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.
people really do not understand what vaccines do
Yuh-huh! They give autism! /s
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.
Goddammit. Why do even the good dog stories have sad endings. Every damn time.
I actually didn’t know that, fuck our species
