- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- canada@hexbear.net
- news@lemmy.world
this is likely to kill you
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In the backstory of the hit indie darling Disco Elysium a prion disease outbreak was one of the things that precipitated a widespread revolution against the existing social order, culminating in the world’s first and only short-lived communist state. The deplorable living conditions of the peasantry finally became unbearable with the influx of a devastating illness spread by means that those in power could act to prevent but chose not to and revolutionary armies formed
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To make matters worse, the province this comes from, New Brunswick, is essentially a feudal state owned by one family, the Irvings. They own the gas stations, media outlets, and just about everything else in that province
Wouldn’t be surprised if they were the ones pushing to cover this
I guess the world is really gonna end.
They’ve been covering it up for YEARS.
My baseless theory is that the Irvings had to do with the silencing of this issue in NB as those fuckers control almost everything there.
anybody else feel like the early stages of a widespread prion disease incident would be largely indistinguishable from the long-covid ravaged “society” we’ve already got
i think at first
prion diseases are a lot scarier than covid
For a lot of fun, google “covid” + “[virtually any disease]” in order to find out how covid is basically airborne any disease:
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Yea, the long incubation time of prions combined with the complete brain melting that the covid pandemic caused (both covid symptoms/long covid impacts and the societal impacts) and the tendency of capitalist governments to downplay/cover up these health problems (micro plastics/forever chemicals/covid/every other example I can’t think of off the top of my head) makes me dread the possibility of a widespread prion outbreak that would be ignored until way too late.
Ah fuck the solution is going to be using
AktionT4“MAID” tomurder“euthanize” these prion victims isn’t itI mean usually prion diseases go more like dormant -> active -> dead within a year, but apparently this one doesn’t so who knows
prions can incubate for decades
I didn’t need to know that
Don’t worry I will gladly sell you Dr. Barx’s Prion Cleanse with a nice wintergreen flavor.
That’s good news, I don’t want to be around in decades anyway.
