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The story of Balto is interesting. He led a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter with diphtheria antitoxins to stop an outbreak in Nenana Alaska. Diphtheria is a deadly infectious disease that could wipe out a third of a townβs population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Baltoβs body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Heβs a big hero of mine!
Letβs not forget Togo! Who, at 12 years old during the serum run, lead his team 200 miles through much more dangerous conditions during the first leg of the journey before Balto ran the last 55-mile stretch.
Togo and Balto didnβt bust their asses for dying children for you to turn around and not vaccinate your damn kids
The actual story is fascinating.
The town of Nome, situated in Western Alaska, was a relative hub for even smaller communities in the region, but in winter was utterly cut off fromβ¦ nearly everywhere. The harbour iced over in winter, there were no roads connecting it anywhere else, the nearest railroad line was nearly 700 miles (1000+ kilometres) away in Nenana. Air travel was still new at the time and planes couldnβt handle the inclement winter weather.
In 1924, the community had a single doctor and a few nurses who served approximately 10 000 people, including large Eskimo populations in the area (the town itself had a population of roughly 1000 people - bear in mind how few children lived in this community when you see the casualty counts). He had realized his diphtheria vaccine stock was expired and had ordered more from mainland USA months earlier. When it failed to arrive on the final ship of the season, he was a little concerned, but diphtheria was fairly rare, and he figured heβd just restock in the spring.
Of all the rotten luck, January 1925 was when a diphtheria outbreak hit the region.
There was a scramble, in the mainland USA as well as Alaska, to find a way to get the vaccine to this town in the middle of winter. There were attempts to fly a vaccine supply over, but the planes were grounded by storms. This was part of the United States in the 1920s. There was no way to get there.
Except by sled dogs, running the vaccine from that train station in Nenana, 674 miles away. Over 1000 kilometres away, in the dead of winter in Alaska, by 20 mushers (mostly native Athabaskans) and 150 sled dogs running in relay, switching off at tiny villages and rest stations along the way. It was bitterly cold. As in, -85Β°F (-60Β°C) at the coldest. There were blizzards, hurricane force winds, and at some points visibility was so poor the men couldnβt see their dogs in front of them.
No man or beast should have been out in that. You freeze in seconds if youβre not moving. Multiple dogs died from being run so hard in such cold weather. Mushers grappled with hypothermia and frostbite. One needed hot water poured over his frozen hands because he was frozen to his sled. Anotherβs face was black with frostbite. Some strapped themselves up and lead their packs when their lead dogs collapsed.
This relay team traveled 674 miles in 5.5 days. Togo and his owner, Leonhard Seppala, did by far the longest and most dangerous run, travelling over 260 miles (about 420 kilometres) including the initial travel to his pickup spot. Gunnar Kaasen and his lead dog, Balto, did the final 53 miles (85 kilometres) into Nome, where they were greeted as heroes.
Prior to the vaccine arriving in Nome, 5-7 children officially died of diphtheria, with dozens of confirmed cases who may well have died without treatment - but itβs suspected the surrounding Indigenous communities were much harder hit, with numbers impossible to confirm.
When you think that this happened less than 100 years ago, how desperate this community was for a vaccine, how much these mushers risked and lost to get it to this town as fast as they possibly couldβ¦
I wonder what theyβd think of people today.
(this is the Iditarod. this trek to deliver vaccines was so important, that we immortalized it the way we immortalized the marathon.)
I saw people posting the other letters, so I decided to share mine. I translated(idk the word) the letter to print for those who can't read cursive. If I made any mistakes, please tell me.
obsessed with this vid from the official smithsonian national zoo page
Donβt look at things you know will make you angry. Donβt read the comment sections. Donβt look at the blogs of people who add dumb comments to posts to confirm that theyβre dumb all the time. Donβt read old conversations you had with people you donβt talk to anymore. Go look at pictures of kittens or something instead. Protect yourself from negativity in every way you can.
I cannot even begin to explain the peace that was blessed upon me when I realized this.
Your entire Internet experience is one curated to your engagement. If you engage with angry content, the algos will feed you more of it. If you engage with cute kittens, the algos will feed you more of them. The system is designed to give you when you engage with, so make sure youβre feeding it what you actually want in your life and curate your own experience.
Feed the good wolf in you πΊβ¨
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softly the waves are trilling πππ
Waterβ¦.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817β1900), "Storm over the Black Sea" (detail), 1893
Your phone battery percentage determines what year of the 1900s you'll live in.
How screwed are you?
96, guess I gotta stop 9/11? As a 4 year old.
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65, i could roll with that
1976, oh greatβ¦
1901...
N7 Day 2023 full teaser trailer
"Transmission received."
Here BioWare have posted the full video (all three teaser videos that came out today stitched) as one clip.
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βSoldiers like the Commander are rare. Women like Shepardβ¦ even more rare.β
Happy N7 Day you all! ππ
Happy N7 Day to everyone except BioWare.