• OpenStars
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    544 days ago

    Both wrong. The disease lab itself is infectious.

    • apotheotic (she/her)
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      84 days ago

      Wrong again. This person is a vet and has encountered a cryptid which is the source of all infectious disease, which takes the form of a Labrador.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 days ago

      We used to have a pizzeria, a Mongolian grill, a bakery and a key and shoe repair shop in this town. Now - boom - everything’s a disease lab.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      44 days ago

      I used to work at a botanical lab, but after it got infected, it turned into a disease lab too. I hope we managed to isolate it in time.

    • @[email protected]
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      144 days ago

      I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s probably more accurate to refer to him as the father of modern surgery, but I was thinking of William Harsted, who - alongside many other innovations (such as championing anesthetics and sterile surgical environments, both of which are alarmingly recent inventions) - created the residency system that’s still used for training hospital staff today.

          He demanded insane hours of his staff, which he was easily able to handle himself due to his cocaine habit, and which have been kept to this day (a law was passed attempting to cap it at 80 hours a week, but it’s widely ignored) because studies show that shortening medical shifts results in worse patient outcomes.

          It turns out minimizing shift changes is critical - the doctors/nurses who’ve been observing the patient are more aware of what’s going on and can spot any changes in behavior or subtle warning signs of danger, whereas their replacements can only go by what’s on a patient’s medical chart and what they’re told during handover.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 days ago

      I look forward to my 12.5 hour shift later this week… With a full week of normal working days before and after.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 days ago

        Keep up the status quo my friend.

        Why not look forward to a normal working day with normal working days before and after?

  • @[email protected]
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    113 days ago

    It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 days ago

      It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.

      Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?

      • @[email protected]
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        33 days ago

        There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.

  • @[email protected]
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    53 days ago

    This made me think of the Altered Carbon books, where some people intentionally get diseases for fun.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 day ago

      I’m currently re-reading the Altered Carbon books! I liked the series, some of the ideas were actually better, but I like noticing the differences too. The cartoon spin-off was hot garbage though.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 day ago

        I really enjoyed the show. Wish it got more seasons. I watched it long before reading the books. Yeah, I think the hotel as “poe” in the show was better than in the books.

    • hopesdead
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      23 days ago

      I can’t recall the name but I recall a European movie (I saw it on cable television) where celebrities sell their skin to be grown in labs to be sold as meat for people to eat. The main character would go around finding sick celebrities, stealing their DNA and infecting themselves with the same illness.

  • @[email protected]
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    This is 100% something I would say as a joke in a message on a dating app lol…

    Would probably need to add a delayed “lol” or something just so its clear

  • FauxPseudo
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    54 days ago

    You can’t fight them without making them. It’s a key step in the process be it for gain of function research, attenuated variants or antibody research. Unless you’re researching tuberculosis these things don’t live very long so you always need to create more.

    • Match!!
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      34 days ago

      everyone who took time off during the pandemic and introverted

      • @[email protected]
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        14 days ago

        Well that wasn’t my family. We’re introverted but we worked way more than ever thru covid. We funded some major home repairs.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 days ago

      Always has been. When they started this kind of research they knew diseases they were weaponizing could get out and they determined it was an acceptable risk.

      The elite are determined to do the “good work” of depopulating the planet and they don’t really care about the methods.

  • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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    Clocking in for my shift at the ol disease factory. The scabbed, tumour-riddled lab rat who uses his teeth to bite down on my punch card Chris’s and says “Eh… it’s a livin’”

    • @[email protected]
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      Goddam, I remember this from the Flintstones, but I think it was a beaver.

      Edit: nope, it was a croc that was the punch card puncher, the beavers were the stoplights.