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[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 57 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

prions can incubate for decades

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Barx@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

Don't worry I will gladly sell you Dr. Barx's Prion Cleanse with a nice wintergreen flavor.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

That's good news, I don't want to be around in decades anyway.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

i think at first

prion diseases are a lot scarier than covid

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

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" to ~~murder~~ "euthanize" these prion victims isn't it

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago

I mean usually prion diseases go more like dormant -> active -> dead within a year, but apparently this one doesn't so who knows

[–] spacecorps_writer@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For a lot of fun, google "covid" + "[virtually any disease]" in order to find out how covid is basically airborne any disease:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047479/

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

No, feel like we're just getting started still. this-is-fine