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[–] 6 points 34 minutes ago

For those who need to know more:

Local media have reported that the institute has subsequently been locked down, with staff forced to sleep on the floor and on chairs. “They’ve been isolating everybody since Friday – more than 60 people,” one relative, Roman, told the news portal Siberia.Realities.

He said family members were allowed to drop off food at a checkpoint while tests were carried out inside the building. Similar quarantine restrictions have been placed on several other hospitals in and around the city.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk

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  • [–] 20 points 1 hour ago

    I think I've seen this before.

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  • [–] 2 points 23 minutes ago

    Every lie that is told incurs a debt to the truth. A debt that shall one day be repaid.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 minutes ago

    That was Ukraine though. I guess still USSR.

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  • 3.6 Roentgen PPM, not great, not terrible

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    @slampisko I get it!

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  • [+] -12 points 1 hour ago (7 children)

    Any information to the contrary, or is it just more propagandist hype?

    Russia is hiding all the plague victims? Seriously?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 hour ago (6 children)

    Mostly hype. Plague isn’t that virulent with modern precautions and antibiotics, and Russia’s response has been to swiftly quarantine hundreds of people. Plague occurs naturally on occasion, and is largely a known threat.

    Most of the hype has been speculation around this case being a bioweapon combined with distrust in Russian institutions generally.

    I’m not one to trust Russia generally, but I don’t see much evidence that this is more than a nothing burger blown out of proportion by growing anti-Russia sentiment due to their invasion of Ukraine.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    I think Ukraine itself is a symptom of a bigger contagion, virulent capitalist greed that will kill us all.

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  • [–] 1 point 53 minutes ago (1 child)

    I mean it is, but Russia was giving up its resources for pennies ever since the 90s, this framing is a bit weird.

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  • [–] -1 points 13 minutes ago

    I think if that was true then there'd be no adversarial relationship with Russia, like attention to Venezuela disappeared overnight with them folding to Trump.

    The Arctic thawing is opening up access to a vast trove of natural resources. The fabled Northwest Passage is about to finally become a reality. This is why Trump wants Canada and Greenland. There's only three nations, and Denmark has already folded.

    Russia has changed quite a bit since Putin took leadership, and for the better. Like it or not, it's why Russians like him.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 hour ago (2 children)