An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death
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Chicken of the cave!
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https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51N5u7HMbaL.AC_UF1000,1000_QL80.jpg
This one will keep you up at night, it was SO fucking interesting. It's basically a story about a crime fighter who goes in and solves really complex crimes...but all the crimes are weird diseases, like strange brain swelling diseases that are gonna kill a ton of people in the US, and the detective has to figure it out before a bunch of people die.
We have the technology to solve insane cases, but we are completely hamstrung by mentally deficient politicians like our current idiot and his party. And how we still prevailed despite their obstructions.
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I'm just one person wondering by it seems like bats are involved so often in stories like this.
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Speak for yourself. I'll slur all his disabilities any chance I get.
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This is a dumb framing. People want to stop climate change to protect themselves and their loved ones from having to live in an inhospitable hellscape and doom humanity to extinction, not because of an emotional connection to the actual planet.
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To me it's ridiculous that we have no reverence for our actual, objective God, the living Earth.
All the fairy tale imaginary sky daddies people kill other people over while actively desecrating our factual creator with abandon.
We're so weird.
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Genuine question, would calling him an idiot, or some other euphemism, be better? It all boils down to "ableist" if you consider it deeply. How do you insult an individual without insulting people like them?
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Given that he thinks HIV/AIDs is the result of Amyl Nitrate abuse already, he just has to say it official.
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A ton already are!
Most viruses, we don't even notice them... the really virulent ones cause few, if any symptoms.
We just generally don't worry about them, is all.
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A misanthrope that cares about "innocent" people? Seems fishy.
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I mean, yes? Are there jackasses, douchebags, and shitbirds out there I should be worried about offending?
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That's a generalisation.
Plenty of people have reverence for the natural world.
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The image link is to the cover of The Premonition by Michael Lewis.
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Certainly not plenty, given what's happening.
And I don't mean empty rhetorical reverence.
Reverence would mean having a zero to positive net environmental impact. Like the Native Americans. They weren't perfect or necessarily peaceful between one another, but they practiced reverence towards the natural world.
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I try to take care of those little beings as best I can
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In general, value statements are meaningless and a sign of an inability to be articulate and specific in what an issue is. It's kinda why ad hominems are considered fallacies. Trump is a giant piece of shit though and that's fine to say
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That's subjective as it depends on your definition of reverence and of plenty.
That said, it's a very good point you raised initially and I wholeheartedly agree that it's a bit weird.
I agree that the natural world is, for all intents and purposes, analogous to a god.
I also agree that everyone, particularly the most pious of us, seem determined to disregard this god.
Religion is the wrong word, but I do wish that there was more focus on building appreciation for the natural world.
I'm reminded of the "solar punk" movement. There's an instance slrpnk.net which collates some of these ideas.
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We should really stop eating bats.
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I haven't seen the r-slur used since the mid 2000s, and now suddenly it's everywhere in the past 2-3 weeks. Why are we back-pedaling on even the most basic decencies?
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It also depends on its mortality rate. The, article says 50 died but over 900 infected.
Still incredibly high, but initially it seemed like it was much higher. If enough asymptomatic, or non deadly people catch it and pass it on, it's still pandemicable, just less effective.
