, in New York, USA in 2022. Completely preventable. History needs to be taught.
- ClassyJacket 3y ago[flagged]
- WeylandYutani 3y agoIf your children aren't vaccinated you can't send them to daycare. That's how we deal with people like that.
- barryrandall 3y agoWe already teach history. Either there's something wrong with how we're doing it (highly plausible) or it's something else (highly plausible).
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- mrguyorama 3y agoThe problem is that certain people don't care if "others" are getting polio because it's not happening to them They lack empathy, or even the basic understanding that helping the lowest in society almost always pays dividends.
- ianlevesque 3y agoI think so much time is spent on things like the Roman Empire that we never get to details like “the reason the top half of the glass windows in this very classroom swing down and the radiators are hotter than the sun is so that they could ventilate all winter when respiratory diseases were at their peak.”