But almost certainly not garlic-megadose-resistant. (Not that a garlic megadose of 5g concentrate (50 cloves???) is useful without a resistant stomach.)
I always forget about that Yersinia. Probably a bad idea, since mice do explore the house where the ultrasound doesn't reach.
The one I think more about is the food-poisoning one native to north of the Arctic circle. [It grows perfectly fine at 34°F :( We run our refrigerator cold enough to stop it, but the refrigerator does occasionally freeze eggs and lettuce.]
I guess they've also got a really bad strain of MRSA (or whatever it's called) right now that's resistant to some medication...Ugh...I'm just waiting for "The Stand"'s scenario to come true..
I remember when SARS happened. A newscaster in our area actually said "For more information, read Stephen King's 'The Stand.'" Having just finished the book, I was, of course, scared shitless.
I don't even want to think about it happening with someone else. But really? Let's face it. It's the things we're told are going to kill us that don't. Check it out:
SARS: Stopped in something like three months. We were told to expect a minimum 60% mortality rate. Bird flu: is still around, but is NOT killing two out of three people (CDC, you lie). AIDS: In the eighties, it was considered unhealthy to even breathe the same air as an HIV+ patient. While the disease is incredibly tragic and has killed millions, let's face it: not everyone on the planet is dying from it. Clearly not as SUPERBUG!!! as was first thought. MRSA: Not fun to get, not fun to deal with, not at all pleasant to cure. But so far, also no SuperMegaUltraHugeZOMG!! outbreaks. THE MANY, MANY FOOD RECALLS OF THE PAST YEAR: Killed, what, somewhere around a dozen people? Not that I'm saying that's cool, or anything. But really - a dozen out of three hundred million really isn't much. More people die every year from being struck by lightning, for the love of Pete.
So yeah - until they prove there *is* a pandemic, I really can't be buggered. Something's going to kill me sooner or later anyway, why worry about it so damn much? Wasn't it Shakespeare's Julius Caesar who said a wise man dies only once, but a fool dies a thousand times? (Or something like that?)
I think it was a brave man dying once and a coward dying a thousand times but I could be wrong.
The difference between plague and all those other diseases is that it has a proven track record. I'm not really worried about it, but if I had to pick a disease to be the candidate to kill us I'll pick the candidate with the benefit of experience!
Actually, bird flu was responsible for thousands of deaths in 1918. I think it might have been something like a quarter of a million. (Which, when you consider the global population was about a third its current size, was quite a few people.) There was another outbreak . . . I forget when . . . that also killed a bunch of people. It has a track record.
And then there's this guy. He hasn't been laid in three thousand years and he can drive you insane just by *looking* at you. Now if you want something to worry about . . .
Aww, but lookit him in his eyeliner and mandress! Don't you want to just drag him into your room and never leave? (Or . . . is that just me?)
Incidentally, that's an invention of the anime. It's mentioned a couple of times in the manga, but only a couple. (And I've been told the manga is better anyway . . . unless you like Pharaoh!Atem, in which case the anime is worth it just to see him actually *moving* in the eyeliner and mandress . . . )
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Date: 2008-01-15 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 05:15 pm (UTC)I always forget about that Yersinia. Probably a bad idea, since mice do explore the house where the ultrasound doesn't reach.
The one I think more about is the food-poisoning one native to north of the Arctic circle. [It grows perfectly fine at 34°F :( We run our refrigerator cold enough to stop it, but the refrigerator does occasionally freeze eggs and lettuce.]
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Date: 2008-01-15 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-15 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 05:36 am (UTC)I don't even want to think about it happening with someone else. But really? Let's face it. It's the things we're told are going to kill us that don't. Check it out:
SARS: Stopped in something like three months. We were told to expect a minimum 60% mortality rate.
Bird flu: is still around, but is NOT killing two out of three people (CDC, you lie).
AIDS: In the eighties, it was considered unhealthy to even breathe the same air as an HIV+ patient. While the disease is incredibly tragic and has killed millions, let's face it: not everyone on the planet is dying from it. Clearly not as SUPERBUG!!! as was first thought.
MRSA: Not fun to get, not fun to deal with, not at all pleasant to cure. But so far, also no SuperMegaUltraHugeZOMG!! outbreaks.
THE MANY, MANY FOOD RECALLS OF THE PAST YEAR: Killed, what, somewhere around a dozen people? Not that I'm saying that's cool, or anything. But really - a dozen out of three hundred million really isn't much. More people die every year from being struck by lightning, for the love of Pete.
So yeah - until they prove there *is* a pandemic, I really can't be buggered. Something's going to kill me sooner or later anyway, why worry about it so damn much? Wasn't it Shakespeare's Julius Caesar who said a wise man dies only once, but a fool dies a thousand times? (Or something like that?)
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Date: 2008-01-16 02:31 pm (UTC)The difference between plague and all those other diseases is that it has a proven track record. I'm not really worried about it, but if I had to pick a disease to be the candidate to kill us I'll pick the candidate with the benefit of experience!
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Date: 2008-01-16 06:58 pm (UTC)And then there's this guy. He hasn't been laid in three thousand years and he can drive you insane just by *looking* at you. Now if you want something to worry about . . .
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Date: 2008-01-16 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 07:05 pm (UTC)Incidentally, that's an invention of the anime. It's mentioned a couple of times in the manga, but only a couple. (And I've been told the manga is better anyway . . . unless you like Pharaoh!Atem, in which case the anime is worth it just to see him actually *moving* in the eyeliner and mandress . . . )
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Date: 2008-01-16 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 07:33 pm (UTC)I'm sure someone else out there loves him in the mandress . . .
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Date: 2008-01-15 10:08 pm (UTC)*This is, of course, me being sarcastic.
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Date: 2008-01-16 03:52 am (UTC)Still it's unnerving.