New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

Collision Resistance · 2 years ago

New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

ThenThreeMore · 2 years ago

prion disease,

Jesus. Please tell me that’s an extremely rare result. Because that is genuinely fucking terrifying.

Frank [he/him, he/him] · 2 years ago

Jesus fuck. : |

I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing that.

Iraglassceiling [she/her] · 2 years ago

If you really want to scare yourself go read about FIP, which is what happens to cats when they get repeatedly infected with coronavirus.

Iraglassceiling [she/her] · edit-2 2 years ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047479/#:~:text=Current work suggests that there,prion disease%2C i.e.%2C neurodegeneration.

Yeah it’s fully terrifying.

I’m extra freaked that now Covid is endemic in the deer populations because Cervid Wasting Disease is also endemic and I’m afraid they will interact somehow…

@Shortstack@reddthat.com · 2 years ago

Welp, guess masks are forever now between wildfire smoke and spontaneous prion generation risk. Jfc

Iraglassceiling [she/her] · 2 years ago

What’s really cool is that prion disease incubation period can be years 🙃

panopticon [comrade/them] · 2 years ago

Ah fuck haha lol ;_;

Iraglassceiling [she/her] · 2 years ago

spoiler: a giant emoji (maybe)

spoiler

covid-cool

silent_water [she/her] · 2 years ago

this is fucking terrifying

New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn

New Covid wave has begun and we should wear masks again, warn scientists