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Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say (www.ksl.com)

submitted 6 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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"It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family," she said.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Capitalism. Capitalism caused this. Big Tech is just a vessel that is used by capitalists to further their agenda.

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[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Big Tech is a force multiplier. It amplifies the scale and scope of the damage. To make an analogy, it's like replacing muskets with machine guns. Capitalism was headed this direction long before tech came along, but with tools like these in their pocket, the scale of the disinformation went from "a serious problem" to "an existential crisis", and the tools we have to resist it are simply incapable of holding the line against the firehose of BS.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

That’s what I was trying to say, but I like your explanation better than mine. 😅

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago