Funny how my brain suddenly fears death, when I’ve been feeling kinda suicidal… but all the sudden, now my brain has decreed: “wait, fuck, actually death is bad, dont wanna die yet… aaaahhhh”
Can you imagine the horrors of SURVIVING an apocalypse… then you have no internet anymore cuz… um… you know… everyone is very DEAD.
I have a drug addiction… addicted to DOPAMINE…
My Photosynthesis¹ is turning Internet-Rays into the rare and legendary DOPAMINE
(¹Internet Light-Ray Photosynthesis --> Interaysynthesis?)
Like can you imagine doing things like gasps read books? …as entertainment in an apocalypse? Books? Stare at dead trees? The fuck?
(Speaking of books… I feel like physical books transmit too much viruses… DRM-Free Ebooks FTW!.. I mean woukd you even touch a book smeared with zombie blood/puke? ewww… sorry my germophobia is kicking in again)
Yes, because another lockdown is perfectly plausible. Also (at least on the cruise ship) it’s caused by airborne particles from rat droppings so I could get it just from someone else not doing due diligence in cleaning a building, or not being able to access all parts of it.
The actor Gene Hackman and his wife died from it. I can’t remember the details but it sounded like a brutal death. And the fact that they, who can probably afford cleaners for their fancy home, died from it? That’s bad news for us.
Unfortunately I live in a place where I’ve seen 1 rat about a year ago when it snows, and we get mice regularly.
All of that is not new though. Hantavirus has always been around. The common strains have <1% death rates. Andes strain is more deadly and looks to possibly have human to human transmission within a short time window, but there is no indication that it can spread quickly enough to cause a new pandemic. It has also been known since 1995. So as of now, I wouldn’t panic, even though the situation can certainly bring some traumatic memories back.
Gene Hackman did not die from it, only his wife did. He was not able to care for himself or know what happened due to advanced alzheimers disease and ended up dying due to sever heart disease within a week of her death. The variant on the cruise ship most likely wasnt the same since only 1 version of it is transferrable human to human and is even rarer. The cruise ship wasnt even the problem, they believe the couple who originally had it got it before the cruise and then showed symptoms only after the cruise began. It seems like they are taking it very seriously so I don’t really think theres a reason to worry about it, unless your actually one of the people on that ship.
The scariest part to me is the 30% mortality rate.