i might just fuck around and put a loaf of bread, a wedge of cheese, and an apple into a handkerchief, tie it to a stick, and hop on a freight train headed west
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 town’s population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Balto’s body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
He’s a big hero of mine!
Let’s 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 didn’t bust their asses for dying children for you to turn around and not vaccinate your damn kids
Me, this morning: “It’s a good thing we don’t have as much a problem with anti-maskers harassing us lately. It’s probably safe to leave the back door unlocked.”
…aaaand just now a woman came in without a mask, swore at me when I said she has to wear one inside our building, told me that it was against her religion and she’d call the police on me and go to the news about my religious discrimination, then followed me around the room screaming and breathing at me and attempted to bat the masks I offered out of my hand. I told her that if she did not leave I would call the police, and if she did not step away from me I would use pepper spray. She swore at me again and left saying she would bring her whole family back and we could deal with her lawyer if we tried to stop her.
I have this image of you dealing with her as she scuttles around like some kind of cryptid old hag creature, climbing walls and hissing at you, while you calmly swing a broom at her and tell her to leave.
She had, uncannily, the exact vibes of Gayle from Chris Fleming’s videos.
Afterwards she sent her husband to harass us as well, but he didn’t cuss and scream, just pretended not to hear us as he slowly walked around the room and touched everything.
They’re both at the right age that I suspect they probably spent the 80’s and 90’s calling for the mass arrest or extermination of gay people for being “disease vectors” and spreading HIV.
