Its a disease of filth in close spaces. Don't breath dry rat poop "freckles" and you'll be fine.
Heck, New York is 5 floating islands held together by rats linking paws like "Hands Across America" and there hasn't been an outbreak there...like never.
Who takes these cruise ships? They’re like an enclosed room where everyone exits with explosive diarrhea or engages in cage fighting matches uploaded to TikTok. Not to mention the cruise ship ports are an environmental disaster throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Was gifted one. Within 3 days I was trying to bribe the staff to let me off. I HATED IT! Sure. I'll spend $6,000 to go be locked in a floating gambler/glutton insane asylum for 8 days! SHURE! 🙄😝
I'm sure it was lovely in the old days when only civilized and well off people went. But now? ... Yah, I'll pass. I don't gamble, don't drink. Don't eat all that much. And I can't bring my firearms on board. So .. yeah ...no.
Your opinion is shockingly hostile given the opportunity to be locked in a filth locker for a week and witness midnight buffet fights and experience competing boomboxes on the pool deck, while competing with the rest of humanity for the last chicken wings.
I have to admit, I was pretty tempted by the first "50,000 Tons of Metal" cruise. And if one doesn't *know* about the environment ahead of time, the *idea* seems sound. Relax on a big boat, go see pretty things in pretty places, eat good food, and so forth.
It's just... it's *really* one of those things where the experience does *not* live up to the advertising.
Never sounded good to me--trapped on a boat with all these fat drunk people. Now they're all boostered up and crazy and probably sick. Floating diarrhea prisons with bad music.
Maybe all those people who get "lost at sea" on these things maybe are just trying to escape.
Thanks. When I went on the cruise I was gifted, I realized I had my 45 on me. oops. before I could go check into the cruise, I had to get creative. So I bought a box of Tampax, emptied most of it, and stuck the 45 in the box, covering the top of it with the dreaded "feminine products" most men won't touch. Just casually stuck in on the floor behind the drivers seat. Sure enough, came back and it was still safely stowed! Some things are too simple. LOL
Can go from Amsterdam all the way to the Black Sea by changing to the Danube. Best part is lots of stops to walk around and do your thing. They offer group day tours but I’m happier wandering on my oen
Some of these cruise ships are like floating Petri dishes. I know rats traveled the world hundreds of years ago by hopping aboard wooden ships, but this is ridiculous.
Was on a Greek Mediterranean cruise once in the early 90s. It was a bit rough. All the corners and hallways had Chinese food cartons on the floor ready to do your thing in. The ship eventually experienced a spectacular sinking some time after I was on it.
The key is to either book a true luxury cruise line, or if you're on a mainstream line, pay extra for the rooms, dining, and other amenities where hoi polloi don't (can't) go. Stay away from the ones that advertise the most on TV.
You don't want the mega-ships offering dirt-cheap cabins, and you don't want to eat at the buffet.
At the other extreme, some of these smaller "expeditionary" ships attract a certain moneyed, crunchy type for whom hygiene is optional.
When I heard about this new plague ship, I also immediately thought of the Other Rodent Plague and “cruise ships need more cats”. I doubt the Egyptians worshipped them for their yarn spooling skills. Only issue would be: must provision sufficient litter at sea.
I’m crying reading the comments. I’ve heard the only good cruise is a repositioning one. They’re long but the ship is basically empty. No people and long days on the ocean sounds appealing
that is a good point. there are rat infestations everywhere all over the world and people are dying from filth all over the world. I wonder what outfits people will come up with this time? I remember a man looking like he worked in the Wuhan lab at the now defunct RiteAid. He shoved an elderly man who was confused by the line safety protocols. I knew then we were completely f'd as a society
I've read that there are about 7 times as many rats as people in New York City. I find that just incredible, as I can't remember seeing a wild rat in my entire life. I've lived in a couple places with mouse infestations, though.
I wish they would as well, but destroying whatever is left of their credibility in real time also works. Eventually, most sane people will start realizing that perhaps the corporate media's prophecies of doom are a tad overblown.
I have never been on there, but my buddy sent me a link with freaked out libs demanding we all wear masks again. So I scrolled through it. Its truly amazing how neurotic they are. One post after another trying to out do each other in hysteria.
No AI necessary, the libtards are all natural. It's notable that the EU, UK, and Australia are all moving towards making it the only social media kids under 18 are allowed to access though. So it's definitely an op, just a much older variety.
This is just so sad and sick. All three of my kids are autistic, and when they were adults and we only had the two boys still at home we removed processed food/fast food from our household/diets. Their emotional and mental health improved so dramatically! I’ll never encourage crap food again. They were able to stop the horrible medications that they gave to them all those years. So much happier now. It saddens me how much our food damages them neurologically, so Hotez is a disgusting specimen of a doctor if he doesn’t know that. His poor daughter.
Oh Ryan, what a hilarious comparison. I am an optimist so I tend to believe most will "just say no" if the Hotez cult tries it again. Once bitten, twice shy.
Please tell her she has my utmost respect but I shake my head too. I still bless that terrifying big fat epidural needle for its magic. I spent the rest of my labor as jolly as anyone could be with all the other laboring women screaming up and down the hallway. The nurses kept asking me why I hadn't been screaming before that, myself, but when my doctor said cheerfully it was gonna be another six hours or so I told him it was time for the anesthetist to pay me a visit. Just as I'm grateful for indoor plumbing, I approve of sensible and appropriate pain relief too.
Fifty or so years ago I asked my close friend if labor was as horrible as the movies and novels portrayed and she said it was like really bad gas pains, and I could later confirm she nailed it pretty well--especially since I've had experience of really bad gas pains from time to time for most of my life. I think we all know they can bend you over in agony. Same principle--internal muscles contracting quite unpleasantly.
Understanding that an epidural is merely novocaine and has negligible systemic effects beyond that spinal block region made me quite enthusiastic for it at the right time.
What actually happened was that the idiot Dutch couple who were the first fatalities had gone birdwatching in a landfill before the ship left Argentina.
Well, the update indicates it might've been touring in Patagonia which was experiencing an outbreak at the time.
People do not understand that nature is not our friend, and I suspect few enthusiasts of the outdoors take simple prophylactic measures very seriously. If you're going to wander around in pathogen paradise, perhaps taking Vitamin C at preventative levels would be a good idea. And certainly if you start to feel peaky...
But they don't ensure that their little first-aid kits--if they carry them--are sensibly stocked.
Ever read any of Richard Preston's books? Seems to me if people would refrain from messing around in bat caves, not eat bush meat (yuck), and don't mess around with monkeys, we'd all be a lot better off!
There are deer mice in my area. I had an invasion of them a couple years ago, trapping one or two every night. Couldn't figure out how the little twerps were getting into my house, and I finally had to call an exterminator. I hear reports about one or two people getting sick every year in this 4-county area, but I never did! The pest control company treated it very casually... The guys who came out said the disease around here is "mild". (Seems to me they'd know more about it than the people who push fearporn in the news.)
I am surprised people from New Mexico aren't the poster children for this activity. (I live here so it's okay for me to amuse myself at their expense.)
I ain't no expert but I don't think people build up tolerances to hantaviruses. They kill you too quickly. Here in the US in the "four corners" area of the Southwest there are a handful of deaths every year, mostly in places like Navaho communities, although Gene Hackman's wife died of hantavirus in their lovely home whose outbuildings were later found to be infested with rodent droppings etc. In dry climates dust forms quickly from them nasty little pellets.
While Gene Hackman's wife died from hantavirus, it's not an indicator of a dirty house. In the dusty south west, the dry rat sh1t can get swept up into the wind. But that doesn't mean all rats have the disease.
But Darwin Award still in play. When you go exploring, expect to find the unexpected and that it won't be pleasant.
And, kids--summer's approaching. I hear tick season is ferocious this year. My own handy hint: Grease up well before hiking. Make yourself harder to bite. Carry a squeeze bottle of dishwashing soap or similar. You find one o' them little fuckers already burrowing in--suffocate it. Soap works on all bugs. Clogs up their respiratory organs. Cleans the bitten area while it's killing the biter.
Dr. Bronner's soap is a great product. Excellent too (since it's a castile soap) if any in the household--God forbid--get lice. (No need for anything special. If it's a really bad infestation use a straight vinegar rinse too [with caution around eyes etc.])
Dr. Bronner's has a Siberian Fir & Spruce scented SalSuds Cleaner might be good for the really stubborn infestations. Haven't tried it for gardening myself yet for that.
Well, see that update. And as I further read, the cruise was specifically a naturalists' adventure; those retirees were naturalisming as hard as they could. (No! Not that kind of naturalisming!)
This is like all the dolts who think climbing Everest is a fabulous way to spend one's extra money too. Nature more often has a terrible rather than a tender beauty.
I'm the one waving cheerfully from shore, making sure the ducks don't steal the sandwiches while the rest of 'em are kayaking. I'm the one admiring the beautiful snow from the big windows in the lodge and drinking my hot hot cocoa while the rest of 'em are using whatever expensive equipment they like to slide down the slopes.
I'm also the one transplanting that pretty plant in my garden and realizing too late what it was, but I had plenty of vinegar to wash my hands and forearms with so I averted imminent disaster.
One of mine regularly brings a mouse up from our finished basement, (not sure how they get in…) and it’s always alive! She drops it at my feet as if expecting pay. Then she chases the poor little thing around until it’s exhausted or injured. I’ve got a system where I trap it under a shallow clear plastic tub and I use a thin chalkboard that is a bit wider to slide underneath it, then my son releases it outside, injured sometimes. We live in the suburbs so we aren’t rural. I often wonder if it’s healthy or OK to just let my cat eat it??? Can she get rabies from it? We have enough hairballs that get coughed up (the joys of a long haired cat,) so I’m not sure I want to see the mouse parts be coughed up.
But if it were healthy for her diet I’d let her finish them off …
I've never heard of mice vectoring rabies. As for food value and safety... that mouse is likely just as good for her as a burger from McDonalds is for you. ;-)
Polymarket should have bets on which rare disease they'll try to scare us with next. "I've got $1000 on Chaga's disease!"
But seriously, my favorite thing about this is the quote from the "expert" about concern over the increase incidence of zoonotic transmission...hmmm, gain of function research from the very same experts often alters animal viruses to increase human susceptibility to their transmission. You can't make this stuff up.
Well, damn... I was seeing Chagas bugs around here a few years ago. (Gotta love living in the desert...) But, I don't think the ones in my area are carrying the parasite. At least, not yet. It is known to have spread through areas of California, though, and will eventually get to Nevada if it isn't already here.
Better get the newest vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna every six months just to be safe. Small risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, death, cancer, autoimmune disease with each shot, but so worth it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae ...Funny looking things. Also known as kissing bugs. They can carry a parasite that causes Chagas disease (referenced in the Wiki article). If an infected bug bites you, it can transmit the parasite. They can also pick up the parasite by biting an infected person. They've been known to have been spreading in California, and moving north and east as well.
"i know history is supposed to rhyme and all, but this just looks like plagiarism." - LMAO
I know but how many would fall for it AGAIN? I've developed a pretty low opinion of the vast majority of my species on their ability to question authority. A nasty cat had great VENN diagram about it LOL.
I see a shocking number of people wearing masks around these parts. And the literal meme of the obese woman in motorized chair with drink cup, wearing a mask.
Around here too. The fear porn got to them and they appear to be delusional now (if not always). They can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy. In their fantasy a mask actually stops aerosolized viral particles but in reality it just can't.
The cult is strong with our species.
Dr McDonald explained in Feb 2022 that masking at that point was a sign of mental illness.
They didn't sucker me in the first time, and it won't work again. Most people are not going to buy the "two weeks" to get it under control. We have a better chance of getting run over by a beer truck.
By which you mean "don't have any sexual relations with them" which one would have assumed no one need be told, and yet that micro-"outbreak" of Monkey Pox said otherwise.
They’ve got to get our attention and our sleeves rolled up again, somehow or another. These tanked Big pHARM-us stock prices aren’t going to raise all by themselves.
And what would we do without Peter Hotez, a guy who never met a vaccine he didn’t like, who has an autistic daughter, very likely from the fact that he never met a shot he didn’t like, being at the forefront, doing all he can to get us shook.
Welcome to the Hotez California. You can check out any time you like, but he’ll never let you leave. He craves the spotlight almost as
much a AF. (Not “as f*ck”, Anthony Fauci. Same thing, though…)
"to stop outbreaks, you generally need an exterminator, not an epidemiologist." 🐱 Meow!
Its a disease of filth in close spaces. Don't breath dry rat poop "freckles" and you'll be fine.
Heck, New York is 5 floating islands held together by rats linking paws like "Hands Across America" and there hasn't been an outbreak there...like never.
People are so stupid.
Who takes these cruise ships? They’re like an enclosed room where everyone exits with explosive diarrhea or engages in cage fighting matches uploaded to TikTok. Not to mention the cruise ship ports are an environmental disaster throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Was gifted one. Within 3 days I was trying to bribe the staff to let me off. I HATED IT! Sure. I'll spend $6,000 to go be locked in a floating gambler/glutton insane asylum for 8 days! SHURE! 🙄😝
I'm sure it was lovely in the old days when only civilized and well off people went. But now? ... Yah, I'll pass. I don't gamble, don't drink. Don't eat all that much. And I can't bring my firearms on board. So .. yeah ...no.
Your opinion is shockingly hostile given the opportunity to be locked in a filth locker for a week and witness midnight buffet fights and experience competing boomboxes on the pool deck, while competing with the rest of humanity for the last chicken wings.
🤣🤣🤣
I have to admit, I was pretty tempted by the first "50,000 Tons of Metal" cruise. And if one doesn't *know* about the environment ahead of time, the *idea* seems sound. Relax on a big boat, go see pretty things in pretty places, eat good food, and so forth.
It's just... it's *really* one of those things where the experience does *not* live up to the advertising.
Never sounded good to me--trapped on a boat with all these fat drunk people. Now they're all boostered up and crazy and probably sick. Floating diarrhea prisons with bad music.
Maybe all those people who get "lost at sea" on these things maybe are just trying to escape.
Thanks to Biden we will have screw-worm flies, all over the USA soon.
They've broken out of where they were cordoned off south of panama .
They lay eggs in wounds, the larvae feed on the host till mature.
They got past the cordon by laying eggs in millions of migrants walking through panama during the Bidenreich.
Thanks to Biden, the migrants were flown all over the USA.
First year, many will not find mates, those that do will lay 3000 eggs - which will have lots of mates handy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=screw-worm+flies+broken+cordon
🤮 One more reason to despise that giant, demented, POS!
LOLOLOL.
hahahaha
>>> "And I can't bring my firearms on board."
I got a kick out of that one.
Well met!
Thanks. When I went on the cruise I was gifted, I realized I had my 45 on me. oops. before I could go check into the cruise, I had to get creative. So I bought a box of Tampax, emptied most of it, and stuck the 45 in the box, covering the top of it with the dreaded "feminine products" most men won't touch. Just casually stuck in on the floor behind the drivers seat. Sure enough, came back and it was still safely stowed! Some things are too simple. LOL
Ingenious! Well done
That's why we went to Alaska, and I mostly stayed in the room. I still enjoyed myself.
with you on that.
You couldn't drag me onto one of those floating drunken fat people ships.
You won't find me on one. Id rather swim where I need to go in an infested ocean of sharks with freakin laser beams attached to their heads.
Even if they are... ill-tempered?
I’m only willing to do a euro river cruise where it’s a floating hotel but every day you get off.
Actually those look pretty cool. Like along the Rhine river
Can go from Amsterdam all the way to the Black Sea by changing to the Danube. Best part is lots of stops to walk around and do your thing. They offer group day tours but I’m happier wandering on my oen
Some of these cruise ships are like floating Petri dishes. I know rats traveled the world hundreds of years ago by hopping aboard wooden ships, but this is ridiculous.
Was on a Greek Mediterranean cruise once in the early 90s. It was a bit rough. All the corners and hallways had Chinese food cartons on the floor ready to do your thing in. The ship eventually experienced a spectacular sinking some time after I was on it.
Chinese food cartons on the floor to do what?
Rough seas cause nausea and sea sickness. The cartons were available to handle sea sickness vomiting as people moved around. 🤷♀️🤢
The key is to either book a true luxury cruise line, or if you're on a mainstream line, pay extra for the rooms, dining, and other amenities where hoi polloi don't (can't) go. Stay away from the ones that advertise the most on TV.
You don't want the mega-ships offering dirt-cheap cabins, and you don't want to eat at the buffet.
At the other extreme, some of these smaller "expeditionary" ships attract a certain moneyed, crunchy type for whom hygiene is optional.
a bunch of Greta Thunbergs?
When I heard about this new plague ship, I also immediately thought of the Other Rodent Plague and “cruise ships need more cats”. I doubt the Egyptians worshipped them for their yarn spooling skills. Only issue would be: must provision sufficient litter at sea.
@Art- this isn't a normal cruise line. This is a small, expedition line. Cozy, if you will. Hence the 'sexual contact' reference.
And these people paid anywhere from 11-17k per person for this experience!
A sucker born every minute
I’m crying reading the comments. I’ve heard the only good cruise is a repositioning one. They’re long but the ship is basically empty. No people and long days on the ocean sounds appealing
There is a case where the power failed and the sewage backed up.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/why-do-viral-outbreaks-happen-on
that is a good point. there are rat infestations everywhere all over the world and people are dying from filth all over the world. I wonder what outfits people will come up with this time? I remember a man looking like he worked in the Wuhan lab at the now defunct RiteAid. He shoved an elderly man who was confused by the line safety protocols. I knew then we were completely f'd as a society
Where there's people....there's rats.
so...are you saying the people are the rats? Maybe there is a reason the old gangster movies would say you dirty rat.
Ryan I think you are my favorite commenter on all of Substack.
There's just so much idiocracy out there, the material is endless.
If it wasn't for libtards id have nothing to say.
Mine too 🤣 Ryan was actually the VERY first person I replied to when I joined Substack. 😄 He will always hold a special place on my mantel. Lol
Bunch here from Jeff Childer's Substack:)
@Ryan- you never disappoint. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I'd keep an eye on Gracie Mansion.
The shots made them stupider.
There needs to be a laughing emoji and not just a heart. This comment is hilarious
😆😅😂🤣
Ask and ye shall receive.
I mean on substack as an option
I've read that there are about 7 times as many rats as people in New York City. I find that just incredible, as I can't remember seeing a wild rat in my entire life. I've lived in a couple places with mouse infestations, though.
I bet its a huge number. You have to remember the subway alone is 665 miles long and on average 200 ft deep. Plus all the sewer and drainage pipes.
Many of the subway routes before the 60's have been abandoned. There's more abandoned than active. So plenty of places for rats...gross
Funny at its best!! You’re a great commenteer. TY
Breathe, Ryan, breathe.
I'm sorry, Ryan, I expect better spelling from someone with your IQ. ❤️
Whoopsy-doosie
hahahaha! yup
Thanks to Biden we will have screw-worm flies, all over the USA soon.
They've broken out of where they were cordoned off south of panama .
They lay eggs in wounds, the larvae feed on the host till mature.
They got past the cordon by laying eggs in millions of migrants walking through panama during the Bidenreich.
Thanks to Biden, the migrants were flown all over the USA.
First year, many will not find mates, those that do will lay 3000 eggs - which will have lots of mates handy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=screw-worm+flies+broken+cordon
There's a rat in the kitchen...
I endorse the big glass of Shut The Hell Up.
The only way Hantavirus makes Moderna a must-buy, is if Fauci is involved; the man knows how to make money!
I wish they would as well, but destroying whatever is left of their credibility in real time also works. Eventually, most sane people will start realizing that perhaps the corporate media's prophecies of doom are a tad overblown.
Or alternatively Trini Lopez shaddapayaface..
Same!
Yeah, me too.
Hard pass.
I would rather give birth to triplets alone and unmedicated in a mold infested Motel 6 than do pandemic shit again.
Aliens and a new virus all in the same week. Yeah, right.
The hantavirus hobglobbin is a scam.
The end.
Ryan.... for you 👉🏽 that will never happen. So "funny funny" visual on just that part.
Me? heck yeah, I would pull the triplets right out of me, myself, while outside Motel 6.
jeeezus. I have not seen any picture of the UFOs (or aliens.... only illegal ones a plenty!)
I did see pictures of fuzzy things in the sky.
Get this: Hantavirus is SO rare, scientists "claim" they do not know enough about it.
Who needs tv for entertainment?
Lolol!
If you really want entertainment go on bluesky.
I have never been on there, but my buddy sent me a link with freaked out libs demanding we all wear masks again. So I scrolled through it. Its truly amazing how neurotic they are. One post after another trying to out do each other in hysteria.
And somehow they always link Trump to it.
I wish ivermectine cured TDS.
I think Blue sky is an AI psyop.
Hahaha.
I think bluesky is a place where White liberals essentially view non-whites as animals. Once you realise this, a whole lot of their beliefs make sense
They always have. All the way back to the founding of the party.
Yep. They didn't start the KKK by accident.
No AI necessary, the libtards are all natural. It's notable that the EU, UK, and Australia are all moving towards making it the only social media kids under 18 are allowed to access though. So it's definitely an op, just a much older variety.
They always link Trump to everything.
Pretty brave going on Bluesky! Did you have to shower afterwards?
It's definitely an experience that does not need to be repeated
You got me laughing with that one
"Aliens and a new virus all in the same week." Coincidence? I think not. Time we deal with these aliens once and for all!
Im pretty sure the only "greys" that have visited earth are Robert Reich, Hotez and Fauci.
Invasion of alien dwarves!
Hotez is a fucking bow tie wearing idiot. He raises my temperature to boiling.
Agree.
Hotez conceded on Joe Rogan “I’m not as cautious about my diet as I should be - I’m a junk foodoholic.”
Ok, Hotez, I don't plan on taking any advice from your dumpy ass.
Worse, I recall him telling Joe that he bonds with his autistic daughter over fast food burgers and fries. Not doing that poor girl any favors...
Like I said before, Hotez has to be the leading cause of vaginal dryness
This is just so sad and sick. All three of my kids are autistic, and when they were adults and we only had the two boys still at home we removed processed food/fast food from our household/diets. Their emotional and mental health improved so dramatically! I’ll never encourage crap food again. They were able to stop the horrible medications that they gave to them all those years. So much happier now. It saddens me how much our food damages them neurologically, so Hotez is a disgusting specimen of a doctor if he doesn’t know that. His poor daughter.
🙌 Me, too!
So now you're a birthing person. How contemporary.
Well played. Lolol.
Should I go get some "tuck-friendly" underwear at Target?!
I'd suggest you might want to go easy on the fertility drugs.
Oh Ryan, what a hilarious comparison. I am an optimist so I tend to believe most will "just say no" if the Hotez cult tries it again. Once bitten, twice shy.
Yeah. Down in Florida nobody cares this time. Even people who fell for it last time are like "who cares".
But the (mostly bat shit crazy crowd) is very up to date on "booster shots" and have no idea they've been "bitten"
My 92-year-old dad, who has a genius level IQ, gets every single "booster" shot. Dad told me I was just a nutcase with a computer.
My 91 year old Dad died recently. I think the afib got him. Totally from the shots.
Yeah. I'm simply not fucking doing it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🌞
Evidence #1 is that bow-tied clown Hotez trotted out to tell us how serious all this is.
That idiot should be exiled in the wilderness already.
NOOOOO, the wilderness is my sacred safe place. Send him to the middle of Iran.
Yeah. He'll fit in. He wants to mask everyone.
Better yet, Gaza.
Ewwww...my mind made me see that! Unfortunately, "emergency childbirth" will not go away. Thanks, 9th grade health class. Thanks a lot.
May I suggest those are equally bad scenarios?
Well it was my wife who kinda started the whole concept last night when we were joking about it with friends. I just added a little color
May I suggest your wife was exaggerating?
Though uncomplicated childbirth is not the torture porn Hollywood's been addicted to forever, there's a reason they call it "labor."
BTW. She was 5'4" and 110 lbs before she got pregnant with our twins and she pushed them out without an epidural or c section
Good for her!
Did the same about 30 years back.
Twins are something else, eh?
Please tell her she has my utmost respect but I shake my head too. I still bless that terrifying big fat epidural needle for its magic. I spent the rest of my labor as jolly as anyone could be with all the other laboring women screaming up and down the hallway. The nurses kept asking me why I hadn't been screaming before that, myself, but when my doctor said cheerfully it was gonna be another six hours or so I told him it was time for the anesthetist to pay me a visit. Just as I'm grateful for indoor plumbing, I approve of sensible and appropriate pain relief too.
I was all for both. But she was dead set on just doing it el naturale.
I think i was in more pain just watching the whole affair. I've never passed out in my life but I almost buckled that day.
did she threaten your life during labor?
That sums it up.
But the minute they both were in her arms I was the best husband in the world...
Of course. She was buzzed off a half bottle of wine
What condition were you in?
Well. I took a 2 hr nap this afternoon, if that's any indication...lol
supplied by you?
;))
as a woman who had over 24 hours of "back labor" with only the last two hours with a spinal block,
I can attest that it really hurts. a lot.
Fifty or so years ago I asked my close friend if labor was as horrible as the movies and novels portrayed and she said it was like really bad gas pains, and I could later confirm she nailed it pretty well--especially since I've had experience of really bad gas pains from time to time for most of my life. I think we all know they can bend you over in agony. Same principle--internal muscles contracting quite unpleasantly.
Understanding that an epidural is merely novocaine and has negligible systemic effects beyond that spinal block region made me quite enthusiastic for it at the right time.
I was apparently clenching essential muscles in reaction to the back labor. It was def worse than gas.
The epidural, when it finally happened, released my muscles and the baby and allowed the doctor to cut to fit a big baby.
What actually happened was that the idiot Dutch couple who were the first fatalities had gone birdwatching in a landfill before the ship left Argentina.
And WHO would let such stupidity go to waste?
"The Andes version". 😆
US has "deer mice" and many ppl die from that... maybe....
Who goes bird watching in a trash dump? Dutch people for sure
Well, the update indicates it might've been touring in Patagonia which was experiencing an outbreak at the time.
People do not understand that nature is not our friend, and I suspect few enthusiasts of the outdoors take simple prophylactic measures very seriously. If you're going to wander around in pathogen paradise, perhaps taking Vitamin C at preventative levels would be a good idea. And certainly if you start to feel peaky...
But they don't ensure that their little first-aid kits--if they carry them--are sensibly stocked.
Ever read any of Richard Preston's books? Seems to me if people would refrain from messing around in bat caves, not eat bush meat (yuck), and don't mess around with monkeys, we'd all be a lot better off!
Sure did. "The Hot Zone" was mighty grim.
And yes. The Horseshoe Theory is true. Scientists and certain African food habits meeting in a toxic embrace.
There are deer mice in my area. I had an invasion of them a couple years ago, trapping one or two every night. Couldn't figure out how the little twerps were getting into my house, and I finally had to call an exterminator. I hear reports about one or two people getting sick every year in this 4-county area, but I never did! The pest control company treated it very casually... The guys who came out said the disease around here is "mild". (Seems to me they'd know more about it than the people who push fearporn in the news.)
I am surprised people from New Mexico aren't the poster children for this activity. (I live here so it's okay for me to amuse myself at their expense.)
There are lots of Hantavirus variants, no unlike COVID.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/hantavirus-and-the-variants-a-light
Update:
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15803865/The-REAL-hantavirus-ground-zero-Birdwatching-Dutch-couple-DIDNT-catch-rat-virus-landfill-site-says-official-NEW-location-falls-spotlight.html
great article. So, it must be an immunity thing. People go around garbage dumps almost every day! Many cities are garbage dumps. 🥕🤢🙅🏽♂️🪢🧶🦇🍂🥔🍯⛓️🧹💉🚮
I ain't no expert but I don't think people build up tolerances to hantaviruses. They kill you too quickly. Here in the US in the "four corners" area of the Southwest there are a handful of deaths every year, mostly in places like Navaho communities, although Gene Hackman's wife died of hantavirus in their lovely home whose outbuildings were later found to be infested with rodent droppings etc. In dry climates dust forms quickly from them nasty little pellets.
I loved Gene Hackman. Such a marvelous filmography, and such an ignominious demise.
Agree 100%. Even in otherwise lousy movies he was irresistible to watch. Terrible end for him.
"Hoosiers" on right now! Perfect for crocheting along to on a gloomy chilly Saturday afternoon.
He was such a nice man
Yes, and her death didn't raise any fear porn, because the vaccine wasn't close enough to approval yet.
makes sense
Vaccine on the horizon or not, it wasn't a useful hook for WHO.
I hope they don't find any useful hooks.
While Gene Hackman's wife died from hantavirus, it's not an indicator of a dirty house. In the dusty south west, the dry rat sh1t can get swept up into the wind. But that doesn't mean all rats have the disease.
"Dust in the wind... all we are is 'dust in the wind.'" (we're not in Kansas anymore)
Did I say "house" or did I say "outbuildings?"
PS: Do we ask the cats in the barn to check seropositivity before killing the rats and mice?
So refreshing to read facts. Ty
Birding at a landfill sounds like a great way to win a Darwin Award.
See update.
But Darwin Award still in play. When you go exploring, expect to find the unexpected and that it won't be pleasant.
And, kids--summer's approaching. I hear tick season is ferocious this year. My own handy hint: Grease up well before hiking. Make yourself harder to bite. Carry a squeeze bottle of dishwashing soap or similar. You find one o' them little fuckers already burrowing in--suffocate it. Soap works on all bugs. Clogs up their respiratory organs. Cleans the bitten area while it's killing the biter.
Soap and detergents are a fantastic insecticide. Only problem is limited residual action.
I try a tablespoon of peppermint Dr. Bronner's in a quart spray bottle before moving on to the harder stuff if needed. Deadly to bugs, easy on plants.
Dr. Bronner's soap is a great product. Excellent too (since it's a castile soap) if any in the household--God forbid--get lice. (No need for anything special. If it's a really bad infestation use a straight vinegar rinse too [with caution around eyes etc.])
Dr. Bronner's has a Siberian Fir & Spruce scented SalSuds Cleaner might be good for the really stubborn infestations. Haven't tried it for gardening myself yet for that.
for those who have contact with the tick nymphs which don't carry Lyme but will burrow under your skin--peroxide finds them.
I'll try that. I have had Lyme for decades and don't want any more bites.
Sorry to hear that you've been afflicted with that awful thing.
Wow, thanks. What a mess
Unbelievable
See update.
It was wandering blissfully around amongst nature's teeming treasure store that might've been the cause.
I am still cringing at the idea of tourism at a landfill.
Well, see that update. And as I further read, the cruise was specifically a naturalists' adventure; those retirees were naturalisming as hard as they could. (No! Not that kind of naturalisming!)
This is like all the dolts who think climbing Everest is a fabulous way to spend one's extra money too. Nature more often has a terrible rather than a tender beauty.
Love it. The third example was a surprise hahaha
Quite a pithy comment.—terrible instead of tender. And I love the naturalizing as hard as they can.
I hike until the mosquitos come. That’s as hard as I naturalize. I spent most of my childhood in the woods and learned my lesson
I'm the one waving cheerfully from shore, making sure the ducks don't steal the sandwiches while the rest of 'em are kayaking. I'm the one admiring the beautiful snow from the big windows in the lodge and drinking my hot hot cocoa while the rest of 'em are using whatever expensive equipment they like to slide down the slopes.
I'm also the one transplanting that pretty plant in my garden and realizing too late what it was, but I had plenty of vinegar to wash my hands and forearms with so I averted imminent disaster.
Etc.
... the importance of having a mouser (cat) cannot be overstated. They provide a much higher ROI than shares in Moderna.
One of mine regularly brings a mouse up from our finished basement, (not sure how they get in…) and it’s always alive! She drops it at my feet as if expecting pay. Then she chases the poor little thing around until it’s exhausted or injured. I’ve got a system where I trap it under a shallow clear plastic tub and I use a thin chalkboard that is a bit wider to slide underneath it, then my son releases it outside, injured sometimes. We live in the suburbs so we aren’t rural. I often wonder if it’s healthy or OK to just let my cat eat it??? Can she get rabies from it? We have enough hairballs that get coughed up (the joys of a long haired cat,) so I’m not sure I want to see the mouse parts be coughed up.
But if it were healthy for her diet I’d let her finish them off …
I've never heard of mice vectoring rabies. As for food value and safety... that mouse is likely just as good for her as a burger from McDonalds is for you. ;-)
Just as long as you give kitty a regular dose of Ivermectin (ie, cattle wormer) to dispel any parasites like tapeworms, etc, it should be fine.
fresh protein
Yeah. We just moved into a house and the cats are constantly in the basement. Could be deer mice.
Excellent!
Another OBVIOUS CROCK OF SHIT, designed to retroactively dignify the Covid freakout and get more money for "pandemic preparedness."
More specifically a CROCK OF RAT SHIT.
Polymarket should have bets on which rare disease they'll try to scare us with next. "I've got $1000 on Chaga's disease!"
But seriously, my favorite thing about this is the quote from the "expert" about concern over the increase incidence of zoonotic transmission...hmmm, gain of function research from the very same experts often alters animal viruses to increase human susceptibility to their transmission. You can't make this stuff up.
Evolution at 'Warp Speed' it would seem.
The vaccine is already to go prior to the "accidental" release of the virus, all you need to do is get it and they'll let you go back to work.
Well, damn... I was seeing Chagas bugs around here a few years ago. (Gotta love living in the desert...) But, I don't think the ones in my area are carrying the parasite. At least, not yet. It is known to have spread through areas of California, though, and will eventually get to Nevada if it isn't already here.
Better get the newest vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna every six months just to be safe. Small risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, death, cancer, autoimmune disease with each shot, but so worth it!
Right-o, I'll be rushing right out to get it. Maybe they can combine it with Moderna's new mRNA flu jab, to make it even better!
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-moderna-flu-jab-has-a-comically
they need to reject all mRNA "vaccines" until there's much more proof of safety and efficacy.
chagas bugs? dare I ask?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae ...Funny looking things. Also known as kissing bugs. They can carry a parasite that causes Chagas disease (referenced in the Wiki article). If an infected bug bites you, it can transmit the parasite. They can also pick up the parasite by biting an infected person. They've been known to have been spreading in California, and moving north and east as well.
Thank you
As if Lyme isn’t enough
My bet is on Ewing’s tumor.
Or CranialRectumy
Time to short your Princess Cruise stocks (again). I bet WHO insiders already did.
"i know history is supposed to rhyme and all, but this just looks like plagiarism." - LMAO
I know but how many would fall for it AGAIN? I've developed a pretty low opinion of the vast majority of my species on their ability to question authority. A nasty cat had great VENN diagram about it LOL.
Anyone who got afflicted with TDS lacks the intelligence to fight hanta.
I see a shocking number of people wearing masks around these parts. And the literal meme of the obese woman in motorized chair with drink cup, wearing a mask.
Around here too. The fear porn got to them and they appear to be delusional now (if not always). They can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy. In their fantasy a mask actually stops aerosolized viral particles but in reality it just can't.
The cult is strong with our species.
Dr McDonald explained in Feb 2022 that masking at that point was a sign of mental illness.
https://markmcdonaldmd.substack.com/p/masks-mirror-mental-illness
And recently he has explained that these people are clinically nuts. They can't tell reality from fantasy.
https://markmcdonaldmd.substack.com/p/denial-of-reality
And that is why I go out of my way to prevent interaction with those types as much as possible.
The old ones are just nuts and the young ones usually display evidence that mask-wearing is a comorbidity of something far more serious.
Some have already fallen.
They didn't sucker me in the first time, and it won't work again. Most people are not going to buy the "two weeks" to get it under control. We have a better chance of getting run over by a beer truck.
Hmm… beer. I love beer!
I don't know about that "most people" part LOL.
I hope people don’t fall for it again.
So, those 17 Americans quarantining in a facility in Nebraska... that's voluntary, right?
...right?
Oh GAWD!!! Peter Hotez again?!?! I don't even think that he got new bow ties from his proceeds from the last pandemic.
Well, yeah... But he's CNN's favorite "expert" isn't he? I agree, it would have been nice not to have been subjected to his face again.
I'm starting to think Hotez himself is a result of a zoonotic spillover event.
Lmao! Classic
So what you're suggesting is don't eat a pangolin that had sex with a bat that bit a mouse with hantavirus. Got it!
And stay away from monkeys!
By which you mean "don't have any sexual relations with them" which one would have assumed no one need be told, and yet that micro-"outbreak" of Monkey Pox said otherwise.
They’ve got to get our attention and our sleeves rolled up again, somehow or another. These tanked Big pHARM-us stock prices aren’t going to raise all by themselves.
And what would we do without Peter Hotez, a guy who never met a vaccine he didn’t like, who has an autistic daughter, very likely from the fact that he never met a shot he didn’t like, being at the forefront, doing all he can to get us shook.
Welcome to the Hotez California. You can check out any time you like, but he’ll never let you leave. He craves the spotlight almost as
much a AF. (Not “as f*ck”, Anthony Fauci. Same thing, though…)
Autistic daughter. Hmmm 🤔
Excellent post!
"because it dignifies this nonsense."
Brilliant!