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Posted 27 January 2026 - 03:38 PM

QuickTidal, on 27 January 2026 - 03:06 PM, said:

https://edition.cnn....y-olympics-intl

Trump being like "I want my personal secret police Gestapo to be on site for the Olympics in ITALY"...should be SO much more insane news than it's being treated...why are we acting like it's okay for a US president to send US secret police into a foreign country like it's nothing?

The US should be banned from the Olympics over this. Send a message to this orange turd that this shit is not going to fly in other countries....

I so want to see Italy just stomp this. They won't, a country can bring whomever they choose as security provided they can prove identity and no obvious criminal convictions, but dear gods it would be so good to see Italy and/or the Olympics skip over the empty rhetoric and social media hand wringing and just drop a 'fuck you US, no, stay home, sorry athletes your government is an asshole, see you next time, call us if you need asylum'.

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 04:25 PM

The mayor of that town has said they are not welcome, but I am unsure how much clout he has. Also though Security are allowed to accompany athletes, I'm unsure of the level of "militant" they can be, ect....

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 04:42 PM

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 04:43 PM

Macros, on 27 January 2026 - 04:42 PM, said:

Unarmed.
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100%.

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 05:20 PM

I would like to think that surely they would not be allowed to freely roam as they do in US cities but no one seems willing to go against the orange turds will do who knows? They have to be subject to the laws of the land - I doubt they can get presidential pardons for crimes committed in Europe!

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 05:51 PM

Well it's only natural that he'd want ICE there, since there will be a lot of heads of state around to kidnap...

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 05:53 PM

So many non white people to deport

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Posted 27 January 2026 - 06:16 PM

He heard it was the Winter Olympics and got confused.

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Posted Today, 03:55 PM

Isn't it funny that RFK had the US disconnected from the WHO JUST as there isn Nipah virus outbreak in India that has caused more than than a few South East Asian countries (so far) to shut their airports behind quarantine protocols...

Goddamnit if RFK and the US get us into another fucking pandemic because they are untethered from the world health body that warns and gives advice for preventing this shit...I'm gonna be pissed.

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Posted Today, 04:22 PM

QuickTidal, on 29 January 2026 - 03:55 PM, said:

In its current form apparently it's not transmissible enough and causes severe illness too quickly after the infected person becomes contagious. But left unchecked it could mutate into a pandemic contagion...

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"Nipah is a paradox," [Dr. Vimal Pahuja, MD, Associate Director – Internal Medicine at Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai] says. "It has the mortality of a pandemic-level threat, but it lacks the transmission efficiency to become one."

The virus requires close contact with bodily fluids, limiting its reproductive number (R0). In many cases, patients become severely ill quickly, reducing their ability to spread the virus widely.

"It burns too hot and too fast," Dr. Pahuja explains. "That is our natural barrier."

However, he adds a note of caution.

"The biology says 'unlikely,' but virology always warns 'possible.' Nipah is only one genetic mutation away from becoming more transmissible. If that barrier breaks, the equation changes overnight."

https://etedge-insights.com/industry/healthcare/nipah-virus-explained-how-it-spreads-why-its-deadly-and-why-india-is-on-alert/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20biology%20says%20'unlikely%2C,Nipah%20offers%20a%20cautious%20reassurance.

Of course most scientists and the WHO initially assumed COVID-19 was effectively not transmissible through aerosols because of its relatively low initial replication rate, with disastrous consequences.

And scientists were able to successfully infect African green monkeys through aerosol transmission, using laboratory equipment:

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African green monkeys were exposed to either the Malaysia (NiV-M) or Bangladesh (NiV- strain using a large-particle aerosol exposure. NiV-M infection resulted in a fatality rate of 27%, while NiV-B infection led to a 75% fatality rate characterized by rapid respiratory decline and systemic viral dissemination.

https://journals.plo...al.ppat.1013835

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