Okay So For Those Either Too Young To Remember Or Who Were Alive During But It Never Really Affected

Okay so for those either too young to remember or who were alive during but it never really affected them based on where they lived, Mad Cow Disease

Mad Cow Disease was thing in the late 80′s and the entire 90′s, all the way to early 00′s and it was an international scare. Like, we had disinfecting stations on international airports because of it.

It was a virus passed from animals to humans and this didn’t happen somewhere random in Asia, where, idk, bats and pigs interact and infect the food chain, but in Europe. In UK to be precise.

It affected only cows at first and only agriculture paid any attention, since any animal infected needed to be put down. Like no shit, those animals couldn’t even walk with how bad they were shaking and if you want to google this, be prepared. It doesn’t look nice, it looks ugly and horrifying and it will likely traumatize someone.

And the mode of transfer was not evident. There are videos and photos, showing cow carcasses being burned and someone trying to claim that was early days but that was very much not the reality in the beginning. In fact, all the research showed it is not possible for Mad Cow Disease to infect humans. In fact2, a similar disease was already known in lambs for decades and that one could not infect humans, so it was a no brainer to say, a similar disease in cows can also NEVER infect humans, so no precautions with the carcass needed.

But the thing is, how we processed meat had changed drastically between the lambs being a stable, grown at home meat, and then cows, or beef, becoming dominant with supermarkets. This is basically the “you see this, this is animal paste from a teletubby machine” video, except the paste wasn’t fed to humans. It’s known as meat and bone meal and it was all the leftover stuff from abattoirs, ground up and fed back to the animals as valuable protein.

You might see where this is going.

So let’s talk about prion diseases.

Well, as much as I, a random person know about them. Prions are proteins and proteins are not DNA or RNA, which are most likely familiar to anyone who has googled Covid, or any novel corona viruses in general. They’re the viruses a vaccine is made for.

Prion diseases are, in fact, mostly known because of cannibalism. Kuru is a famous disease among one specific tribe on Pacific Islands, caused by their tradition of consuming their relatives flesh after death. In fact, I just fact checked on which ocean and was told that the Kuru was mainly affecting kids and women because the men ate limbs and muscles and women and kids got the brain and basically all the best, fatty parts. Which, ironically, carried the disease.

And yes, in any survivalist culture fat, innards, and cartilage and the “bad parts” are the best because they contain the most nutrients so no, you do no get to twist this into the men taking the best, so fuck of terfs. This post is not for you.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease was already known by the time of Mad Cow Disease, it was a brain destroying disease affecting the elderly population. Mad Cow became variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or vCJD and was picked up because it mainly affected the young.

And in case you didn’t get it already, the link was infected cow carcasses being processed to meat and bone meal to be fed back to cows, because infected prion diseases spread through cannibalism. Or more specifically, spine and brain stem.

(so you’re relatively safe eating just the thigh or any muscle tbh)

So in the end, Mad Cow Disease didn’t kill that many people, only few hundreds, if I recall correctly.

But the thing that was found out about the prion diseases because of Kuru was that while some people exhibited symptoms and died really early, most had an incubation period of DECADES, aka 50 years. So the inevitable conclusion about vCJD is that it has only claimed it’s first victims and that majority are still waiting to appear and die.

Because the thing about prion diseases? There is currently no cure. And the fact that no one seems to remember this and that there is no awareness of it is not helping.

dumb question

i have these nice pearl necklaces i got from an antique shop (they were four dollars for BOTH and i'm pretty sure the one necklace i got is real and not artifical too so that's neat) and i am in LOVE with them because of what signifigance pearls have for me religiously (and i also just like pearls) i put them on my aphrodite bust as sort of like an offering because it's been way too long since i've given her one, and like now i'm thinking if i wear them again am i going to make her mad

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aphrodite hellenism help me out i've been a pagan for two years and i'm still clueless

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

(hope this helps some ppl)

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

she yearns for the tub water. disgusting.

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aelfith

1 week ago

I’m a lesbian but whenever theres a middle aged slightly disturbed slightly nerdy gay guy in media I fold. they would not like me and I would not like them but theres just something there. maybe in another life we could get lavender married and start a beautiful family.

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real shit though barrow is kind of a dick but like i love him what can i say as a fellow lesbian

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

People are disturbed by cwd spreading to humans right

But what about scrapie. The sheep version. Where they compulsively scrape up against anything in sight to the point of scraping away their wool.

Imagine that but people

You go into a hospital, youre a doctor. Youve been called to an influx of people with the same symptoms and they believe your expertise will be able to help.

People are scared and confused.

The patients are scared and confused.

You show up. And you see the patients rubbing up against walls and medical equipment and any surface they can get to, some had scrapes and grazes from dragging their flesh upon concrete walls, some had blistered and rashes. And some were so far gone that they had rubbed away chunks of their own skin leaving lesions and exposed flesh in their wake. They seem unbalanced, they cant help but smack their lips, theyre biting and scratching at their own skin near constantly if they arent scraping it away. You look at the walls and see blood rubbed off on them. You're stumped. You cant get them to stop. You keep trying but they just wont quit. They all have this look in their eyes that shows their fear and delirium. They stumble and cant stand on their own, and one by one they perish. In about a week, most of them are dead, by the next, the remaining follow suite.

You conduct an autopsy and nothing appears off, you check for fungi and bacteria and viruses but nothing appears ary.

Until you cut open their head and see the thousands of spongey holes punched through one of their brains that you finally understand what befell them.

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aelfith

1 week ago

I can't because i love thomas so much

i was like "THIS SHOW SOUNDS LIKE SHITTTT BORINGGG BOOOO" but like i can understand rhe demographic

thomas is like my son idk what to tell you guys

i am starting season six and have watched none of the movies and if he dies i die

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thomas downton abbey barrow thomas barrow downton rob james collier what would rob say “Are you fucking insane” He'd be right I have this massive fanfic i've written over the month Gods if you can hear me i'm sorry i'm insane

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

Do you like goats?

please join my community https://www.tumblr.com/communities/goat-adoration

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goat

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

Don't Fall for this scam.

Transgender community, please please please do NOT use this product! It will kill you if used, please do not use it whatsoever.

Please reblog and spread the word

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aelfith

2 weeks ago

People are so desperate for LGBT representation, (specifically gay and lesbian couples), that they're willing to accept literally any homosexual ship regardless of the concerning elements.

Let's see, we have ass ships like

1)Stolitz - Stolas is an abuser, a r*pist, a racist man who has so many powers yet is emotionally fragile, passive and wimpy, a man who victimizes himself over and over, a man who emotionally neglects the child who desperately needs him for his sexual fantasies with his victim, a man who is the creator's pet, a man whose actions aren't wrong according to the writers, a man who can just blame everyone else around him but himself with no consequences

2) Catradora - Catra is an abuser too, but was treated like a cute kitty cat in s5 despite having done atrocious things, she was instantly forgiven with no consequences, and she ended up dating her sister and the biggest victim of her abuse

3) Huskerdust - I haven't talked about this one so far, but Angel sexually harassed Husk and never apologized, Husk himself sang "Loser, Baby" and as a SA survivor I felt like he was trying to say this to Angel: "Oh, you've hit rock bottom because of SA? It's your fault lol, accept that you're a whiny bitch and a loser even tho the problem is extremely serious and out of your control and just suck it up, I'm a loser too despite not going through the same thing you have, you're not alone in being a loser BUT YOU ARE STILL A LOSER BABYYY A LOOOSER" Like, ik the message was supposed to be how we're not alone in our struggles and how there's always someone who will understand and make us feel less alone, but the way this was handled rubbed me the wrong way. Also, I'm not sure whether or not to mention this as well (screw it, I will), but Husk is described as "the old bartender," his voice sounds like it belongs to an old dude too, and he apparently died when he was like, 70, while Angel died in his 30's. I'm not gonna calculate their ages based on how it works in Hell because personally I feel like it doesn't matter. What matters is how old they were when they were alive. But however you decide to look at their ages, it's not just the implied enormous age gap that bothers me, no... it's more so the difference in maturity between Husk and Angel. Husk is described as a dude who has seen and experienced a lot of stuff. On the other hand, Angel is clearly immature and there is this weird... emotional imbalance between them? It's like a mentor dating his apprentice, at least that's how I see it. I'm not saying dating someone who's 40 years older than you is morally wrong (if you're both adults) but IT IS WEIRD imo, especially since Angel & Husk are not on the same page when it comes to life experience and maturity. Oh yeah, I also don't think Angel should be in any kind of romantic relationship... for his own good

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