Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
boosted
I was at #Costco today. Absolutely packed, even though it was late morning on an ordinary Tuesday. I will be happy when they build the second one we're supposed to be getting.
And out of the hundreds and hundreds of customers, and dozens and dozens of staff I saw, I spotted ... zero people wearing masks of any sort. I was the only one.
Lots of people coughing and sneezing and moaning about being sick, with a brutal flu going round, *and* another mystery virus, along with COVID of course.
FFS. It was the same the other day at my doctor's office. No one wearing a mask.
I think humanity - at least the North American varieties - is waving a big "Hey, viruses, we give up" sign.
#mask #virus #COVID #FFS #WearAMask #N95 #illness #sick #flu
Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes
https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20251219_9539.html
#HackerNews #Ushikuvirus #Eukaryotes #Virus #Discovery #Science #News
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
boosted
![fun fact: your internal body temperature rises when you are infected because viruses are using your body for bitcoin mining [pic of a guy's internal temperature and there are some blues, yellows, orange and some red. and an arrow toward a guy that is mostly red with a bit of orange and yellow]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/837/422/825/863/147/original/7eed4a1b0ec6f0c1.jpg)
It finally hit me too. I haven't been sick in two years, but now it is my turn. This thing triggered a killer migraine and fever through the night, and now I just feel like shit, too tired to do anything, throat's wrecked, brain fog, and chills like it's freezing indoors. Everything hurts.
Take care of yourself out there.
"Cases will continue to rise until the influenza season peaks, likely in late December or early January. Most people will recover from influenza on their own. People with severe symptoms or other medical conditions should seek medical care."
manisha
boosted
What if the best crop protectors aren’t chemicals — but the viruses living inside fungi?
In this video, we explore how mycoviruses could become powerful, self-spreading tools for sustainable agriculture — reshaping plant health from the inside out.
https://youtu.be/CGxSWkF762g?si=NERFkJY2J1bHdxFw
#fungi #mycology #agriculture #ecology
#aspergillus #education #academia
#phd_life #phdone #forest #mushrooms
#virus #mycovirus #crop #food #mycovirus #Science #nature #Farming #fungus #plants #foraging #Health #biology
What if the best crop protectors aren’t chemicals — but the viruses living inside fungi?
In this video, we explore how mycoviruses could become powerful, self-spreading tools for sustainable agriculture — reshaping plant health from the inside out.
https://youtu.be/CGxSWkF762g?si=NERFkJY2J1bHdxFw
#fungi #mycology #agriculture #ecology
#aspergillus #education #academia
#phd_life #phdone #forest #mushrooms
#virus #mycovirus #crop #food #mycovirus #Science #nature #Farming #fungus #plants #foraging #Health #biology
6/ Once it became apparent that the noble act of baring one’s arm in a drugstore would not end the #covid19 #pandemic no matter how politically enlightened one might be, the focus switched to minimizing not infections but the social and psychological impact of infections. “Mild” became a favorite word when describing any complaints the body had about fighting colonization by a virus that traveled along its arteries and veins while damaging them, burrowed along nanotubes to reach neurons deep inside the brain, and killed off the T-cells that defended it against further infections. Anyone who spoke of such unpleasant realities on Twitter was in for a barrage of righteous indignation by Those Who Knew Better.
7/ Then even that modest forum where opponents of universal infection could sometimes be heard was bought and ruined, and an already dim public awareness of what the #SARS2 #virus could and often did do to the human body faded into oblivion. Even reminding people about it by the simple act of wearing a mask on one’s face to avoid infection became socially unacceptable.
You probably weren’t going to get hired if you refused to breathe the unfiltered air of the person interviewing you. You might even get fired if you managed to get through the interview without a mask or infection and then showed up with the mask. You certainly would have less of a chance of getting promoted, even without the retreats and team-building exercises that demanded everyone not just share the same vision but also the same collection of airborne pathogens.
The #Covid situation is so horrific that few people feel like talking about it, including those of us who know #CovidIsNotOver and who have invested hundreds of hours into reading about the dangers of #Covid19 to our bodies and brains. A few hardy souls like @augieray continue to provide valuable information, but I haven’t posted about it for months. It’s hard to spend time on, especially knowing that it will change nothing.
Nonetheless, here is a 🧵 that takes a quick look at where we are. It ain’t pretty.
1/ It’s so difficult to speak of what’s happening that maybe it’ll be easier to take the “future historian” viewpoint. So here goes. I’ll dispense with the distraction of quotation marks.
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In the mid-twenties, the #virus had infected the entire world multiple times, with the exception of a few rare holdouts (note: including this writer, at least so far) who persisted with grim determination to avoid it, never breathing shared air except with an #N95 respirator stuck to their faces. There was no other way. It made communal meals impossible and inserted an awkward visible barrier into social interactions.
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:
boosted
Influenza spagnola, ricostruito il genoma di un ceppo virale a partire da polmoni conservati in formalina per più di 100 anni.
Si stima che fra il 1918 e il 1920 la cosiddetta “influenza spagnola” causò fra i 20 e i 100 milioni di vittime in tutto il mondo: fu una delle pandemie più devastanti della storia. Ma quali mutazioni consentirono al virus dell’influenza A H1n1 di adattarsi agli esseri umani, e soprattuto di diventare così virulento?
Influenza spagnola, ricostruito il genoma di un ceppo virale a partire da polmoni conservati in formalina per più di 100 anni.
Si stima che fra il 1918 e il 1920 la cosiddetta “influenza spagnola” causò fra i 20 e i 100 milioni di vittime in tutto il mondo: fu una delle pandemie più devastanti della storia. Ma quali mutazioni consentirono al virus dell’influenza A H1n1 di adattarsi agli esseri umani, e soprattuto di diventare così virulento?
Angela Antunovic
boosted
Single antiviral shot could offer better protection than flu vaccines
A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and should even be effective against new strains
Single antiviral shot could offer better protection than flu vaccines
A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and should even be effective against new strains