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T-Virus time?
I look forward to conservatives fighting for their right to get bitten by zombies.
Sure. Let’s do this.
Time for some YEBID-26?
Hopefully it's contained, because if we get another pandemic conservatives are going to do everything in their power to make it kill as many people as possible.
I mean... Aren't the conservatives going to do that anyway?
They'll mostly be successful in killing their own voter base, which would ultimately turn out positively?
I think that it'd be pretty hard to describe a plague pandemic in any terms approaching "positively".
IDK an irradication of boomers, antivaxers, and conservatives would be approaching a positive outcome.
So just fuck the disabled and immunocompromised?
It's like eradication but also irradiation for some reason.
I’d like to know what the “live biological samples” were.
Earlier articles said it was Pneumonic Plague. Maybe the independent is taking a step back from that since there's nothing definitive, but it doesn't really matter right now (note that this position is different from saying it doesn't matter at all, or saying to not keep your ear to the ground).
If it's the plague then it's treatable with antibiotics, but not the first line ones, and it has to be treated quickly. As we all should know by now if it's a virus you can only treat the symptoms until there's a vaccine.
I'm hoping there is one, simply because the same thing will happen again.
The Left will follow instructions and survive, the Right will die in numbers large enough to affect elections
Ooo we haven’t had a pandemic in 6.5 years.
Uh, it hasn’t stopped.
We have dozens of ongoing pandemics. We haven't had a new and notable pandemic in 6.5 years. Just the same flus and colds and uhhh measles? And whooping cough and-
Those are all endemic at this point.
Pandemic is characterized by fast, unpredictable spread across many international regions.
Anti-Plague Research Institute
I bet I know what this mystery virus is
It’s like bills with titles that say the opposite of what they achieve.
Should be Pro-Plague Research Institute
NGL the news about this one is stressing me the fuck out for some reason. Maybe because its Russia and it came from a lab, so I'm immediately dooming this is like an antibiotic superweapon or some shit. I don't know, that's just needless anxiety right?
But also I can't trust the US government to take care of people and I can't trust the Russian government to tell the truth about this so I feel like shit is gonna hit the fan.
Welp… here it comes.
Everybody get ready to add a "Russian Plague" box to your bingo card.
Aw shit, here we go again…
So if Putin calls it the Anti-Plague Research Institute we can be pretty sure they're actively creating plagues right?
Wow. What’s Putin doing, manufacturing plague to deal with Ukraine?
Always has been.
The USSR from the Stalin era onwards had world-leading biological and chemical weapons programmes, largely due to having plenty of test subjects in the gulag system.
Please not again
I gotta say the moment the RUSSIANS start taking things like this seriously is usually quite late. So uuuuuuuh
Awesome
