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  1. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    29 January 2026 - 11:39 PM

    View PostAzath Vitr (D, on 29 January 2026 - 04:22 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.




    This sounds a lot like Ebola. Very contagious if you come into direct contact with it but it's not airborne and the timeline between being contagious and being too sick to move is so short that it's not very likely someone can unknowingly reach an international hub while shedding.

  2. In Topic: The USA Politics Thread

    26 January 2026 - 09:28 PM

    View PostTiste Simeon, on 26 January 2026 - 07:27 PM, said:

    "Biden beat Trump, lets try that again!"

    That's the most likely Democrat plan...



    Of course they have a plan. They saw Zohran Mamdani win an important race by speaking from a leftist perspective to issues important to his electorate, so the party machinery will do everything in the power to prevent that kind of thing happening more widely.

  3. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    26 January 2026 - 03:17 PM

    View PostBK (NTS no politics), on 26 January 2026 - 03:07 AM, said:

    Hmm I actually never paid attention to that but I now see what you’re talking about. Maybe Changes had a dual meaning?



    The opposite in fact I'd say- Changes just does exactly what it says on the tin and even the title signals its departure from series norms.



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    Is he the new Sanderson super book puter outer???



    Like a slower Adrian Tchaikovsky, you mean?

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    25 January 2026 - 09:04 PM

    View PostTsundoku, on 25 January 2026 - 02:13 PM, said:

    1. There's a pattern to the Dresden titles. Two words, both the same amount of characters. Storm Front (5,5). Fool Moon (4,4). Ghost Story (5,5). Battle Ground (6,6). Etc.
    The last one you listed doesn't fit that pattern, and I was wondering why.


    The last three won't strictly be 'Files', is partly why. Also, he's broken the pattern before in Changes. And technically in book 10, but that was by accident coz he can no write English good.

  5. In Topic: Twelve Months: the spoilers thread

    23 January 2026 - 12:12 PM

    View PostChance, on 23 January 2026 - 12:45 AM, said:

    I think the ghoul "plot" and "final" battle was Butcher feeling like he had to have at least three conflict in his formula for the books, they where basically action filler thought the final battle was a way for Butcher to show how dangerous Dresden is right now.





    I will say I suspect the Ghoul thing is, in part, a long-term play. A reminder at this point in the series that Dresden and Ghouls have beef, for a more central conflict coming soon.

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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2025 - 07:50
    happy 39th
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2024 - 09:29
    happy #38
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2023 - 09:51
    happy birthday PG
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    Tsundoku 

    21 Jul 2021 - 20:03
    35!
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2020 - 07:25
    And again. Hope it's a good one.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2019 - 08:30
    Ermagerd, another year rolls around. Happy birthday.
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    Tsundoku 

    22 Jul 2018 - 00:29
    Happy beerthday
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