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T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Lmao what's wrong, there wasn't a gay trans Muslim poc genderqueer to Install vote in to speak for the common man?

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T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
DNC corrupt? So what.

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

R-Type posted:

No. Dream on son.

Are you kidding? I would've voted for him.

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Democrats are weak, out of touch, ineffectual cowards who couldn't win a grade school class presidential race with 100 million dollars, holy poo poo lmao ad infinitum

Just lol if you're a Democrat or identify as one

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Heh, you're a racist sexist bigot if you don't vote for the candidate we decided to do you the favor of selecting, scum. Man I loving detest the uneducated poor, especially whites because we can't use them to advance our agenda or call people racist for not voting for us. *loses catastrophically on election day*

WHAT HAPPENED????

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Ron Darling posted:

i too would love the republicans to remain in power in perpetuity

Apparently so would the DNC lmao

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

COMRADES posted:

The Democrat Party needs to reform or die.

Don't worry, it's definitely dying

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Barbara Birke remained alert and conscious nearly up to the end, which came four days after the first signs of rash appeared on her body. For some reason, variola leaves its victims in a state of wakefulness. They see and feel everything that’s happening. In the final twenty-four hours, people with hemorrhagic smallpox will develop a pattern of shallow, almost imperceptible breaths, followed by a deep intake and exhalation, then more shallow breaths. This is known as Cheyne-Stokes breathing, and it can indicate bleeding in the brain. She prayed, and the nuns stayed with her. The Benedictine priest, Father Kunibert, who had offered communion to Peter Los, ended up at Wimbern himself with a mild case of smallpox. He may have given Birke her last rites. As the end approaches, the smallpox victim can remain conscious, in a kind of frozen awareness—“a peculiar state of apprehension and mental alertness that were said to be unlike the manifestations of any other disease,” in the words of the Big Red Book. As the cytokine storm devolves into chaos, the breathing may end with a sigh.

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
In confluent-type ordinary smallpox, which Los had, the blisters merge into sheets, and it is typically fatal. Finally, there is hemorrhagic smallpox, in which bleeding occurs in the skin. Hemorrhagic smallpox is virtually one hundred percent fatal. The most extreme type is flat hemorrhagic smallpox, in which the skin does not blister but remains smooth. It darkens until it can look charred, and it can slip off the body in sheets. Doctors in the old days used to call it black pox. Hemorrhagic smallpox seems to occur in about three to twenty-five percent of the fatal cases, depending on how hot or virulent the strain of smallpox is. For some reason black pox is more common in teenagers.The rims of Barbara Birke’s eyelids became wet with blood, while the whites of her eyes turned ruby red and swelled out in rings around the corneas. Dr. William Osler, in a study of black-pox cases at the Montreal General Hospital that he saw in 1875, noted that “the corneas appear sunk in dark red pits, giving to the patient a frightful appearance.”

T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
By dawn on Thursday, January 15th, his body had become a mass of knob-like blisters. They were everywhere, all over, even on his private parts, but they were clustered most thickly on his face and extremities. This is known as the centrifugal rash of smallpox. It looks as if some force at the center of the body is driving the rash out toward the face, hands, and feet. The inside of his mouth and ear canals and sinuses had pustulated, and the lining of the rectum may also have pustulated, as it will do in severe cases. Yet his mind was clear. When he coughed or tried to move, it felt as if his skin were pulling off his body, that it would split or rupture. The blisters were hard and dry, and they didn’t leak. They were like ball bearings embedded in the skin, with a soft, velvety feel on the surface. Each pustule had a dimple in the center. They were pressurized with an opalescent pus.



VACCINES BAD, I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS OKAY

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T.S. Smelliot
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Antivaxxers are loving scum, full stop

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