So when you test positive for covid you’re supposed to get a confirmation call from the CDC but I’ve noticed something about how they’re doing it. My brother, my parents, and I all tested positive. We all get our CDC calls. They’re required to make contact with you, so if you miss the call, they call again later. When I was contacted, I had to verify my info and be told I was confirmed positive. My brother and both of my parents got their CDC calls, it was roughly 10 seconds of silence and they get hung up on. They’re then marked off of as having been contacted and aren’t called again, despite not having to verify patient info or be told anything. Just silence.
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I had COVID last month, tested positive around November 21 and nobody called me at any point
If you go through Project Baseline, a global project that most pharmacies and pop-up testing sites use, you get your results via email and then a day or two later a representative from the CDC or (usually) whatever national agency you have will contact you if you are positive. If you go through something like a doctors office, your results will likely be sent to a local site and you will only be contacted by your local doctor.
So when you test positive for covid you’re supposed to get a confirmation call from the CDC but I’ve noticed something about how they’re doing it. My brother, my parents, and I all tested positive. We all get our CDC calls. They’re required to make contact with you, so if you miss the call, they call again later. When I was contacted, I had to verify my info and be told I was confirmed positive. My brother and both of my parents got their CDC calls, it was roughly 10 seconds of silence and they get hung up on. They’re then marked off of as having been contacted and aren’t called again, despite not having to verify patient info or be told anything. Just silence.
not to sound pseudosciencey but I feel like there’s real power in being too stubborn to die
Damn they’re going in hard lmao
Everyone in the comments like “well it’s a cultural thing tou wouldn’t understand :///” like YOU WERE THE ONES BITCHING ABOUT LOLLLLLLL
People wash raw chicken?? What the fuck.
I never heard about this before this round of discourse started and it’s so stupid
You’re supposed to wash and clean raw meat. This is such a gross argument.
Everyone including the CDC is telling you to stop
Don’t wash chicken
why would you wash chicken
it goes on heated metal. why the fuck would you wash it?
Goddamn people really don’t know shit fuck huh
Like just rinse it off under the tap or are y’all using soap?
These people are using soap.
I assumed by “washing” y’all meant “rinsing off” and I was like what’s the big deal in rinsing it I mean you do you BUT YALL ARE USING SOAP WHAT THE FUCK BITCH
There’s like. A ton of personifications. Including but not limited to the above:
Quarantine Man
The Taiwan CDC with a Disinfectant Gun
Hepatitis but a Boy Band
Syphilis with Gender (女) and other Bio Information
Varicella (chicken pox) and Herpes Zoster (shingles) as Children
The Plague, but Hot Lady (also with bio information)
Fuckboy Influenza
Measles, but Hot Guy
Lyme Disease with a Mech????
And, of course, COVID-19 in all their gender neutral glory.
There’s more but I hit the image limit. I’ve got a couple articles about them, too:
Let’s make this post even longer because I have even more images saved. Next up, we got:
Tsutsumagushi Disease
Chikungunya Fever!
MERS
Pertussis (whooping cough) with a horrifying (almost body horror) headpiece and flute
Dengue Fever, the image of which literally made me stop breathing for a moment when I first saw it
Japanese Encephalitis (as... idols, maybe?)
And Zika Virus (so pretty! and for what???)
And some higher res images of the ones from the video (Legionnaires’ Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Rubella). Unfortunately, I could not fit Rabies because of the image limit.
thinking about that WoW epidemic
i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.
he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.
a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.
it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.
weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it
The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.
Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.
The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.
They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.
ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.
However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.
Think about that.
The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?
And we can’t time travel.
Anonymous asked:
"I want to have this problem one day" - the day comes I work at CDC in the highly infectious diseases section. My ring cuts through the gloves and my hand. I'm now infected with ebola, HIV, and smallpox. Finally. I had this problem
You die 3 days later
But at least you’ve had that problem
- The suicide rate for people aged 10 to 24 increased by 56% between 2007 to 2017, according to new data from the CDC.
- For children aged 10 to 14, the suicide rate tripled between 2007 to 2017 after years of decline.
- Suicide had increased among millennials, but the data suggests Gen Z might be most at risk for mental illness.
Considering the number of death threats people give to each other because of fandom, shipping wars, and censorship, and the amount of cyber bullying that comes out of that, yes - that can play a large factor in suicide of people who are in fandoms.
Climate disasters are incoming/already happening, Cold War II is on the horizon, white nationalism is on the rise, advanced capitalism is collapsing in on itself, and the world is otherwise on fire but sure, it’s the fucking “shipping wars” that are driving the kids to suicide
I try to be nice, but someone’s gotta tell you to get a fucking grip. So. Get a fucking grip and move on from the 2007 livejournal comm mindset or whatever it is that’s got your brain rotting from the inside out.
SHIPPING WARS
So, people in italy have been sharing this image saying it's the chip layout for the chip in the covid vaccine
In reality, this is the circuit layout for a distortion pedal, like for a guitar. Nice of the shadow government to make sure the covid vaccine can fucking shred.
bruh it literally says bass, treble, footswitch, volume. even if you don’t have electronics knowledge how would you miss that
Joke answer: they're Italian
Real answer: "you think the shadow government would just name the diagram shit like "estrogen dispersal trigger"? No they're gonna write it in code."
Reblog if your estrogen’s code name is treble