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"I work daily with some of the world's most infectious and fatal diseases. Reading internal reports and also stuff available on the internet (papers, new articles), I'm becoming extremely concerned we are massively unprepared for the next epidemic.
People imagine that any kind of epidemic that occurs today can be more or less mitigated through modern public health infrastructure, stocks of vaccines and antivirals, and basic quarantining measures.
The issue is that in modern, densely populated cities, a sufficiently advanced pathogen would be capable of infecting the vast majority of inhabitants in weeks, before any health measures could have an effect. The population density is enough that current quarantining techniques used in cases like smallpox would be completely ineffective. Antivirals have historically proven ineffective and hard to disseminate while our current vaccine stocks might not work at all.
Currently computer simulations indicate that a dangerous enough pathogen could effectively destroy a city like Los Angeles in a few months. "Destroyed" in the sense that emergency services are shut down, medical services are shut down, all economic output ceases and over 30-60% of the population is wiped out.
In short, a small nation-state or even well-funded terrorist organization could easily reduce the US to the state of a third world nation with. Yet no one except my colleagues seems to give a #.
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Patient typically presents with a blunted-affect, but when shown the image of a face (especially a smiling face with eyes wide open) the patient will become terrified and begin to violently sob/convulse
Fortunately, the viral infection clears up in a few weeks and symptoms disappear with patients returning to normal activity afterwards with the exception that they somewhat retain their fear of smiling faces for an indefinite period.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: natoshis
Patient typically presents with a blunted-affect, but when shown the image of a face (especially a smiling face with eyes wide open) the patient will become terrified and begin to violently sob/convulse
So this is how the world ends.
Fortunately, the viral infection clears up in a few weeks and symptoms disappear with patients returning to normal activity afterwards with the exception that they somewhat retain their fear of smiling faces for an indefinite period.
Phew good to know, and I’ll smile away everyone into submission.. win win
Cool LARP
>If certain dissidents are to be believed, a virus existed in October 2019 which had already been released
originally posted by: TrollMagnet
a reply to: MetalThunder
Sounds like a half baked attempt at an AIDs vaccine. You catch a cold with some HIV in it, and gain immunity like a vaccine. Except people in the HIV vaccine trials dont usually do so well.
It does sound like something some dumb ass playing around with diseases would come up with. They would have to be extremely stupid, but think they are super smart, and also extremely arrogant.
originally posted by: HawkeyeNation
So would an HIV test be successful in this case with someone who had Covid?
originally posted by: natoshis
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: natoshis
Patient typically presents with a blunted-affect, but when shown the image of a face (especially a smiling face with eyes wide open) the patient will become terrified and begin to violently sob/convulse
So this is how the world ends.
Fortunately, the viral infection clears up in a few weeks and symptoms disappear with patients returning to normal activity afterwards with the exception that they somewhat retain their fear of smiling faces for an indefinite period.
Phew good to know, and I’ll smile away everyone into submission.. win win
Cool LARP
That last part related to a virus called "Gerald's Fever", it was not the coronavirus like virus he was talking about but a different virus he was scared about because of how it could affect the brain and how it could cause people to self-mutilate and become petrified of smiling.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
Is he claiming a virus was designed to induce these effects? Because otherwise it sounds like the fishy claims we were expected to believe about Covid and all things going wrong with people’s health was because of Covid...
originally posted by: halfoldman
And strange how everyone forgets the CISM Military World Games held in Wuhan, October 2019.
This event featured participants from 109 countries.
en.wikipedia.org...
armedforcessports.defense.gov...
www.insidethegames.biz...
The other was a new recently discovered virus called "Gerald's Fever", which he mentioned because he found particularly horrifying the psychological aspect of how it can change a person and how people can start to self mutilate if infected with it.