I got to be the 666th updoot, hail Satan!
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.
It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.
Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?
There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.
Both wrong. The disease lab itself is infectious.
We used to have a pizzeria, a Mongolian grill, a bakery and a key and shoe repair shop in this town. Now - boom - everything's a disease lab.
Wrong again. This person is a vet and has encountered a cryptid which is the source of all infectious disease, which takes the form of a Labrador.
Infectious with diseases you ask? NO! Infectious with laughter and positive energy.
I used to work at a botanical lab, but after it got infected, it turned into a disease lab too. I hope we managed to isolate it in time.
This made me think of the Altered Carbon books, where some people intentionally get diseases for fun.
I'm currently re-reading the Altered Carbon books! I liked the series, some of the ideas were actually better, but I like noticing the differences too. The cartoon spin-off was hot garbage though.
I really enjoyed the show. Wish it got more seasons. I watched it long before reading the books. Yeah, I think the hotel as "poe" in the show was better than in the books.
I can’t recall the name but I recall a European movie (I saw it on cable television) where celebrities sell their skin to be grown in labs to be sold as meat for people to eat. The main character would go around finding sick celebrities, stealing their DNA and infecting themselves with the same illness.
The Culture series did it first 😉
You think all those flu variants make themselves? Do your own research.
This is 100% something I would say as a joke in a message on a dating app lol...
Would probably need to add a delayed "lol" or something just so its clear
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lol
He said 'clear' not 'klear'
" I'm against them, but I have to pay rent."
Allowing people to work for 11 hours is an infectious disease by itself.
I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).
Who is this "Father of medicine"?
I would like to learn more
It's probably more accurate to refer to him as the father of modern surgery, but I was thinking of William Harsted, who - alongside many other innovations (such as championing anesthetics and sterile surgical environments, both of which are alarmingly recent inventions) - created the residency system that's still used for training hospital staff today.
He demanded insane hours of his staff, which he was easily able to handle himself due to his cocaine habit, and which have been kept to this day (a law was passed attempting to cap it at 80 hours a week, but it's widely ignored) because studies show that shortening medical shifts results in worse patient outcomes.
It turns out minimizing shift changes is critical - the doctors/nurses who've been observing the patient are more aware of what's going on and can spot any changes in behavior or subtle warning signs of danger, whereas their replacements can only go by what's on a patient's medical chart and what they're told during handover.
I look forward to my 12.5 hour shift later this week..... With a full week of normal working days before and after.
Keep up the status quo my friend.
Why not look forward to a normal working day with normal working days before and after?
You can't fight them without making them. It's a key step in the process be it for gain of function research, attenuated variants or antibody research. Unless you're researching tuberculosis these things don't live very long so you always need to create more.
Disease factory, isn't that just a Texan elementary school?
There should be an infectious ease lab, develop some ease that spreads like plague
everyone who took time off during the pandemic and introverted
Well that wasn't my family. We're introverted but we worked way more than ever thru covid. We funded some major home repairs.
Average Wuhan resident be like:
Just say you make bat soup. Don't try to make it sound fancy.
A little of both
Always has been. When they started this kind of research they knew diseases they were weaponizing could get out and they determined it was an acceptable risk.
The elite are determined to do the "good work" of depopulating the planet and they don't really care about the methods.
Every time the Cancer Council gets mentioned
Remember when the world learned about gain of function research?
Clocking in for my shift at the ol disease factory. The scabbed, tumour-riddled lab rat who uses his teeth to bite down on my punch card shrugs and says “Eh… it’s a livin’”
Goddam, I remember this from the Flintstones, but I think it was a beaver.
Edit: nope, it was a croc that was the punch card puncher, the beavers were the stoplights.