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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 townâs population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Baltoâs body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Heâs a big hero of mine!
Letâs 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 didnât 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 from⌠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 couldnât 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 heâd 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, -85°F (-60°C) at the coldest. There were blizzards, hurricane force winds, and at some points visibility was so poor the men couldnât see their dogs in front of them.
No man or beast should have been out in that. You freeze in seconds if youâre 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. Anotherâs 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 itâs 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 couldâŚ
I wonder what theyâd 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.)
MATTJESS + Jessica teasing Matt about his headwear choices
The Defenders S01E03, 'Worst Behavior '
The Defenders S01E05, 'Take Shelter '
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The Blues Brothers (1980)
Donât hit Nazis with your fist
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The moment you realize "Maxwell's Demon" is not some angsty bit of L2 lore, but was G referring to thought experiments regarding the laws of thermodynamics.
For the uninitiated, the "Maxwell's Demon" thought experiment says that you expend energy to create order from chaos, while you become more disordered in the process.
This twink wishes he was HALF the weirdo.
I love how this sentence could apply in either direction
no it couldn't. show gonzo some respect.
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the amount of people in the notes that havenât read the fucking map is astonishing
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Steve From âBlueâs Cluesâ Just Checked In On âThe Kids He Raisedâ And Gave Them A Safe Space To Offload After Donald Trumpâs Election Victory.
Interestingly, Steve doesnât even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and âoffers themâ a hot drink.
And many of the comments thanked Steve for offering them this safe space, with one person writing: âAs a trans man, I felt this to my core. I took the breath with you then started bawling. Thank you.â
âThe man who is a staple of my childhood didnât say a single word and it brought me to tears. Steve, thank you. I donât know where we go from here,â somebody else wrote.
Another popular comment reads: âHe didnât say A WORD and said everything at the same time. This man should be guarded at all costs.â
âNeither of my dads checked in on me today. But you did Steve. Thank you,â one more acknowledged.
âSo much responsibility on Steveâs hands to make sure we are okay. We need to make sure heâs doing okay too. I mean Iâm not doing great, but heâs still looking after the kids he raised,â somebody else added.
While another concluded: âI bet you didnât think youâd still be raising us all these years later, Steve, but thank you for still being here.â
For those who are not on TikTok or have never had Steve show up on their FYP, there is some very important context missing here...
Steve's whole page is just him asking the viewer how they are doing and then remaining silent while "listening" very intently. The comments are then filled with people updating him on how they are.
This is why the post-election post hit so hard for folks.
He didn't ask how we are doing.
He didn't need to.
He just gives us a mug of our favorite hot beverage and a thoughtful nod, then stands with you for a minute, listening, just to let you know that none of us are alone.
Wait! There's one more thing I forgot to mention. In case you didn't know and needed another reason to love him.
His Tiktok channel? All his videos are 59 seconds long.
Which means he cannot monetize them. Which means he makes zero dollars from this wonderful thing he does and he just does this to make us all feel like he's still looking out for us.
Steeeeeeve.
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