I’d like to know what the “live biological samples” were.

They'll mostly be successful in killing their own voter base, which would ultimately turn out positively?

I mean... Aren't the conservatives going to do that anyway?

Well, this time around, MAGA conservatives have proven that they can indeed wear masks so maybe... naw. They'll come up with some reason not to again.

Maybe that's the accelerationists goal. Retreat in their bunkers, use ai to run things outside while humans die en masse, and then "rebuild society from its ashes".

You get what you voted for. The good old times!

Assuming of course, to be pessimistic, it hasn't been weaponized. Siberian Anti-Plague Research facility doesn't fill me with confidence, and you'd expect the hospital to have tried antibiotics, granted they may have been too late or used the wrong ones.

such fun times to be without spleen

No idea if true but people on reddit said it had to be treated within 24 hours of symptom onset.

A ton of people would easily try to wait it out and be too late to get meds.

Why is this comment buried here? It's literally the solution! Do people love the thrill of panicking? Internet, you so silly sometimes...

I'm guessing they made an extra feisty version. Otherwise, break out the antibiotics, no need for death or massive quarantine..

I'm not sure, so I'm gonna wear my beak mask just to be safe.

And for people worried about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that "today it can be easily treated with antibiotics and the use of standard preventative measures."

Not if it is developed by Russians to be antibiotic resistant.

Why would they have a lab working on it if it was easily treatable by antibiotic? Why the worker died anyway and they introduced a quarantine?

It’s like bills with titles that say the opposite of what they achieve.

The articles says it's not a virus:

Darya Shipilova, an employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, was exposed to the bacteria after she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while she was collecting samples, the Kyiv Independent reported.

Why does it say virus in the title?

It's said to be yersina pestis there, the black death, but an airborne strain that causes septicimia within a day if not treated.

I would imagine that is from gain of function research they've been doing.

I am pinning my hopes on a random Lemmy commentor.

I hate this timeline.

Yeah, people seem to think the plague is extinct? There are yearly cases of plague in nearby Mongolia for example. It's also not usually as easy to spread compared to viruses like influensa. It's still a scary thing to think about, but nothing for us to worry about really...

Strange for someone working with that specific pathogen to not be innoculated prophylactically.

looking at how people react in regards of vaccines, masks, and medical misinformation, I think even a common cold can be a successful bio-weapon

This would be the most stupid and inefficient biological weapon. Again, we have the vaccine AND the cure.

Erm, Actually. It's obvious they're still researching the Suppression and Sympto-Statis gene tech so they can sneak the plague into other countries without panic.

You casuals wouldn't understand. 😏 /s

I mean unless they are somehow trying to develop an antibiotic and vaccine resistant strain of the plague? If it were the case then it is almost 100% a bioweapon research at best under the guise of bioweapon security. But I don't know if this person is a bioweapon researcher or a public health researcher.

Maybe they're making a potent cross-species variant by weaponising good ol' Russian boreal swamp debauchery.

Ah yes here we go again.

Something about this image gave me temporary Dyslexia.

Someone had written about viral pneumonia coming from wuhan china prior to 2019 too. I forget how they said that novel played out it was different than what happened otherwise. No writer could've forseen just how stupid we were becoming.

Always has been.

The USSR from the Stalin era onwards had world-leading biological and chemical weapons programmes, largely due to having plenty of test subjects in the gulag system.

There are very legitimate reasons to be doing research like this. Every developed nation pretty much has labs like this.

However, that isn't to say none of these are attempting to make weapons. The issue is research for a weapon like this looks pretty much identical to the good kind of research. The only way to know the difference would be getting your hands on documents saying it's for a weapon.

Well looking through the list of symptoms, it makes you murderous and violent, you never seem to die a natural death, and all you want to do in life is destroy the brains of the woke.

...I guess they've already got it.

This is the literal plague, which is highly treatable with antibiotics, so we have to assume that they are researching ways to make plague more contagious and/or less treatable.

I will never understand the thought behind weaponizing diseases. They kill indiscriminately, even you, the developer or the president who orders it's release. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

His book The Demon in the Freezer is also really good and about small pox.