#or from cholera

[volixia669]

I...What.

Why the fuck the 1830s? "But without the racists" Okaaaaaaaaay, even if we set aside all the other bigotries alive and well, that's still a very simplified way of looking at slavery, white supremacy, and colonialism.

Also if the song isn't about those topics, that I'm sure she doesn't give a fuck about, why bring up racism at all? It just sounds like the songwriter was like "oh right the 1830s had slavery, let's just rhyme this with racists aaaaannnd perfect." Which again, whyyyyy the 1830s?

One thing is for sure, I'm still side eyeing my cousin who ADORES Taylor Swift and thinks her music is the best thing ever.

i can't believe this is real this sounds like it was pulled directly from the "i wanna have straight sex" tiktok

[sailormoonsub]

Happy new year everyone! We just had our Christmas yesterday (don't worry about it) and I need to show you what majesty @beauxoiseaux has handcrafted this time.

Also I have been using @xosailormars's usagi bun tutorial for like a decade now and it never steers me wrong

[heckyeahponyscans]

imagine being less competent than the Fyre Fest guy

[ofpd]

i often like to think that the bad oyster grantaire ate today gave him cholera. it's not remotely thematically compelling but boy is it funny to me

[unanchored-ship]

Cholera the blue one and typhoid

omg thanks for feeding me these designs...

[smol-blue-bird]

not to be an annoying crotchety back in my day boomer, but American Girl dolls really were better when I was a kid, right? like, they used to have actual stories and stuff. now every American Girl doll is like “Her name is Generic Blue-Eyed Straight-Blonde-Hair Girl #128838. She comes from a painfully ordinary, modern-day upper-middle-class household, she has exactly two (2) Conventionally Feminine Girl Hobbies, and she has experienced zero real problems ever in her life”

[quotesfrommyreading]

The loss of species diversity in northeastern forests of the United States similarly allowed tickborne pathogens to spill over into humans. In the original, intact northeastern forests, a diversity of woodland animals such as chipmunks, weasels, and opossums abounded. These creatures imposed a limit on the local tick population, for a single opossum, through grooming, destroyed nearly six thousand ticks a week. But as the suburbs grew in the Northeast, the forest was fragmented into little wooded plots crisscrossed by roads and highways. Specialist species like opossums, chipmunks, and weasels vanished. Meanwhile, generalist species like deer and white-footed mice took over. But deer and white-footed mice, unlike opossums and chipmunks, don't control local tick populations. When the opossums and the chipmunks disappeared, tick populations exploded.

As a result, tickborne microbes increasingly spill over into humans. The tickborne bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi first emerged in humans in an outbreak in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in the late 1970s. If left untreated, the disease it caused – Lyme disease – can lead to paralysis and arthritis among other woes. Between 1975 and 1995, cases increased twenty-five-fold. Today, three hundred thousand Americans are diagnosed with Lyme every year, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. Other tickborne microbes are spilling over as well. Between 2001 and 2008, cases of tickborne Babesia microti, which causes a malaria-like illness, increased twentyfold.

Neither West Nile virus nor Borrelia burgdorferi and its kin can spread directly from one person to another, yet. But they continue to change and adapt. And elsewhere, the reordering of wildlife species that precipitated their spillover into humans proceeds. Globally, 12 percent of bird species, 23 percent of mammals, and 32 percent of amphibians are at risk of extinction. Since 1970, global populations of these creatures have declined by nearly 30 percent. Just how these losses will shift the distribution of microbes between and across species, pushing some over the threshold, remains to be seen.

  —  Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Sonia Shah)

[cinnamonfknbuns]

it's so cold but I don't wanna get properly dressed bc im scared of running out of my good clothes... water please come back I miss u......

god if ur hearing this CLEAN WATER. FROM THE PIPES. IN MANAGEABLE QUANTITIES. 🫷😳🫸

[rpfisfine]

@vzajemnik

[caterpillarinacave]

I would have thrived in the middle ages

[techmomma]

OHHHHHH YEAH IT CAN, BABEYYY

and that’s not even mentioning the other carcinogens that go into casket-making, varnishes on coffins, etc. etc.

embalmed bodies decay. caskets decay, no matter what they are made of--yes, metal too. ALL of EVERYTHING that made up what you put in the ground during the funeral becomes... well, we’ll call that mixture of “grandma and everything she was buried in” something like “compost.” (funfact! the actual term of all of... that is called “necroleachate!”)

just runoff from farms gets into groundwater

burying bodies sure as hell gets into groundwater

oh! and that doesn’t even include the gallons of arsenic they used to use when embalming bodies between about the civil war and world war one! which were often an undertaker’s top secret mix of formaldehyde, arsenic, and a bunch of other decay-stalling bacteria-killing chemicals like borax and mercury! that they kept as trade secrets. <3 so we still have no idea WHAT exactly went into a bunch of people embalmed during this era <3

[kiatheinsomniac]

love being a writer bc I get to research the most random topics ever

currently looking into 19th century funeral home practices

[raceweek]

the fluro yellow +44 life vests for the floating grandstand would slap actually

[myclutteredbookshelf]

Current Reading List

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

[elxgantcaptain]

huffs a little.

"i don't just drink milk religiously. yes it is halal but that's beside the point. milk is very healthy compared to other non-nutritious drinks. i also drink water and juice in case you haven't noticed."

Hook smirked. "Its only that I only really see you with a glass of milk in your hand, my love."

"And where I'm from, milk is only healthy straight from the farm or breast for a babe, swill milk was foul and I refused to drink it as a child."

[quotesfrommyreading]

There are many mechanisms by which zoonotic pathogens can acquire the ability to spread directly between people, severing the cord that binds them to their reservoir animals. Vibrio cholerae did it by acquiring the ability to produce a toxin.

The toxin was the vibrio's pièce de résistance. Normally, the human digestive system sends food, gastric and pancreatic juice, bile, and various intestinal secretions to the intestines, where cells lining the gut extract nutrients and fluid, leaving behind a solid mass of excreta to expel. The vibrio's toxin altered the biochemistry of the human intestines such that the organ's normal function reversed. Instead of extracting fluids to nourish the body's tissues, the vibrio-colonized gut sucked water and electrolytes out of the body's tissues and flushed them away with the waste.

The toxin allowed the vibrio to accomplish two things essential to its success as a human pathogen. First, it helped the vibrio get rid of its competitors: the massive torrents of fluids sloughed off all the other bacteria in the gut, so that the vibrio (clinging to the gut in its tough micro-colonies) could colonize the organ undisturbed. Second, it assured the vibrio's passage from one victim to another. Even tiny drops of that excreta, on unwashed hands or contaminated food or water, couldcarry the vibrio to new victims. Now, so long as the vibrio could get into a single person and cause disease, it could spread to others, whether or not they exposed themselves to copepods or ingested the vibrio-rich waters of the Sundarbans.

The first pandemic caused by the new pathogens began in the Sundarbans town of Jessore in August 1817 after a heavy rainfall. Brackish water from the sea flooded the area, allowing salty copepod-rich waters to seep into people's farms and homes and wells. V. cholerae slipped into the locals' bodies and colonized their guts. Thanks to the toxin, Vibrio cholerae's basic reproductive number, according to modern mathematicians, ranged from 2 to 6. A single infected person could infect as many as half a dozen others. Within hours, cholera's first victims were being drained alive, each expelling more than fifteen quarts of milky-white liquid stool a day, filling the Sundarbans' streams and waste pits with excreta. It leaked into farmers' wells. Droplets clung to people's hands and clothes. And in each drop, vibrio bacteria swarmed, ready to infect a new host.

The Bengalis called the new disease ola, for “the purge”. It killed people faster than any other disease known to humankind. Ten thousand perished. Within a matter of months, the new plague held nearly two hundred thousand square miles of Bengal in its grip.

Cholera had made its debut.

  —  Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Sonia Shah)