Top Canadian scientist alleges in leaked emails he was barred from studying mystery brain illness
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Exclusive: Michael Coulthart’s claims emerge after New Brunswick closes its inquiry into disease affecting more than 200 people

this is likely to kill you

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    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

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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      4 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 [he/him]
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      4 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 [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      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/