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So... Let's play a really sick game...
11 years ago
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As sick as I am, thinking about this kind of stuff, but here it is:
So the CDC bought 2 people here who have Ebola... yay. Even though they are quarantined in Georgia, well we all know that 'shit happens' and being here on our shores makes it 1000% easier for it to spread.
I have done a tiny bit of research into the virus... It would seem that alot of the reason it has a mortality rate of 90% is because of the extreme malnutrition in the countries where it is present. The body can't fight back as well as it could with an armory of vitamins and minerals at it's disposal.
I personally think that the mortality rate in the US would be alot lower, but still deadly.
For those of you who don't know, Ebola is a virus, passed on through fluid transmission as well as airborne methods. Meaning stay the fuck away from those who have it. It has an incubation period of a few weeks to two months and manifests as flu like, raised temperature ect...
Essentially, at it's end course, you hemorrhage and bleed internally, causing death.
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I hope it never gets loose over here.
But I'm deranged, so let's play a game with it.
Ebola gets loose, it's everywhere. They stop quarantining everyone because everyone has the virus in their blood stream.
Your test comes back, it's definitely positive. You have Ebola. It's been a few weeks and you feel fatigued all the time. Nothing is working as far as treatment goes, and there is the unsettling feeling that you are not going to recover from it.
1.) Do you end yourself prematurely? ( Under the fact that Ebola is going to kill you 100% anyway and you would rather not die bleeding from every hole in your body)
2.) Do you leave a message, aside from family, to let everyone else know?
3.) How do you do it, end it?
Personal answers:
1. Yes, I'd have to know 100% that I was going to die from Ebola first.
2. Yes, though I'd ramble on XD
3. If I'm going out my way. I'd get together my last fursuit (Gazelle at this point), straitjacket, hand mitts, leg restraints and I'd have to make a hood for the gazelle.
I've already talked with my mother about such things, not this method, but in general if it gets this far. She is all for dying without pain and suffering and knows a way to put one to 'sleep' with drugs as pain free as possible.
Anyway, Gazelle, restraints, hood and the final part, Noose. Put all of those together, and that is my end. No drop though, rather have everything so that it's all tight before whatever sends me air born.
I am not dying because I shit my intestines out, coughed my lungs up and had my brains leak from my ears....
If it is unavoidable, and I know that I'd going to die, then It's my way.
May also convince someone (I know my brother would) to film the entire thing and share it.
Ok, enough mentally ill thoughts for the day...
What would you all do?
So the CDC bought 2 people here who have Ebola... yay. Even though they are quarantined in Georgia, well we all know that 'shit happens' and being here on our shores makes it 1000% easier for it to spread.
I have done a tiny bit of research into the virus... It would seem that alot of the reason it has a mortality rate of 90% is because of the extreme malnutrition in the countries where it is present. The body can't fight back as well as it could with an armory of vitamins and minerals at it's disposal.
I personally think that the mortality rate in the US would be alot lower, but still deadly.
For those of you who don't know, Ebola is a virus, passed on through fluid transmission as well as airborne methods. Meaning stay the fuck away from those who have it. It has an incubation period of a few weeks to two months and manifests as flu like, raised temperature ect...
Essentially, at it's end course, you hemorrhage and bleed internally, causing death.
**************SPECULATION SECTION BELOW***************
I hope it never gets loose over here.
But I'm deranged, so let's play a game with it.
Ebola gets loose, it's everywhere. They stop quarantining everyone because everyone has the virus in their blood stream.
Your test comes back, it's definitely positive. You have Ebola. It's been a few weeks and you feel fatigued all the time. Nothing is working as far as treatment goes, and there is the unsettling feeling that you are not going to recover from it.
1.) Do you end yourself prematurely? ( Under the fact that Ebola is going to kill you 100% anyway and you would rather not die bleeding from every hole in your body)
2.) Do you leave a message, aside from family, to let everyone else know?
3.) How do you do it, end it?
Personal answers:
1. Yes, I'd have to know 100% that I was going to die from Ebola first.
2. Yes, though I'd ramble on XD
3. If I'm going out my way. I'd get together my last fursuit (Gazelle at this point), straitjacket, hand mitts, leg restraints and I'd have to make a hood for the gazelle.
I've already talked with my mother about such things, not this method, but in general if it gets this far. She is all for dying without pain and suffering and knows a way to put one to 'sleep' with drugs as pain free as possible.
Anyway, Gazelle, restraints, hood and the final part, Noose. Put all of those together, and that is my end. No drop though, rather have everything so that it's all tight before whatever sends me air born.
I am not dying because I shit my intestines out, coughed my lungs up and had my brains leak from my ears....
If it is unavoidable, and I know that I'd going to die, then It's my way.
May also convince someone (I know my brother would) to film the entire thing and share it.
Ok, enough mentally ill thoughts for the day...
What would you all do?
1: As much fun as it would be to break into the airport and start off the Ebola virus take over of the world, I'd end it
2: I'd have to shoot a movie as my goodbye, and leave "presents" for my enemies to enjoy. Ebola presents. Maybe so cherry filled choclate. Blood mixes in so well.
3: ALright, so i ahve choices here. If I wanted to go out in style, I'd have to go skydiving into the center of a volcano, while riding a huge inflatable shark and singing we are the champions. Either that or do a jump from the stratosphere doing the same thing. Or, if I wanted to be kinky, I'd like to be fully encased in rubber and latex, layers of the stuff, still keeping myself alive, though dulling the pain and such with drugs that do such things. I'd like each layer to alternate, with a thin layer, thick layer, and then a layer that can be inflated. At least till i am about four layer in. Then, submerged in clear candy and trapped there. So, when I die, I'd can be a black grub trapped in candy or something like that.
fortunately it is highly unlikely ebola could evolve into an airborne. because of this beuatiful biological factor that req
kind a good thing too else we would basically melt if they could just infect any cell they so wished.
It is airborne... read through there and it says monkeys caught it from an 'apparent airborne' strain
even more good news is that the virus also does not mutate very rapidly at all either, so it is even less likely to become airborne. besides to get technicaly an airborne virus like the flu is not a killer in the same sense as ebola. a flu basically opens you up to secondary infection.
A quick search for 'ebola airborne' shows a lot of 2012 results saying 'could ebola be airborne' (usual media trying to scare you into reading) and a lot of recent results saying there are no documented cases of air transmission (meaning everyone infected was either exposed to infected bodily fluids or were eating infected bats).
Ebola is so lethal in humans and so slow to mutate (compared to flu or HIV) that it is unlikely an infected human would live long enough for the virus to work out how /not/ to kill its host. It is too lethal to become a big risk. And you ate only an infection risk when you display signs of infection (unlike flu). It's still scary though. And if I caught it, I'm definitely taking myself out. I'd probably try oxygen displacement since I don't have access to drugs or guns.
It is airborne... read through there and it says monkeys caught it from an 'apparent airborne' strain
2. Yes. I'd leave a message everyone would read. Say everything I feel like I should say.
3. Get into a situation where I'm helping someone in a dangerous spot. With any luck, I'd get shot in the head.
2. There isn't anyone to message, allone is what i'll ever be.
3. I would try climb into world's highest tree, and then jump out of it.
2.) Do you leave a message, aside from family, to let everyone else know? I would write down as much as i could rememeber despite the pain of doing so so that if anyone did happen to survive and found me would at least know i left something behind.
Guess that is what happens when you go to the bathroom in the same drinking water.
also when they brought him in he was in full on hazmat. they took extreme care, perhaps exagerrated care.
this is not resident evil dude. shit does not just happen, that is movie bullshit. not when the plague is not airborne and the only way you could get infected from the victims flown in is if you intentionally exposed yourself to their fluids or if they went crazy and jumped into a water supply. we are not dealing with an unknown here. we know that ebola spreads from bodily fluids, yet only does so when symptoms begin. there is a doctor who flew in and isolated himself, and has been in there for over a month now. he wasn't risking a single life even if he was exposed, and he has yet to show symptoms, because the virus is not contagious till it begins to attack the body. we know that much.
being fearful is not the way to go dude. fear is blinding, makes you dumb. wariness makes you aware of a threat yet smart. you take in the information.
there is being weary of the potential of ifnection then there is letting fear dehumanize plague victims in your eyes. not gonna damn you for saying they belong in prison, but being fearful has never done a human any favors.
its rare, mostly affects women, which i am not, and often caused by fuck ups in drug prescriptions. its more like an llergic reaction than anything, if the devil was given the right to invent a allergic reaction. my body was starting to fall apart and there was not a vaccine or antibiotic that could help me....... that is a terrifying thought. you can't make a vaccine for it, can't make a cure for it, you either survive it or you don't.
fortunately i did without much markings. got scars on my lips and blemishes across my skin here and there, but i was damn lucky.
with a plague, with a virus, you can figure out how the thing is trying to continue it existence and figure out how to prevent it from doing so. with sjs, all you can do is try to keep your body together till you immune system remebers how to properly work again. it is the diference between somthing trying to continue its existence and trying to use your body to do so, and your body forgetting how to work properly.
• Being a virus, it has evolved to better spread itself
• how the thing is trying to continue it existence
• somthing trying to continue its existence and trying to use your body to do so
• vomiting, diarrhea, and the bleeding are caused by the virus attempting to spread itself to other victims. like how the flu makes you cough and sneeze.
No, those symptoms are caused by the virus taking over the dna-replication machinery of your sells to make copies of itself, and in the process destroying your cells. Spreading to other hosts is just a useful side effect, not any sort of purpose. An important thing to remember about evolution is that it has no intended purpose. Viruses don't try anything; they don't evolve for any specific purposes; they know nothing about why they should not kill their hosts too fast. There is no teleology in evolution.
The rabbits and the plague brought to Australia to control them did not intend to evolve to become more resistant and less virulent. That just happened because that's what life does.
A few people have made specific plans for how they want to live their lives before the end. The problem with all of them is that by the time you realize that you have this disease and not any of dozens of other viruses that have all the same initial symptoms, it's too late to do anything. You are too sick—your body is too screwed up, too damaged, too withered way—to do anything but get in your bathtub and wait for the end … if you can think clearly enough to realize what's happening and are strong enough to go there.
The doctors in Africa did not have the sorts of containment facilities that he CDC has in Atlanta. They were working in suits that might be wank fantasies of some people here, except for the 120°F and dehydration part. They work long hours, get tired, and make mistakes. Take the suit off in the wrong sequence and then rub your nose and you're infected. Don't call those people stupid; they probably know more about it than I do.
Kinda my out.
1. I'd be holding on for some kind of treatment, but if doctor's advise is "get ready to die", then Yes, I'd rather check-out early.
2. I'd probably have to speak it rather than write it. I live close to family. And I'd probably end up burning bridges with my decision. But F that S.
3. The least violent way possible. Probably helium or nitrogen asphyxiation.