R.J.'s Talkback Plebe Radio ([info]luciusmalfoy) wrote,
@ 2009-06-25 16:44:00
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How's life in swineflu post apocalyptic Real WORLD?
So 11 people at Andy's work are sick with swine flu or are caring for swine flu. It's fortunate then that he's been moved to a new building, because I'm sorry, I could not even BEGIN to cope with that. Like. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. No way Ho say.

I have four job interviews over the next two working days, and apparently my boss is talking to their board about working out some further arrangement with them around me staying with them. This is crazy-weird. Of course it is. Yes. Yes indeed. I now have a window seat in the office (right behind the boss omg) and it's quite fun. The job interviews are for various things, I'm not really sure to be honest. The thing is that my skill set is REALLY REALLY FUCKING specialized so... hrrrr. People either WANT ME or DO NOT. XD

I am also being vaguely creative, I have one editing/puttingtogetherabook/etc project I'm working on. And for the rest of the time I am procrastinating. I want to try my hand at cyberfunded creativity. Because I AM A SUCKER FOR NEW TRENDS, YES. Look at me. A SUCKER. But it sounds so funnnnn. And I could write about pirates!!!



We bought some cold Oolong Iced Tea today as we were drinking that in America.

Turns out that Iced Tea according to this particular company means "We made some tea, and it got cold. ENJOY."

Not amused.

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[info]vayshti
2009-06-25 10:07 am UTC (link)
After reading about the mild wave of Spanish flu that went through before it mutated and wipes everyone out, I think I'd be gunning for this version of it. I'd be like one of those parents who sticks their kids deliberately in with others who have chickenpox.

It's still killing less peeps than seasonal flu, and given how they're saying those around in the 1960s for the last mild swine flu have some natural immunity, I'd be taking that immunity from this version now, thanks, before it grows horns and turns us all in to zombies.

American tea will have a ton of sugar added (I'm not kidding). That should be the only difference.

Have no educated thinky-thoughts on cyberfunded work.

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[info]zeemverse
2009-06-26 03:23 am UTC (link)
See. I WOULD be gunning for it. But. There may be a link between mild cases and encephalitis lethargica. Which happens to be my ALL TIME FUCKING MEDICAL FEAR, right up there beside vCJD.

I would rather live in a hole for the next six years.

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[info]vayshti
2009-06-26 07:57 am UTC (link)
There's been bouts of swine flu since then without any suggestion of secondary development of encephalitis lethargica - or at least no more that with other flu strains.

There was a bout of Type A and Type B influenza in Japan which some researchers believe was responsible for cases of EL in the late 1990s. (And they also have Japanese Encephalitis, too, poor peeps - which by the way, has migrated to Australia).

Oh, and pharyngitis, rather than flu, was responsible for the cases looked at in this 2004 study. (It also found the link between EL and the Spanish flu was unsupported, as have other studies. Its findings were that EL is immune-response related, rather than disease related - hence why Strep could set it off.)

So long way of saying be scared of it, but not because of a possible link to the current H1N1. A temporary hole won't be enough. You'd have to hermit to avoid all possible triggers.

On vCJD: Hee - good thing you don't eat meat then!

Personally, as I've just watched a 64yo man, PLB's dad, slide over the last decade to the point where he's being put into a home on Monday, with no proper diagnosis (the best they can do is Alzheimers-like), any degenerative brain condition freaks me.

Oh, that and ebola.

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[info]zeemverse
2009-06-26 08:46 am UTC (link)
ARRRGH, that makes it worse.

Sadly, on vCJD, I was cheerfully eating cheap shitty meat in England during the height of MCD.It's been well over 20 years now but it could STRIKE ANY TIME. Prions, man.

Sorry to hear about his illness... :/ There seems to be so many that people don't understand what-the-problem-is about. (I hope they do find out. :/)

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[info]vayshti
2009-06-26 09:12 am UTC (link)
Two things to make it better?

1. Some researchers think it's actually really common, it's just we're dealing with a Likert scale, rather than a y/n binary.
2. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Even those who get it these days, rarely progress to the batshit crazy, parkinson's-like or coma stages.

You're allowed to give blood now though, yeah?

I am strangely fascinated by Kuru now though.

There are dead holes in his brain on MRI scans too (just like CJD), but the time period involved discounts that. I guess the 'we don't know' is actually a symptom of better pathology - in ye olden dayes they would have written it off as dementia/getting old, and that would have been it. We would think we knew, but in reality, not so much.

I also hope they figure it out. Not so much for Jack, because unless they also improve stem cell research, that damage is irreversible, but for the future. (fuuuuuuuu - if this is genetic....)



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[info]zeemverse
2009-06-26 09:25 pm UTC (link)
That's... good then. :/ And no, I can't give blood. I will probably never be able to give blood. (I do call up once a year and they say, uh no, sorry, you iz poison.)

Kuru has really turned me off the idea of eating human flesh!!

...that's so weird... he's never been to Guam, has he? :/ I remember reading Oliver Sacks on CJD and things-that-look-like-it. It hasn't happened to anyone else in the family though has it?

I think that in the future they'll probably just be like, oh, your old brain isn't working right? Let's upgrade it and add a new flash drive.

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[info]vayshti
2009-06-26 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Really? Here they do blood runs, but just make sure that it is used for only specific blood products. The stuff with the possibility of prions they import.

I have visions of Soylent Green being even more batshit than it already is with Kuru on the menu.

Yorkshite (unintentional typo, but I'm going to leave it there) and South Australia. That's pretty much it. A few horridays in Spain and Romania.

And there is a hint that his dad was baffled before his time as well. The mother unit says no, it was quite different, but she used to tell another story. None of Jack's 4 brothers or 2 sisters are having problems like this though.

Does that mean we can overclock the run speed and just trepann take off the shell for better cooling procedures?

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[info]omizu
2009-06-25 12:51 pm UTC (link)
What's cyberfunded creativity?

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[info]talithakalago
2009-06-25 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Three dead from swine flu in Australia... dun dun dun...

Somehow I have still avoided it.

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[info]zeemverse
2009-06-26 03:26 am UTC (link)
How can this be, you are our canary!!!

I hope you are staying safe as fuck away from it and people with it. :(

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[info]talithakalago
2009-06-26 03:38 am UTC (link)
I am, but my mother is spending six hours a day around sick people.

Maybe I've finally reached the point I am immune to all things?

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[info]zeemverse
2009-06-26 03:57 am UTC (link)
LVL UP

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[info]talithakalago
2009-06-27 01:46 am UTC (link)
Tag is now a 25th level cleric and has gained the skillset immunity!

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