Global health officials continue to press Moscow for full transparency

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating reports of a second possible pneumonic plague case in Siberia after the death of a laboratory worker who was allegedly exposed to the illness.

Global health officials are pushing Moscow for transparency following the death of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov.

Shipilova was admitted to hospital late last month with acute respiratory failure and placed on a ventilator before passing away on 2 October.

Local media reported that she was exposed to a dangerous pathogen after accidentally shattering a sample tube during routine laboratory work.

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[–] 1 point 44 minutes ago

WHO to investigate

Can already tell you the results

Right now- It's not from Russia, nothing is wrong, there is no plague

~2 months - It's not from Russia, even if it was, there is no human to human transmission, everything is fine.

~4 months - It could possibly be from Russia, but it's not from a lab, there is only limited human to human transmission, everything is fine

~6 months - Why didn't you listen to us for the last 6 months, there is a global pandemic and it's not Russia's fault, we told you about human to human transmission 6 months ago why didn't you listen?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    This shit makes Covid look like a vacation.

    Treatment needed within 24 hours. 100% mortality without treatment.

    It will be contained, as it has been several times in the recent past, but imagine if we were in the middle of WWIII and our ability to respond was much lower. It could wipe out millions.

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    Fun! Sounds like we’re already screwed.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 hours ago (18 children)

    Funny story, there is this Tankie going around pretending to be a concerned US Citizen @localareaman@lemmy.world who was just asking me a little bit ago if there was anybody affected outside of the lab, in some depraved defence of Vladimir Putin.

    Fuckin Tankies, man.

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    People who are politically aligned with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, etc.

    They claim there are no genocides in China, that Ukraine was invaded because Russia had to fight off Nazis, that the best democracy on earth is North Korea (which they sometimes don't even call North Korea because they believe South Korea belongs to North Korea which would just make it one Korea), and that the USA is (and has always been) an evil empire and that NATO states are all dictatorship puppet states.

    They oppose Trans Rights, Homosexuality, bodily autonomy, and most human liberties, and in fact they will outright tell you that Liberals (not any individual party but the actual definition of the word) are their enemies.

    They have a strong presence on the fediverse because the Lemmy platform is developed by them and any donations to the work goes towards paying the Tankie lead developers and funding their instances: Lemmy_ml, Hexbear_net, Lemmygrad_ml

    You can read the megathread documenting their extremism over here:

    https://feddit.online/post/593416

    On the comm: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

    Though, it could probably use some updates.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours ago

    Tankie's are purportedly communist but tools of Russia and China. Both countries that would send them into the gulag or re-education for talking that same shit in their countries.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    I remember when tankie just meant communist.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    I think it was coined when the USSR used Tanks to suppress protests in Hungaria in 1956, further solidified when China used Tanks to commit a massacre in 1989 protests most notably Tiananmen Square which was broadcast live to the entire world at the time.

    So, no, it never described "real" communists. Just dictatorship advocates.

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  • [+] -7 points 9 hours ago

    Weird how '56 Budapest never came up ever.

    "Communist" was also a meaningless pejorative until an entire generation aged out, along with their tired Cold War McCarthyist bullshit.

    You're just a propagandist with absolutely no substance.

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  • [+] -12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

    Someone to the left of Reagan

    Wow people here hate the truth

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  • [–] 10 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    Tankies love authoritarians that pretend to have a left-wing economy. They're not really left-wing.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Yet it's literally only used to attack people on the left of Reagan. Person who started this thread will literally call people who want healthcare better than Romneycare in America tankies for wanting improvements more than ACA.

    Hell we're honest at the point Reagan could be running and would get called a tankie that's how little it means these days

    $5 says they call me one soon while ignoring everything else.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    It's really not.

    Almost the entirety of lemmy is left of Reagan. It honestly hilarious you're making this argument here...are you new to this site?

    Tankies are a small minority of angry little authoritarian boot lickers that pretend Stalin did nothing wrong, while condemning the west for some of the exact same actions.

    The label has nothing to do with their economic positions and everything to do with the delusional alt history dictator public fellating they do.

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  • [+] -6 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Almost the entirety of lemmy is left of Reagan. It honestly hilarious you're making this argument here...are you new to this site?

    If only that were true, and I'm literally describing experience on lemmy and piefed.

    The label has been absolutely abused to not mean that at all anymore which is my entire point

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  • [+] -7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    If you don't count all those people dropping dead, there are almost no cases at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    Restrict russian travelers early on please. No harm done if this blows over.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    "The situation is going entirely as planned under control."

    ( /s + /tinfoilposting for those of us that require it)

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