The 'Scott's Tots' of cold intros.
EfficientEffigy 32 points 3 days ago
lonefighter 22 points 3 days ago
I always felt bad for his character. He seemed like a chill if slightly dumb dude who just wants to make a paycheck and go home, and he was just around as someone to get lightly picked on and put down. I wished they would have done more character development with Kevin, I felt like there was potential there.
CrimeIsLegalNow 9 points 3 days ago
This is one of the reasons why everyone wants the embezzlement theory to be true
Pieisawesome 8 points 3 days ago
Embezzlement theory?
CrimeIsLegalNow 12 points 3 days ago
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LovableSidekick -4 points 3 days ago
Right, but where do you see "the plague"?
XiJinpingStanAccount 25 points 3 days ago
Stop being willfully obtuse. It's obviously about the major recent news event.
"Oh well what if they just coincidentally made a post about a russian biolab worker making a mistake at the same time as this massive international story being in the news?"
edgemaster72 1 point 3 days ago
Everybody's gonna get to know each other in the pot ICU
Airfried 13 points 3 days ago
Good to know Russian authorities treat this seriously and are cooperative. Remember Covid-19 and how information was very fuzzy for weeks when in broke out in late 2019? Probably not because it wasn't really reported on. Remember how China denies it came from the Wuhan lab and often even the city or China at all? Remember how that got completely out of control before it even left the country because authorities simply denied anything was going on?
I'm sort of relieved to hear about this incident and how it's being handled so far. They already tested people in the victim's close proximity and are monitoring them closely but all they found so far were minor cases of guess what? Covid-19! Also kudos for researching that shit in Siberia instead of a major global port city like Wuhan.
pewgar_seemsimandroid 5 points 2 days ago
im pretty sure wuhan is inland but im assuming it has an estuary running through it.
Earthwormjim91 27 points 3 days ago
Far more than that. We average just over 4 per year in Colorado alone. https://cdphe.colorado.gov/colorado-plague-data
72 total human cases from 2005-2021 in Colorado, 11 of those fatal. That's 4.23 cases per year. There have also been 431 animal cases in Colorado over the same period.
WHO reports ~600-750 cases of plague per year globally with 3% being pneumonic, 10% being septicemic, and the other 87% being bubonic.
It's why there are warnings to not pick up ground squirrels and prairie dogs in Colorado, especially dead ones.
Luckily, it's almost entirely bubonic plague, which is the most treatable form of plague.
The one the Russians accidentally released is pneumonic plague, which is the most severe form. Incubation period can be as short as just a few hours, and the early signs are the same as pretty much a minor cold but it rapidly intensifies and can lead to death within as little as a day from initial contraction. If not caught and treated within a few hours, it's nearly 100% fatal.
This one is a much, MUCH bigger deal. Pneumonic plague is terrifying.
turdas 8 points 3 days ago
Pneumonic plague is the exact same bacteria, just infecting the lungs instead of lymph nodes. It's less common because the bacteria doesn't aerosolize very easily so it's not easy to get it into your lungs.
It's also really not that big of a deal, because it's still not particularly contagious. It's not that uncommon either; there's been several outbreaks just in the past 20-30 years. It is of course a very serious disease but it's fairly easy to contain.
Photonic 4 points 3 days ago
The fact that she actually died from it is still a bit strange tbh. They must have known what she was working with and could have given her the proper antibiotic treatment right away. They probably have the antibiotics at her own facility exactly for contaminations like this, which she could have taken minutes after the exposure. But it still wasn’t enough… I don’t think we’re ever going to find out what happened.
Earthwormjim91 3 points 3 days ago
We probably will never truly know and they are denying anything is even happening.
There’s conflicting reports about what happened, and if it was even plague. One Russian report is that she contracted something in Thailand and then got sick when she was back in Russia. Another is that she accidentally broke a test tube with y. pestis cultures.
If it’s the latter, I’d imagine she hid the accident for fear of punishment until it was too late, and now the Russian government is covering it up.
CrimeIsLegalNow 1 point 3 days ago
There's always edge cases but yes it's very weird.
LovableSidekick 11 points 3 days ago
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skujcici7755 5 points 2 days ago
Wuhan centre of plague studies
skujcici7755 2 points 2 days ago
Who knows where the virus came from (narrator: they knew)
skujcici7755 3 points 2 days ago
Who knows. Maybe it came from the Mexico border.
bedwyr 2 points 3 days ago
Let's keep in mind the US found some smallpox vials in some philadelphia lab just sitting around during the last pandemic.
Maybe it was just one of the scientist's drug stash though idk. Would be a wicked safe way of storing them.
bedwyr -8 points 3 days ago
One of the original prventatives for smallpox, the type of variolation that reached Europe from Asia and Africa, was to crush old blisters into a powder, and sniff up a line of it.
Variolation is giving a small dose to allow the immune system time to get trained on it before it gets critical.
surewhynotlem 19 points 3 days ago
No idea what this is
prettybunnys 27 points 3 days ago
more specifically the pieces aren’t secured and some are leaning against something, unsecured.
So if one was brushed it wouldn’t be held in place and could roll and then touch one of the others making the big blue flash of everyone dies painfully
LovableSidekick 7 points 3 days ago
True, if by everybody you mean the people in the room.
bedwyr -3 points 3 days ago
Really? I though plutonium had to have a specific ignition process, at least for full fission. The first method I believe was to have explosives on five sides of it and detonate them all at the exact moment that imploded it somehow, I hear tell they do it different for the longest time now.
What is critical mass with plutonium? I think Uranium is like around 3 kilos.
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I always felt so bad for him in that scene. Worked so hard on the chili only to spill it across the ground. Really hits hard when he tries to scoop it back into the pot. I know it's all just a show, but damn it hit hard.
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