Or don’t watch films where the sole attraction is cameos or bringing back actors from another film. You can have genuine surprises and not be spoiled, but you just have to avoid films hyped to death.

What Marvel did failed anyway. It wasn’t genuine surprise when they included all the villains in the trailers. It was an expectation at that point. So, whatever. And this is what “surprises” amount to in 2023: appearances of actors from better films (well the Raimi ones anyway, not the Webb ones).

Smallpox? No. Do basic research please.

It’s not 81%. It is 70% single dose. Adults =/= population.

“Crazy amount of funding.” Please quantify this, and then tell me how much has been spend on the road network in Seattle.

Not really. The weather is more extreme than Britain for example, yet in Britain most journeys are driven.

So that we have data on commute distances, here is a chart I found.