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Folks have already pointed out the whole "multiple teams of sled dogs" thing.
The dogs also weren't delivering vaccine. They were delivering diphtheria antitoxin, which is a treatment for diphtheria, not an inoculation. The kids were already sick.
There was technically a vaccine for diphtheria then (it was invented in 1923, two years before this epidemic), but it wouldn't have saved anyone who'd already caught the infection.
Thats right, because Togo did it. Balto was just given all the credit becuse he did the final leg.
Well you're right. Balto didn't do it.
Fuckin stolen valor asshole dog
He was a good boy, don't blame him for what people did.
Oh sorry, I'm biased against huskies in general. I think they're all assholes.
They are, but dogs can be assholes and good at the same time. People, on the other hand...
Fuck that. Balto's owner was the asshole. Balto himself and his team were sold and spent years malnourished and chained to a sled in a freak show wondering what they did wrong, and when they were finally "rescued" they wound up in a zoo. Well fed, but in cages while people gawked at them. Balto watched the rest of his team die one by one until he himself died blind and paralyzed.
Togo spent the rest of his life with his family. Neither dog knew they were famous or why, but Togo knew he was loved.
I actually didn't know that, fuck our species
Goddammit. Why do even the good dog stories have sad endings. Every damn time.
I don't quite remember the story, but I don't think Balto had much of a say in his portrayal
I think Togo won in the end, because Balto and his sled team basically became freak show animals and later live museum exhibits, chained and starving, like they weren't living creatures at all. They were later rescued and ended their days as zoo animals. After Balto died he was stuffed and put in a museum.
Meanwhile Togo and his team went on tours, were given gold medals, continuing their lives as sled dogs and Togo got to retire in a nice kennel where he was bred and lived well until he was euthanized at the age of 16 due to health complications.
Don't feel bad for Togo. He may have been largely forgotten to history, but he sure as shit won the life lottery compared to Balto.
Also he finally got a pretty good movie starring Willem Dafoe.
We have to draw a hard line with these traitors. Mandatory vaccination for everyone entering decent states from traitor states.
The sled dog team led by Balto didn't deliver vaccines. The vaccine for Diphtheria didn't exist in 1925.
They delivered diphtheria antitoxin serum which was the only treatment at the time.
The image has a good sentiment though. The Florida change is just more undermining of public schools to push private charter school enrollment. These bozos in our government voted in vouchers to directly subsidize the businesses they themselves are invested in.
Neither did Balatro
You joker
remember to spade and neuter your pets. o7
Good reminder to give that game another chunk of my life.
They don't have sled dogs in Florida.
soon they won’t have kids either
Feel bad joking about it but it sounds like a cutting cost program. Moving from No kids left behind to just no kids left
Do they use sled alligators?
No, alligators are lazy, ambush predators that stalk and move slowly. Crocodiles are more versatile, faster, and have more stamina for sledding.
Been a while. Was it a vaccine? I thought it was penicillin he was hauling.
Looked it up. We are both wrong. Apparently it was a specific antitoxin serum for diphtheria. Still not a vaccine but also not penicillin.
Makes sense. Unfortunately diptheria will be swelling soon
Antitoxin serum!? You gonna tell me what I should put in my kids bodies? Hell no! That's communisocialism
Brother bear don’t treat me like I can read. Communowhatever is for hippies.
It was actually several different sled dogs that made the trip and Togo did the longest and most difficult part. There's a movie about Togo on Disney+
Listen, smart arse, ive never been deathly ill in all my life, so what was the point of getting all these vaccines?
Checkmate, big-pharma bootlickers.
I’m not sure this is the case, but I like to imagine that the statue is polished from people petting it.
Pshhh. What do you mean? What u don't personally experience as being real isn't real.
Duh...