At least 5 dead in Burundi from a mystery illness: Africa CDC

World War ZZZ

The formal innovation is Stationary Zombies

Or a Typhoid Mary if you're feeling sassy

Yes, start in a high population country, only crank up the symptoms after you've reached every country.

I got a bidet. It's crazy how much longer toilet paper lasts now

They only had to pay us enough to live.

Let’s hope this one doesn’t put points into Projectile Vomiting

There was a cough. You know the borders have been closed.

In Madagascar, can confirm they're not (mostly because we've got no fuel)

No but they’re only shipping to Iceland.

Oh man weird timing to read this. I was just moments ago looking at pics from early 2020 and I saw I had the “shut down everything“ meme from then, now I see this.

Long incubation doesnt necessarily mean high transmission during incubation period either. And the most important part is that this is happening in Africa and not china. Like it or not Africa is significantly less well connected to the rest of the world than china which is where the last 2 of 3 world wide pandemic started from. 

Yeah, that’s the thing people miss. The only reason why viruses tend to become weaker the more contagious they are is because of evolutionary pressure. If a virus with a high mortality rate spreads asymptotically for several days before symptoms develop, it has very little evolutionary pressure to become less deadly. If you’re thinking this sounds somewhat familiar to COVID, you’d be right. We arguably got incredibly lucky that it wasn’t deadlier because it doesn’t have much in the way of evolutionary pressure to become less deadly due to how it spreads. IIIRC it’s remained about the same, it’s just we have vaccines and better protocols at hospitals. Edit: I am speaking in generalities. There are other aspects to evolution that affect things. For example, it is possible that some traits can’t exist alongside other traits, etc. 

Thanks for calling this out. I see it repeated on Listnook all the time that high IFR precludes a virus from being a pandemic strain. While it’s fair to say there’s *generally* an inverse correlation between IFR and transmissibility, it’s not an absolute guarantee. There’s other factors like incubation period and age stratification that come into play too.

Utah first state to be completely wiped out.

I've told this story before! In February 2020, my daughter and I had a mystery illness that was unlike any other cold we'd ever had. We weren't *sicker* than usual but it was a different type of sick - more fatigue and body aches and much less respiratory than any previous cold. We got it a few days after having a lengthy conversation at the library with another young family who had just returned from visiting family in central China. Looking back, I'm convinced it was actually COVID.

BRB, going to throw up the virus.

Or: super-AIDS. I dunno if this is a gamble we wanna take

Get two birds stoned at once

No lol, it’s bat guano

They paved hell and put up a parking lot? You could make a song out of that 😯🤔😂😂