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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net to c/doomer@hexbear.net

this is likely to kill you

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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago

anybody else feel like the early stages of a widespread prion disease incident would be largely indistinguishable from the long-covid ravaged "society" we've already got

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

prions can incubate for decades

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

I didn't need to know that deeper-sadness

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Don't worry I will gladly sell you Dr. Barx's Prion Cleanse with a nice wintergreen flavor.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

That's good news, I don't want to be around in decades anyway.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

i think at first

prion diseases are a lot scarier than covid

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Yea, the long incubation time of prions combined with the complete brain melting that the covid pandemic caused (both covid symptoms/long covid impacts and the societal impacts) and the tendency of capitalist governments to downplay/cover up these health problems (micro plastics/forever chemicals/covid/every other example I can't think of off the top of my head) makes me dread the possibility of a widespread prion outbreak that would be ignored until way too late.

Ah fuck the solution is going to be using ~~AktionT4~~ "MAID" to ~~murder~~ "euthanize" these prion victims isn't it

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

I mean usually prion diseases go more like dormant -> active -> dead within a year, but apparently this one doesn't so who knows

[-] spacecorps_writer@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

For a lot of fun, google "covid" + "[virtually any disease]" in order to find out how covid is basically airborne any disease:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047479/

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

No, feel like we're just getting started still. this-is-fine

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago

To make matters worse, the province this comes from, New Brunswick, is essentially a feudal state owned by one family, the Irvings. They own the gas stations, media outlets, and just about everything else in that province

Wouldn't be surprised if they were the ones pushing to cover this

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

I never heard of the Irvings so I googled. I found an article - "The Irvings, Canada’s robber barons" - but the scrollbar was suspiciously small. Sure enough when I scrolled down far enough - I reached the paywall. I fucking hate that.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago

God damn North America is a fucking Petri dish

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago
[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Feels like it's what he's doing, is this plague number 2 or 3? Bird flu in the US too

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

That's in the bible!

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

I stg I hate this fucking continent.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In the backstory of the hit indie darling Disco Elysium a prion disease outbreak was one of the things that precipitated a widespread revolution against the existing social order, culminating in the world's first and only short-lived communist state. The deplorable living conditions of the peasantry finally became unbearable with the influx of a devastating illness spread by means that those in power could act to prevent but chose not to and revolutionary armies formed lt-dbyf-dubois lt-kitsuragi

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

i also enjoy fiction

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

My baseless theory is that the Irvings had to do with the silencing of this issue in NB as those fuckers control almost everything there.

[-] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

They've been covering it up for YEARS.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago
[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I guess the world is really gonna end.

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