Quo Vadis GOP?

[Malthus]

Terrifying to me. 😄

I mean, as a patient, you are risking that your physician had prepared the stuff properly, that you will in fact get a *mild* form of a disease that can be fatal.

Yeah, totally terrifying.  Even more so than buying some chemical component designed to create hallucinations from a dude you barely know sitting at some street corner who got it from another dude who got it from a shady lab with naked working ladies (to prevent product theft) and a doubtful hygiene of the place compared to the usual sterilization of medical objects.

That is one strange fantasy you have. 

Personally, I particularly liked getting magic mushrooms as my hallucinogen of choice - usually from one of those total mushroom fanatics, who grew them himself (apparently not that hard to do). Never had any quality control problems.

... but, sadly, no naked ladies involved. 

[Grey Fox]

It still exists in labs though.  And you will be even less assured when you learn one of those labs is in Russia.

The premise of question is what would occur if someone injected themselves with it.  Since no one has been inoculated against it for a number of decades, it probably would kill millions.

a quick read suggests there are existing vaccines (haven't checked their efficiency) and I'm pretty sure I was vaccinated against this as a kid.

I'm positive that since smallpox was declared eliminated they no longer inoculate kids against it.  It wasn't amongst the various vaccines my kids were given.

You and I are old enough we may well have received the vaccine though.  That was around the time it was declared eliminated.

Edit: or maybe not - wasn't that the vaccine that caused a kind of divot scar in the upper arm you sometimes see in older people?

Nah, that's the original Polio vaccine.

[grumbler]

It still exists in labs though.  And you will be even less assured when you learn one of those labs is in Russia.

The premise of question is what would occur if someone injected themselves with it.  Since no one has been inoculated against it for a number of decades, it probably would kill millions.

a quick read suggests there are existing vaccines (haven't checked their efficiency) and I'm pretty sure I was vaccinated against this as a kid.

I'm positive that since smallpox was declared eliminated they no longer inoculate kids against it.  It wasn't amongst the various vaccines my kids were given.

You and I are old enough we may well have received the vaccine though.  That was around the time it was declared eliminated.

Edit: or maybe not - wasn't that the vaccine that caused a kind of divot scar in the upper arm you sometimes see in older people?

You know if you have been vaccinated against smallpox:

[DGuller]

Back when I was  in Ukraine, I remember that one summer, in order to be allowed to go on vacation, our family (along with everyone else) had to be vaccinated with some two vertical razor swipes across the skin on the upper right arm.  I think this was due to an outbreak of something somewhere at the time.  Everyone who got vaccinated had a red vertical equal sign for a while on their upper arm.  I wonder what that vaccination was against.

[Solmyr]

Back when I was  in Ukraine, I remember that one summer, in order to be allowed to go on vacation, our family (along with everyone else) had to be vaccinated with some two vertical razor swipes across the skin on the upper right arm.  I think this was due to an outbreak of something somewhere at the time.  Everyone who got vaccinated had a red vertical equal sign for a while on their upper arm.  I wonder what that vaccination was against.

Maybe the KGB was marking you for elimination.

[DGuller]

Back when I was  in Ukraine, I remember that one summer, in order to be allowed to go on vacation, our family (along with everyone else) had to be vaccinated with some two vertical razor swipes across the skin on the upper right arm.  I think this was due to an outbreak of something somewhere at the time.  Everyone who got vaccinated had a red vertical equal sign for a while on their upper arm.  I wonder what that vaccination was against.

Maybe the KGB was marking you for elimination.

It doesn't work like that.

[Eddie Teach]

How does it work?

[Jacob]

How does it work?

Not like that, obviously, as DGuller was not eliminated.

[grumbler]

How does it work?

Not like that, obviously, as DGuller was not eliminated.

How do we know that DGuller was not eliminated?  The DG we know could be a mole.

[The Brain]

A zombie mole?

[crazy canuck]

Terrifying to me. 😄

I mean, as a patient, you are risking that your physician had prepared the stuff properly, that you will in fact get a *mild* form of a disease that can be fatal.

Yeah, totally terrifying.  Even more so than buying some chemical component designed to create hallucinations from a dude you barely know sitting at some street corner who got it from another dude who got it from a shady lab with naked working ladies (to prevent product theft) and a doubtful hygiene of the place compared to the usual sterilization of medical objects.

That is one strange fantasy you have. 

Personally, I particularly liked getting magic mushrooms as my hallucinogen of choice - usually from one of those total mushroom fanatics, who grew them himself (apparently not that hard to do). Never had any quality control problems.

... but, sadly, no naked ladies involved. 

The yards along the walk back from junior high school were filled with them during mushroom season.  Also, sadly, no nudity.

[grumbler]

A zombie mole?

Possibly.  Maybe a zombie desman, if not a zombie mole.  They are hard to tell apart.

[Jacob]

A zombie mole?

I prefer chicken mole.

[Valmy]

A zombie mole?

I prefer chicken mole.

Me to

[Razgovory]

This just in: Mitch McConnel is still a duplicitous asshole.