#iave

[kissesandmartinis]

leaked me before my exams

[whtnot]

just got my exam results

its not looking good ma man

[holy-duckk]

mad as hell about the philosophy exam so i drew myself killing kant with a baseball bat

[keefechambers]

I'm a Virgo (2023)

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

ohhh guy who wants to write about gay people so bad rn

[nonbinary-morro]

@i-hear-a-sound I'm obsessed with your Adam + Sienna dynamic soooso much I just had to draw them.

[closetdbisexual]

what did ari frenkel do for silicon valley hes in this show im warching

[jonbinary-archive]

r u guys really counting how many books/movies u r reading. i thought it was a joke !

[maquilanews]

Agiliza tu cruce a Laredo: Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre el Telepeaje

Automovilistas reportan tiempos de cruce de solo 15 minutos utilizando el carril Telepeaje y un dispositivo TAG, evitando así largas filas y embotellamientos habituales.

NUEVO LAREDO, TAM.- Los constantes embotellamientos en el Puente Internacional II son un problema que afecta a miles de conductores que cruzan diariamente hacia Laredo, Texas. Sin embargo, existe una solución práctica y eficiente para reducir considerablemente los tiempos de espera: el telepeaje. Automovilistas han reportado hacer un tiempo de hasta sólo 10 minutos de Nuevo Laredo a Laredo,…

[bidolatry]

woaj what the fuck

[dieayala]

ʎpǝuuǝʞ pt.1

Don’t know how it happened but it happened. life brought us together it was fate, don’t remember how we first started talking but it was late. i knew you were coming but didn’t know exactly what timing. I never wrote but i always cried for once in my life you made me want to try. your rare, mysterious soul like a work of art on the wall i get to listen to you talk about your songs. the prettiest eyes, when your gone i’ll cry. you always understood, but why? I think me and her gonna talk about our views of art, you’re my best friend even if we are far apart. If i loose my mind, i lost my way, in my dreams please don’t go away. No matter what, i won’t let you feel alone ever in your life. promise, to you i’ll never lie.

[eternallonelystar]

its 3 am im sitting on my bathroom floor everything is still and cold. alone. inside my head is getting louder time passed about an hour

make it stop please i took my meds but it always leaves me feeling empty

is too much to stay alive

[cpunkbubby]

When we hear the bell we all know were going to hhheeAAAALLLLLLLAHHHHHHHHHH

[keefechambers]

I'm a Virgo (2023)

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

progression of class writing 2: oh im going to make this about inscryption -> im going to make this about LUKE inscryption -> suddenly this is more about prophet luke -> have we considered the parallels between prophet luke and the mythological cassandra, the prophet who was cursed to never be believed and eventually walked knowingly into her own death

[thebookishwallflower]

I want to make a post to inform people about the current situation with the bird flu (/avian flu/H5N1) outbreaks.

I don't want to cause panic but do want to spread information.

This is especially important if you live in an area that has a news system you don't trust to give accurate, timely, or honest news about something like a possible new pandemic, use your own judgement.

If that applies it is going to be very important to make sure you stay informed and follow these H5N1 outbreaks yourself and know how to best protect yourself.

I am no expert, but I do know a good bit about disease and influenza in particular, and have been following the H5N1 outbreaks as they've been happening, so under the cut I'm going to do my best to inform everyone I can.

Please stay safe, stay informed, and spread information, not germs.

What's bird flu and why do I care? (What's bird flu and why do I care?)

Avian flu and bird flu mean the same thing, an influenza virus that (primarily) infects birds. H5N1 denotes a specific strain of avian influenza. H5N1 can spillover (when a pathogen spreads from it's normal host organism to a new host organism) from animals to humans.

How could I get H5N1? (How could I get H5N1?)

Human to human transmission has not been observed yet (12/1/24) during this current outbreak. You can get this from contact with wild birds, especially water fowl, domestic birds, cattle, pigs, horses, dogs, and bats. It is also possible to get from raw (unpasteurized) milk and undercooked meat from infected animals.

What's the big deal then? (What's the big deal then?)

The common flu is not very pathogenic. How pathogenic something is determines how sick something makes the host, something that is highly pathogenic can cause severe disease. H5N1 is considered a HPAI, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.

H5N1 is also a Type A influenza virus, most known Type A influenza viruses can infect birds. There is one Type A human flu in circulation at the moment, however it isn't very prevalent.

"IAV poses a significant risk of zoonotic infection, host switch, and the generation of pandemic viruses. IAVs can infect humans and a variety of animals, such as pigs, horses, marine mammals, cats, dogs, and birds (S1)."

IAV - Influenza A Viruses | Zoonotic infection - when an infectious disease of a non-human host infects a human host | Host switch - when a cross-species transmission of a pathogen can lead to successful, stable, and continuous infections

Every species the flu infects, the more strains that pop up under a sub-type IAV, the possibility for recombination increases. "Recombination occurs when at least two viral genomes [or strains] co-infect the same host cell and exchange genetic segments (S2)."

The flu is pretty good at recombination, when given the chance. It is also really good at mutating, and fast. If there were to be a recombination event and a new strain evolved (this would be called an antigenic shift) that was highly pathogenic, highly infectious (good at spreading, which H5N1 is), that could then infect humans and cause human-to-human transmission we might have a pandemic on our hands. This has not shown signs of happening during this outbreak*, this is what to look out for.

This (a recombination event) is what caused the 1918 pandemic during WW1. This pandemic killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people in 1918, in a world with a population of around 2 billion. 7.1 million died of COVID 19, as of 11/9/24 (S3), from a population of around 8 billion.

We know more, we are prepared, it's not guaranteed to happen, and it's not guaranteed to be as bad. But the possibilities are endless and it's extremely important to be prepared and stay informed.

So what do I do? (So what do I do?)

Again, stay informed, and that might mean checking independent news sources, the CDC website, and more, to keep yourself updated, especially if you know your local news won't do it for you. You should also familiarize yourself with the symptoms of influenza, if you have it, stay home.

Keep yourself safe, we had a pandemic already, you know the drill. Cover your nose and mouth when sneezing/coughing, wash your hands, sanitize your hands, and get your flu shot. And, in addition, avoid contact with wild birds, poultry, pigs, and cattle if you can.

In the event that this gets worse, social distancing is very important, being outdoors, wearing a mask, and all the stuff above, you can shed the virus for around a week before you start feeling bad. Keep yourself safe and don't infect anyone else.

If that doesn't sound like it'll do much, I promise you it does. Those are all classified NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) and even epidemiologists were shocked at their impact and importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. They did work, and they were incredibly effective—as long as they were carried out.

I don't want to cause panic or worry anyone, but that is how information ends of suppressed. I want to make everyone aware of what we might face so that we can fight it and be strong and stay safe.

If anyone has any questions, wants any clarification, any corrections, or wants to know some good places to learn more about this stuff please don't hesitate to contact me (@'s, dm's, or asks), I will answer as best I can.

Here's the CDC's page covering the H5 bird flu current situation.

S1 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5578040/

S2 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7106159/

S3 - https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths?n=c

*with the exception of this coverage (as a possibility): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/bird-flu-cases-mutation-canada