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Pneumonic plague should be BSL-3 I believe, which means it needs either a Biosafety cabinet of level 2 minimum and ideally level 3. Level 2 should prevent aerosols escaping and level 3 is a sealed box. Either way dropping a ‘test tube’ should have been a mitigated risk in the former and a non event in the latter. Protocol would have been to disinfect everything. She would have I’d imagine be given prophylactic antibiotics and told to isolate for the incubation period which should be around 1-7 days. Bsl3 labs and above have paperwork and protocols like you wouldn’t believe. I believe she wouldn’t have been able to work alone either so no hiding the accident either. pope would’ve been a gown, double gloves, taped to the sleeve, respiratory protection, eye/face shield

The timeline of September 29 to October 3rd is very fast but maybe plausible in a worst case scenario. The level of care would have needed to be frightfully lax though! Protocol would have been for someone to check on her every day to keep on eye on symptoms and to make sure she is maintaining isolation.

Human error is always the week link but really so much would need to have gone wrong here for her to not only die of the plague but to have started an outbreak even more protocols and human error would be needed.

The cure is streptomycin for gods sake.

Resident evil movie punched well above its weight. Very fun, very good

Holy fuck!

The Supreme Court said the Trump admin can go ahead with their voter ID database. I think states on a case by case basis can choose to use it but the fear is it will be so riddled with out of date information, or just bugs because of how rapidly it was created that it will just delete large swathes of people from the voter rolls.

Mentalist, on 21 September 2026 - 01:38 AM, said:

NATO can smell the weakness too though. A small response now will stave off decades of problems and dealign with Russia now is easier and cheaper then ever because of how much Ukraine is sucking up their wealth, manpower, military and covert resources too.

Honestly if they try this and NATO doesnt smack it down like gods own wrath, well you cant fix stupid.

Russia can’t handle the war they have. I’m not Alexander the Great but this strategy seems to have no benefits. They can always retreat behind the shield wall of nuclear power but that will only stop them losing ground. They can’t win ground that way or the capitulation would never end. So I’m skeptical. Even as some kind of negotiating tactic it seems more suited to harden Europe against Putin then deliver relief.