By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026Rusty's shingles experience was the *best* case. He didn't end up with years of crippling nerve pain. He didn't lose his sight or hearing, didn't experience brain damage, didn't *die* of encephalitis. Fuck *yeah* I'll get a shingles vax. 11015
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026As many people have observed, the problem with vaccines is that they work *too* well. The incredible, astounding, profound wonders of vaccines led many people to think of measles as a rash, the flu as a bad cold, mumps as a thing that makes you look like Brando playing Don Corleone. 319350
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026Vaccines worked so well to eliminate a terror that stalked the land and stole people's lives and loved ones and little children, an achy arm or an infinitesimal chance of a few days of feeling like shit seemed worse by comparison. 316139
Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 10/09/2026I have no idea if this term already has a specific meaning, but I’ve cond to think of this whole deal as the “paradox of modernity” 010
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I remember being taken to see 'Gone With the Wind' as a child. Was bored to distraction. The only amusing point was the letter to Scarlett informing her of her husband's death from... measles!? Who does that, I thought. I... um, know better now. 000
