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What disease scares you the most?
Posted on 4/26/21 at 9:02 am
Posted on 4/26/21 at 9:02 am
Though we have a cure for it today, bubonic plague scares me more than any other disease.
Imagine contracting bubonic plague in 17th century Europe. You would be left to die shortly after it was known you were infected, locked in your house by the local government's orders. Buboes would form all over your body, so painful that you couldn't even move. You would cough up blood and become delirious. If you were lucky you would fall into a coma before death. Unless you managed to survive- and those odds were very low- you would be consumed by extreme pain for less than a week until you were killed.
Imagine contracting bubonic plague in 17th century Europe. You would be left to die shortly after it was known you were infected, locked in your house by the local government's orders. Buboes would form all over your body, so painful that you couldn't even move. You would cough up blood and become delirious. If you were lucky you would fall into a coma before death. Unless you managed to survive- and those odds were very low- you would be consumed by extreme pain for less than a week until you were killed.
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Posted on 4/26/21 at 9:29 am to starkvingrad
Alzheimer’s
Posted on 4/26/21 at 10:24 am to AllbyMyRelf
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Your body just quits on you because basically your brain can't communicate with your muscles anymore. It's like slow paralysis and there's nothing your can do about it.
Your body just quits on you because basically your brain can't communicate with your muscles anymore. It's like slow paralysis and there's nothing your can do about it.
Posted on 4/26/21 at 10:33 am to starkvingrad
The assorted hemorrhagic fevers seem like a particularly unpleasant way to go and they pop back up on a regular basis.
Posted on 4/26/21 at 11:10 am to FlatwoodsForester
A guy from my hometown was diagnosed with both ALS and Alzheimer’s.
Posted on 4/26/21 at 1:36 pm to starkvingrad
liberalism
Posted on 4/26/21 at 4:07 pm to starkvingrad
Stupidity
I swear we have been dumbing down this country since the 80's
I swear we have been dumbing down this country since the 80's
Posted on 4/26/21 at 5:15 pm to starkvingrad
Whatever Harry Rex has terrifies me.
Posted on 4/26/21 at 5:28 pm to FlatwoodsForester
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ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
This because your mind is still intact, but you can't move your body parts. How terrible that must be.
Posted on 4/26/21 at 6:08 pm to kywildcatfanone
ALS
Alzheimer’s
Cancer
Alzheimer’s
Cancer
Posted on 4/26/21 at 7:16 pm to wartiger2004
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Whatever Harry Rex has terrifies me.
He's on the spectrum
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:02 am to starkvingrad
Hitting age 50 as a married man.
All of a sudden your wife is all about PIYB.
All of a sudden your wife is all about PIYB.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 8:29 am to wartiger2004
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Whatever Harry Rex has terrifies me.
Weapons-grade autism.
Posted on 4/27/21 at 6:27 pm to LewDawg
Can you turn him into the mysterious wmd’s of Iraq ala 2003?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 11:57 am to starkvingrad
A novel bird flu. I had thought that humanity could now ramp up a vaccine fast enough to limit deaths to a few hundred million. However, the COVID-19 example shows how fractured a world wide effort to stop it would be.
We would have to stop it, too, not just “flatten the curve.” A novel bird flu similar to 1918’s H1N1 makes COVID-19 seem like the sniffles. It attacks a society’s most important group, those 20-40, hardest.
I would compare its effect on the global economy to that of a world wide EMP. Societies would break down and the recovery would last decades with lasting permanent effects.
I now think 2-3 billion people would die from just the disease and lifeboat ethics would take over. Wars over resources would cause even more deaths and a depopulating nuclear war would most probably result if the US and its allies didn’t launch pre-emptive strikes on China and Russia.
We would have to stop it, too, not just “flatten the curve.” A novel bird flu similar to 1918’s H1N1 makes COVID-19 seem like the sniffles. It attacks a society’s most important group, those 20-40, hardest.
I would compare its effect on the global economy to that of a world wide EMP. Societies would break down and the recovery would last decades with lasting permanent effects.
I now think 2-3 billion people would die from just the disease and lifeboat ethics would take over. Wars over resources would cause even more deaths and a depopulating nuclear war would most probably result if the US and its allies didn’t launch pre-emptive strikes on China and Russia.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 12:22 pm to Kentucker
The Covid mRNA vaccines were developed in 2 hours. The rest of it was bureaucratic process. mRNA vaccines are being tested with influenza viruses.
This post was edited on 4/28/21 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 4/28/21 at 12:31 pm to starkvingrad
alcoholism
Posted on 4/28/21 at 12:32 pm to LewDawg
nice arse on that girl btw
Posted on 4/28/21 at 12:56 pm to AllbyMyRelf
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The rest of it was bureaucratic process.
It’s this factor that has caused me to change my mind about a global response to a novel bird flu. Flu vaccines can be readily made and mRNA vaccine stimulants may prove more reliable than traditional methods.
I have seen nothing in the global response to COVID-19 that encourages me to think 21st-century humans can deal with a novel bird flu effectively. The politicization of even a world wide public health threat amazes me. Humanity is hopelessly divided and we are poised to reap the effects from nature’s randomness.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 6:44 pm to Cheese Grits
quote:That's been going on since total school integration in the South in 1970. That particular act set in motion the gradual dumbing down of America. The powers that be have been scheming for a nation of happy idiots for a good long while now, and they damn near have it presently.
I swear we have been dumbing down this country since the 80's
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