It's sad, but it's of note for epidemiological reasons. If no one else ate the fish, there's no reason to think a second person could have become sick.
Epidemiology of Vibriosis in California, 2013-2019
During the surveillance period, V. parahaemolyticus was the most common species identified
as the cause of vibriosis (845 cases, 50.0% of cases), followed by V. alginolyticus (269 cases,
15.9%) and non-toxigenic V. cholerae (91 cases, 5.4%). Thirty cases (1.8%) of V. vulnificus
were reported. Among the 1,481 cases with complete hospitalization information, 287 (19.7%)
of 1,454 non-V. vulnificus cases were hospitalized and 23 of 27 (85%) of V. vulnificus cases
were hospitalized. Deaths were reported among 30 (1.8%) case-patients at the time of case
report. Of these deaths, 10 (33.3%) had V. vulnificus infection and the others had infection with
another Vibrio or unidentified species.
The spread of Vibrio vulnificus as a result of warming coastal waters seems worthy of concern. Though uncommon, it is far more dangerous than other Vibrio species. Anything that could raise the incidence of infection is very bad.
"Vibrio vulnificus wound infections have a mortality rate around 25%. In people in whom the infection worsens into sepsis, typically following ingestion, the mortality rate rises to 50%."
"Increasing seasonal temperatures and decreasing salinity levels seem to favor a greater concentration of Vibrio within filter-feeding shellfish of the U.S. Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico, especially oysters (Crassostrea virginica)."
Religion is child abuse. No surprise there'd be more. They're already in the business. It's on the package. That's what they're selling.
They take young inquisitive minds and teach them to be subject and secondary to archaic bullshit and propaganda as early as they can listen, teaching them they deserve abuse and can't trust their senses and intuitions and sense of self. It's fucking disgusting.
Even the best pieces of religion are just a table setting, training to lay down a lifetime of torment and failure. A means to take away any agency and decency and accomplishment an individual might have, so they can be appropriated and misused by greedy lying abusive fucks in supposed positions of power, people we're supposed to respect.
Religion has no place in society. It is a perversion and a derangement of the natural sense in decent individuals that there should be goodness between people and that we should improve ourselves and our environment in a meaningful way. It is absolutely designed to debase human's faith in ourselves and has only survived because successful religions piggyback on the worst parts of vestigial tribal instincts, outlets for which have otherwise been mostly removed from modern life.
Weren't they used to sell shares of any publicly traded business they could get their hands on? They were in the daily business of minding everyone else's business. Not that they should have been blown up necessarily, but this meme is bad.
Not to my knowledge. (Didn't look it up, but thought it was him and Laura Prepon that were. And she might have left, not sure.) Just was referring to how Scientology has a history of blackmail.
Under FARA see "information-service employee, or political consultant." I think there's a strong argument there that he saw activity on StarLink, discussed it with Putin and then publicly walked that shit back when he realized it was criminal after the fact to cover it up.
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