Jonas Edward Salk (/sɔːlk/; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.
In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. It was there that he undertook a project to determine the number of different types of poliovirus, starting in 1948. For the next seven years, Salk devoted himself towards developing a vaccine against polio.
Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's success was first made public in April 1955, and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the University of Pittsburgh looked into patenting the vaccine but, since Salk's techniques were not novel, their patent attorney said "if there were any patentable novelty to be found in this phase it would lie within an extremely narrow scope and would be of doubtful value." An immediate rush to vaccinate began in both the United States and around the world. Many countries began polio immunization campaigns using Salk's vaccine, including Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium. By 1959, the Salk vaccine had reached about 90 countries. An attenuated live oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin, coming into commercial use in 1961. Less than 25 years after the release of Salk's vaccine, domestic transmission of polio had been completely eliminated in the United States.
In 1963, Salk founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, which is today a center for medical and scientific research. He continued to conduct research and publish books in his later years, focusing in his last years on the search for a vaccine against HIV. Salk also campaigned vigorously for mandatory vaccination throughout the rest of his life, calling the universal vaccination of children against disease a "moral commitment". Salk's personal papers are today stored in Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego.
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I just found the issue and fixed it today. I just assumed everyone here had stopped effort-posting :egg-dog:
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So a relative bought one of these Surface devices with Windows 10 and asked me to set it up for them (switch to Firefox, VLC, 7zip, etc.). That was the first time I was exposed to Windows in a long while and my god it's awful.
I had to trick it believing the Internet was unreachable during install just to avoid creating a Microsoft account.
Then there was a series of questions asking to confirm (I didn't) that I wanted to send audio inputs, writing inputs, GPS locations, search history, and programs running to Microsoft servers because that's apparently the default behaviour. What the fuck.
Then the initial setup was over but I was apparently in something called "S Mode", where only apps from the Windows Store can be installed. So I click on the (small and not very visible) option to disable that shit and it brings me to the Windows Store, where I have to install a software from it called "Disable S Mode". So I try to do that and it asks me to create... a Microsoft account, which this time is mandatory and once you do it, it applies to the whole system. So I did that with a mail from temp-mail.org.
Then I finally had to wipe out that Microsoft account being logged in and a ton of other spyware stuff with a privacy tool (w10privacy).
It's insane. The whole OS is inherently hostile towards the user's privacy - it's basically a gigantic spying tool.
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I love how my body literally rejects going to work as if it were a deadly pathogen. It tries to make me feel sick whenever I have to go, it's wild lol. Pretty sure these are panic attacks.
The job I have at the moment isn't even that bad. It's just I've become so accustomed to shitty jobs that are hell on Earth that I've developed some kind of weird pavlovian response. Real cool and healthy system we have here.
Word, I really feel this too. We need to listen to our bodies much more. We were not made to toil.
It pisses me off because I know if during my developing years I had been given interesting labour that suits me I wouldn't be this way. But nope, I had to do repetitive mundane shit that makes my ADHD brain have an existential crisis every time I do it.
There is a cake next to my name implying that I have been using this website for a year. That can’t possibly be right, so I will choose to ignore it.
Looking at the top post on /r/world news and I can’t believe Kim Jong Un ordered the people of the DPRK to starve to death. It’s in quotes so he must have said it.
That sub is like the press office of state department and CIA propaganda.
America still hanging on to their "win" of the space race. Biden has brought it up at least 2-3 times. hahaha
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