They'll mostly be successful in killing their own voter base, which would ultimately turn out positively?

I’d like to know what the “live biological samples” were.

I mean... Aren't the conservatives going to do that anyway?

Well, this time around, MAGA conservatives have proven that they can indeed wear masks so maybe... naw. They'll come up with some reason not to again.

Maybe that's the accelerationists goal. Retreat in their bunkers, use ai to run things outside while humans die en masse, and then "rebuild society from its ashes".

You get what you voted for. The good old times!

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

Assuming of course, to be pessimistic, it hasn't been weaponized. Siberian Anti-Plague Research facility doesn't fill me with confidence, and you'd expect the hospital to have tried antibiotics, granted they may have been too late or used the wrong ones.

So if it’s easily treated, and I’m sure they knew this at the lab, why did the worker die?

Why is this comment buried here? It's literally the solution! Do people love the thrill of panicking? Internet, you so silly sometimes...

such fun times to be without spleen

No idea if true but people on reddit said it had to be treated within 24 hours of symptom onset.

A ton of people would easily try to wait it out and be too late to get meds.

I'm guessing they made an extra feisty version. Otherwise, break out the antibiotics, no need for death or massive quarantine..

I'm not sure, so I'm gonna wear my beak mask just to be safe.

And for people worried about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that "today it can be easily treated with antibiotics and the use of standard preventative measures."

Not if it is developed by Russians to be antibiotic resistant.

Why would they have a lab working on it if it was easily treatable by antibiotic? Why the worker died anyway and they introduced a quarantine?

It’s like bills with titles that say the opposite of what they achieve.

The articles says it's not a virus:

Darya Shipilova, an employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, was exposed to the bacteria after she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while she was collecting samples, the Kyiv Independent reported.

Why does it say virus in the title?

It's said to be yersina pestis there, the black death, but an airborne strain that causes septicimia within a day if not treated.

I would imagine that is from gain of function research they've been doing.

I am pinning my hopes on a random Lemmy commentor.

I hate this timeline.

Yeah, people seem to think the plague is extinct? There are yearly cases of plague in nearby Mongolia for example. It's also not usually as easy to spread compared to viruses like influensa. It's still a scary thing to think about, but nothing for us to worry about really...

looking at how people react in regards of vaccines, masks, and medical misinformation, I think even a common cold can be a successful bio-weapon

This would be the most stupid and inefficient biological weapon. Again, we have the vaccine AND the cure.

Erm, Actually. It's obvious they're still researching the Suppression and Sympto-Statis gene tech so they can sneak the plague into other countries without panic.

You casuals wouldn't understand. 😏 /s

I mean unless they are somehow trying to develop an antibiotic and vaccine resistant strain of the plague? If it were the case then it is almost 100% a bioweapon research at best under the guise of bioweapon security. But I don't know if this person is a bioweapon researcher or a public health researcher.

Strange for someone working with that specific pathogen to not be innoculated prophylactically.

Maybe they're making a potent cross-species variant by weaponising good ol' Russian boreal swamp debauchery.

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.

There are very legitimate reasons to be doing research like this. Every developed nation pretty much has labs like this.

However, that isn't to say none of these are attempting to make weapons. The issue is research for a weapon like this looks pretty much identical to the good kind of research. The only way to know the difference would be getting your hands on documents saying it's for a weapon.

Ah yes here we go again.

Something about this image gave me temporary Dyslexia.

Someone had written about viral pneumonia coming from wuhan china prior to 2019 too. I forget how they said that novel played out it was different than what happened otherwise. No writer could've forseen just how stupid we were becoming.

This is the literal plague, which is highly treatable with antibiotics, so we have to assume that they are researching ways to make plague more contagious and/or less treatable.

Anti Plague Research Institute

Anti Plague Research Institute

Anti Plague Research Institute

Anti Plague Research Institute

Red vs Blue brain rot on full display here. You managed to turn some news about a lab leak in Russia … about US Politics?

It's funny how often you see this mistake made in articles about diseases. Like, people think bacteria and viruses are the same sorta nasty so what's the big deal? FFS - the word 'antibiotics' ought to give them a clue that these things are treated very differently.

By all appearances, no.

Well looking through the list of symptoms, it makes you murderous and violent, you never seem to die a natural death, and all you want to do in life is destroy the brains of the woke.

...I guess they've already got it.

I will never understand the thought behind weaponizing diseases. They kill indiscriminately, even you, the developer or the president who orders it's release. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

His book The Demon in the Freezer is also really good and about small pox.

its the pneumonic plague, so not a virus, but Yersinia pestis, aka the black death.

The test is also unknown.

It's not a virus, and it's not unknown.

Best Randall Flagg ever!

That's a relief! It's a good thing that antibiotic resistance isn't a problem.

Yeah but how will people compare it to COVID when you report it like that?

My guess is yes, since she died. I'm pretty sure that it's pretty trivial to cure plague these days, just using antibiotics. Since she died, and there's a big quarantine, that suggests the possibility that they've been fucking with the bacteria and made it extra spicy. It's so obvious that governments will do this - just because - that Stephen King wrote the stand back in the 70s.

Does it really matter what the label is on the name of the institute that wipes out humanity? If the place has deadly viruses with the only protection stopping it from killing people that work there is a thin glass test tube, then it doesn't really matter what the intent was, the place was always designed to wipe out humanity.

You are right. It's a known bacteria. Read the article.

"No, we're going to recommend simple surgical masks, and then when those don't work, we're going to claim that no masks or filtration devices work at all."

"Mah freedom!"

You'd be safer keeping mouse traps on hand and have flea collars on your pets.

Throughout history, plague almost always has come in on a tide of rodents. Rats or mice. (and in the Western US, it's hosts are often Prairie Dogs..)

It's a bacteria and it's known.

they had accidental releases, or infections from BSL-4 labs before. anthrax, other plague, read up on it, its quite interesting.

It is a bacteria, and since this one likely is modified in a bioweapons, it will be practically immediately fatal and incurable.

Likely won't be a blip on the radar.

FYI the US averages seven cases of Plague a year. Usually happens in the western plains, Utah and Arizona and occasionally into northern California and Orgeon.

Often tied to those rural areas with prairie dog populations since the bacteria likes rodents and they can become carriers.

It's not the 1300's anymore and treatment is a few rounds of azithromycin or some other heavy-duty anti-biotic.

I'm sure his buddy Vlad will tell him that he has it under control and there's nothing to worry about.

Uh, it hasn’t stopped.

Actually, there always have been since introduction, especially in the american southwest. It was never eradicated here.

Source

Sure, but they got Ivermectin

No, because LLMs are all vaccinated.

climate change may be slowed or even reversed though.

I gotta get a bidet this time around

One of my personal "Rules of Life" is that people are most suspicious of behavior they are most likely to perform. Thieves always think people are stealing from them, cheaters always think someone is cheating on them, etc. They have to believe that, so they can keep performing the behavior, but blame it on others - you do it (even if they don't), so it's okay if I do it.

Trump lives by this code, he's always accusing people of stealing, cheating, etc., and then does it himself "in retaliation," when what he's really doing is just helping himself to whatever he wants.

biological*

I don't care if it's the first act of Henry the Fifth, that's a bit much.

COVID-2026

I so am. I loved it. Antisocial reclusiveness is my specialty.

Yes. =)

Big Pox walks in

They have a lab with that in Russia too. Oh and one in Georgia! Which has also had "incidents".

This sounded like an accident

They are easily the dumbest superpower.

I wouldn't say 'easily'. Competition is pretty tough in these days.

Eventually yes

Did you ever watch the first Resident Evil movie? Someone just tossed a vial and said woopsies lol

For the same reason that somebody can accidentally cut themselves with a knife.

Just say no to AI Slop