PurpleXVI posted:

How the gently caress would you still marry someone who did that to you and still associate with anyone else in on the "gag"? That's a prime loving moment right there.

chitoryu12 posted:

According to the last line, he's decided to find some way to get revenge on his friends' weddings. I can't imagine what worse thing he's going to do.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

quote:

The causative agent for shingles is the varicella zoster virus (VZV) – a double-stranded DNA virus related to the herpes simplex virus. Most individuals are infected with this virus as children which causes an episode of chickenpox. The immune system eventually eliminates the virus from most locations, but it remains dormant (or latent) in the ganglia adjacent to the spinal cord (called the dorsal root ganglion) or the trigeminal ganglion in the base of the skull.[30]

Shingles occurs only in people who have been previously infected with VZV; although it can occur at any age, approximately half of the cases in the United States occur in those aged 50 years or older.[31] Repeated attacks of shingles are rare,[17] and it is extremely rare for a person to have more than three recurrences.[30]

The disease results from virus particles in a single sensory ganglion switching from their latent lysogenic cycles to their active lytic cycles.[32] In contrast to the herpes simplex virus, the latency of VZV is poorly understood. The virus has never been successfully recovered from human nerve cells by cell culture. Virus-specific proteins continue to be made by the infected cells during the latent period, so true latency, as opposed to chronic, low-level, active infection, has not been proven to occur in VZV infections.[33][34] Although VZV has been detected in autopsies of nervous tissue,[35] there are no methods to find dormant virus in the ganglia of living people.

Unless the immune system is compromised, it suppresses reactivation of the virus and prevents shingles outbreaks. Why this suppression sometimes fails is poorly understood,[36] but shingles is more likely to occur in people whose immune systems are impaired due to aging, immunosuppressive therapy, psychological stress, or other factors.[37][38] Upon reactivation, the virus replicates in neuronal cell bodies, and virions are shed from the cells and carried down the axons to the area of skin innervated by that ganglion. In the skin, the virus causes local inflammation and blistering. The short- and long-term pain caused by shingles outbreaks originates from inflammation of affected nerves due to the widespread growth of the virus in those areas.[39]

As with chickenpox and other forms of alpha-herpesvirus infection, direct contact with an active rash can spread the virus to a person who lacks immunity to it. This newly infected individual may then develop chickenpox, but will not immediately develop shingles.[17]

Collapsing Farts posted:

Abloo abloo I was calling out someones BS and then said that punching a guy was stupid. I didn't know he was a nazi. I literally in the same post said that they should focus on punchis nazis instead

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Oof, LoB, maybe something a little more light than terfery?

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Oof, LoB, maybe something a little more light than terfery?

Katt posted:

Nature is messed up.

AlbieQuirky posted:

The way TERFs get all Witchfinder General about any lady who is over 5’4” and angular is extremely Idiot on Social Media.

RoboRodent posted:

Chicken pox is kind of horrifying, even for a herpes virus, and I fully support stressing the "the virus inserts its genome into your nerve cells and then goes dormant for years while your cells dutifully replicate the viral DNA as they multiply until years later, when everything wakes up and goes to town and if it's on the wrong part of your body you can easily lose an eye" bit until maybe people clue into, oh yeah maybe this harmless childhood disease is a thing we should vaccinate against.

Related hypothesis: a casual survey of friends and acquaintances suggests to me that most people who have had chicken pox were too young to remember it much. I was five, I remember it, and it loving sucked.

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

I am well aware, but FART s and their rhetoric can be upaettingly exhausting, especially when they're particularly active.

Byzantine posted:

I had shingles at 22. It was the most miserable, painful thing ive ever experienced and i basically live in the dread knowledge that it will flare up again.

RoboRodent posted:

Chicken pox is kind of horrifying, even for a herpes virus, and I fully support stressing the "the virus inserts its genome into your nerve cells and then goes dormant for years while your cells dutifully replicate the viral DNA as they multiply until years later, when everything wakes up and goes to town and if it's on the wrong part of your body you can easily lose an eye" bit until maybe people clue into, oh yeah maybe this harmless childhood disease is a thing we should vaccinate against.

Related hypothesis: a casual survey of friends and acquaintances suggests to me that most people who have had chicken pox were too young to remember it much. I was five, I remember it, and it loving sucked.

PurpleXVI posted:

How the gently caress would you still marry someone who did that to you and still associate with anyone else in on the "gag"? That's a prime loving moment right there.

RoboRodent posted:

Chicken pox is kind of horrifying, even for a herpes virus, and I fully support stressing the "the virus inserts its genome into your nerve cells and then goes dormant for years while your cells dutifully replicate the viral DNA as they multiply until years later, when everything wakes up and goes to town and if it's on the wrong part of your body you can easily lose an eye" bit until maybe people clue into, oh yeah maybe this harmless childhood disease is a thing we should vaccinate against.

Related hypothesis: a casual survey of friends and acquaintances suggests to me that most people who have had chicken pox were too young to remember it much. I was five, I remember it, and it loving sucked.

Collapsing Farts posted:

I'm not American so I have no stakes in your stupid country

Zesty posted:

Boy howdy do you have no idea how the world works.

RoboRodent posted:

Chicken pox is kind of horrifying, even for a herpes virus, and I fully support stressing the "the virus inserts its genome into your nerve cells and then goes dormant for years while your cells dutifully replicate the viral DNA as they multiply until years later, when everything wakes up and goes to town and if it's on the wrong part of your body you can easily lose an eye" bit until maybe people clue into, oh yeah maybe this harmless childhood disease is a thing we should vaccinate against.

Related hypothesis: a casual survey of friends and acquaintances suggests to me that most people who have had chicken pox were too young to remember it much. I was five, I remember it, and it loving sucked.

Skwirl posted:

I can't imagine how America's decision have any impact on people in other countries *surrounded by a half million Iraqi ghosts*

PurpleXVI posted:

How the gently caress would you still marry someone who did that to you and still associate with anyone else in on the "gag"? That's a prime loving moment right there.

Kai Tave posted:

In a twist nobody could have seen coming, it turns out the poster with over a dozen probations for being a huge idiot is actually a huge idiot.