• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    The people who sell the lifestraws are helping to provide them to Gaza, hopefully they can get them in.

  • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    30 days ago

    One thing I don’t understand is, how can polio resurface after 24 years?

    I am tempted to think that it was intentionally released, but perhaps someone has a less evil explanation?

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      30 days ago

      There are two types of polio vaccine: inactivated polio virus (given by a shot) and oral polio virus (OPV). OPV is a lot easier to give in rural and impoverished areas, or areas where it may be difficult for healthcare workers to get access. However, because it’s given orally and because it contains a very weak but live form of polio virus, there’s the chance that the recipient (while immune themselves) may continue to replicate and carry the virus in their intestinal tract. They may then pass the virus in their feces.

      In an area with a functioning sewage system, this is generally a negligible risk. In an area where everyone is vaccinated and has a functioning immune system, this is generally a negligible risk. In an area where possibly not everyone is vaccinated, or where people’s bodies are starting to break down due to starvation, and where the sewage system has been deliberately blown up, this is almost inevitable.

      This is also intentional. In the concentration camps, a significant portion of the deaths were due to diseases that ripped through the camps, where the inmates were severely and deliberately malnourished, chronically overworked, had minimal protection from the elements, and were provided little hygiene or healthcare. The only difference with Gaza is that it’s a bigger camp, and instead of being overworked, the inmates are repeatedly forced to move from one area to another to another.

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        29 days ago

        The only difference with Gaza is that it’s a bigger camp, and instead of being overworked, the inmates are repeatedly forced to move from one area to another to another.

        The main difference is that the elected government of Gaza can stop what is happening at any time by releasing the hostages and surrendering.

        If you can stop what is happening by releasing the hostages and surrendering, then what is happening is not genocide, it is a military operation to rescue hostages and defeat those responsible for kidnapping them.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    30 days ago

    Well ABC if you had been reporting accurately and not shilling for Israel and silencing those who spoke out, maybe we could’ve helped avoid this?

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    30 days ago

    “The IDF does not aim to inflict damage to civilian infrastructure and strikes are conducted exclusively on the grounds of military necessity and in strict accordance with international law,” a spokesperson said.

    “The IDF most certainly does not use water, or any humanitarian resources, as a weapon of war.”

    It argued Hamas regularly hides militants and stockpiles in places such as water plants and wells.

    “The IDF is locating and destroying these terror infrastructures, which have been discovered, among other places, within and near the water facilities in question,” the spokesperson said.

    While not denying the damage and destruction to facilities across Gaza has been extensive, the IDF insisted it was working to allow repairs to be undertaken

    This is just evil incarnate.

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        30 days ago

        They never really did, just more people are aware their lies are tissue -paper thin. Not enough yet, and some that are aware are invested in the genocide.