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In Russia, who won't do a thing about it, and if they do, they'll botch it in typical Russian fashion. They are easily the dumbest superpower.
Learn to hold your breath for the next few years.
They are easily the dumbest superpower.
I wouldn't say 'easily'. Competition is pretty tough in these days.
Ironically Asian powers are the only ones that seem to know what they’re doing these days.
America & European leaders have lost their damn minds
virus
Others claimed it was bacteria. What a shit show
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78544
"Accuse your enemies of that which you plan to do."
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.
That or they're wary of things that have been done to them, but I don't recall Russia ever being targeted by a bioweapon.
What a shit report, honestly. "It is said", "according to reports", "the Kyiv Independent reported", and my favorites "after breaking a test tube". Go notice, Lyudi Baikal "RadioFreeEurope", "RsdioLiberty". We are dicking doomed.
Plague is caused by a bacterium not a virus!
Yeah but how will people compare it to COVID when you report it like that?
scans for the .ml posters
Huh that's craaaazy lol.
Here we go again. How do you accidentally break something that you have to handle so gently. And you've handled so gently countless and countless times.
Did you ever watch the first Resident Evil movie? Someone just tossed a vial and said woopsies lol
Is that lab owned by the Zontik (зонтик) Corporation?
Yes. =)
There are cases of Human plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, in the United States now.
Sure, but they got Ivermectin
Actually, there always have been since introduction, especially in the american southwest. It was never eradicated here.
It's also extremely treatable in the 21st century
You're not kidding. There's a small small cave in California over by Mammoth that people said if you go into it you will get sick and die because it's filled mice and plague.
Early 2000s FPS and action movies were right all along. The Russians really do seem villainy..
This sounded like an accident
Suspected plague
I meant that part
Edit: And also the Ukraine war, poisoning journalists etc.
For all folks concerned of massive epidemic:
Also, to those concerned that this is a biological weapon lab:
Strange for someone working with that specific pathogen to not be innoculated prophylactically.
Indeed. This is exactly the kind of high-risk environment for which people are typically inoculated.
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
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...
yersinia pestis is a zoonotic disease, it never went away. its only the plague flea+black rat that was the problem in medieval times, i think it was combination of stray dogs+cats that helped it. its still in wild rodent populations.
I am pinning my hopes on a random Lemmy commentor.
I hate this timeline.
This random commentor happens to be a Russian microbiologist, so you're in pretty safe hands.
(No, I do not develop biological weapons, nor am I aware of any such facilities)