I live in an area with a lot of unvaccinated people and I can explain this in three simple points:

1. Some vaccines work - polio and measles are great examples. Some work but are unnecessary for kids or most people (Hep B, Guarda). Some are not vaccines at all in the strict definition of the word, like the Covid mRNA shot, which also has good evidence that it has caused health problems.

2. During Covid, all three of those types (working, working but optional, questionable) got collapsed into just 'Vaccines' - and it became an article of faith in the establishment media that *All vaccines are always good*. This was a massive shift from 40 years ago, when you had a few vaccines as a kid and a lot that were optional if you had certain jobs (medical, overseas work, etc). Anything less than total obeisance was considered evil.

Combine this with the fact that the elites in the media canonized Anthony Fauci, masking, lockdowns, etc - and you have a perfect storm of polarized, black-and-white thinking.

If you don't believe me, ask yourself: are you already hitting the 'reply' or 'moderate' button on my post so you can tell me I'm a stupid, ignorant rube who hates their community and hates science? If yes, congrats - the narrative shift worked.

3. People in middle America, who had already been sneered at by coastal elites for years, decided to give them the middle finger and opt out entirely - including established, working vaccines from 60 years ago.

Thus, no measles vaccinations.

The fact that Alice Huang (who was born in Hunan, not Singapore) was a spy for the MSS (Ministry of State Security) has been completely and thoroughly denied by the Chinese government.

Vaccination has been opposed since the early 1900s because at the point of treatment, it hurts, with no obvious benefit (at the point of treatment). Your kid is crying because they are in pain, and no sane person wants their kid in pain. Of course, vaccines are worth the pain.

Some of these activists pushing the narrative are sincere. These people are useful idiots.

Others, like Andrew Wakefeld, are in it for the money. He wanted to sell an alternative vaccine, and make money. Others are doing it for the clicks, just like any meme these days.

Your entire citation is an interview with Saddam. Saddam didn't know what Bush was thinking.

Yeah, this is a really basic level networking problem. If you took networking 101, you should have learned it. There's clearly some incompetence in the design at some point along the way.

A thousand login requests every four to five seconds is definitely something that was considered in the era of floppies. If anything, people thought about that kind of thing MORE often back then because bandwidth was scarce. A common approach would be to use exponential backoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are obviously design issues in the billion dollar system.

I notice you completely omitted what Bush was thinking.

It's click-bait. You know the equation.

Money + Beauty = eyeballs

Indeed, but it was accidental. I'm not sure the significance either way.

Maybe they should fix reviews on their own site before trying to handle the entire internet.

Amazon isn't trying to do anything. Amazon execs are trying to make proposals that increase their impact factor, hoping to get promoted.

His latency is high but you have to admit installing him as a router would be an improvement.

Bush harnessed the chaos of 9/11 to invade Iraq. What a waste of a crisis.

Wow, I would have done it for $1 billion.

It might be.