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This is one of the stranger mushrooms in my garden, the cup starts empty and they lays silver eggs inside. It likes to grow under Malva neglecta (good vegetable for soup and oatmeal) Tiny fuckers, just 5-8 mm in diameter. I almost hope it doesnt have a use, it'd be a bitch collecting enough to eat or to cure nipple fungus or whatever.

The prayer made it even more poignant. 'dear god may we all have the freedom to do what our conscience says and pray in our own way and let us love eachother and be friendly' 'hey you, you bastard, your not loving me and your not praying in my way, get the fuck out'

Americans are pretty schizophrenic on this one. In some cases, like above, adults are punished for not bowing to the state and its religion, in other cases everyone is given a defended right to choose. I remember when I was in the second grade we were about to start the pledge of alleigence, I asked the teacher why we were required to do this thing. She kind of blinked and then very clearly said each student can choose for themselves and if they dont want to they can just sit quietly for the few moments. Funny how the more enlightened people are perfectly willing to give a six year old more freedom than some politicians want to give adults.

lmao Thanks for the ident

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Its always just around the corner for folks who want to see it around the corner Reminds me of a homeless guy in california, walking around with a "The End Is NEIGH" sign. He got hit by a truck. He was right.

Looks like, if that trend continues for a bit, it'll explode out of control just as the north goes into its flu season. That'll be a fucking mess.

The wrong way to clone Pereskiopsis

That might work, ginger tea is popular with asians in my town for that. I've always preferred crystalized ginger because it hits so much faster.

ORT, oral rehydration therapy. The above in the correct proportions makes a effective rehydration beverage that can radically reduce death rate from fluid loss conditions as severe as cholera. There are other recipes, of course, the above is just the ingredients for the WHO's recommended baseline formulation. The next step up includes citric acid or citrate. *gets recipe* Hmm, seems bicarbonate inclusion is inadvisibe if theres vomiting. Its good to avoid table sugar if glucose or corn syrup is available. The osmotic pressure is important. When crapping out buckets and bleeding from the eyes and trying to formulate ORT from available materials you'll understand what your algebra teacher meant when she said you'll need an easy proficiency in basic math one day

Not a 'dream' but a very rare thing for me, after waking up I had clear hypnogogic closed eyed visuals of morphing geometric shapes made from rainbows. I didnt want to get out of bed, lol Are there any oneirogen type plants that can be used to cause that intentionally? (dont say mescaline )

Now a highly infectious man in the early stages of ebola is being flown to the center of London as well. Is it just me or is the global responce to ebola being run by the king of imbiciles? Its very well established that current practices do not prevent medical staff from getting infected and spreading it around, so what moron got the idea 'oh, lets fly these fountains of imminent death to every major city on the planet'? First of all, what makes a certain racially/politically distinctive nurse so much better than black african men and women that a government would spend millions and risk their entire population just to hypothetically marginally ingrease his chance of survival? And why in the hell plop the infectious down in cities of millions? If nations or the WHO really need super advanced research hospitals to treat their racially preferred plague victims why arent hospitals set up on remote islands?

I'll play Had a somewhat odd one, I was outside next to a building in trees and grass and stuff, I came around upon the outside of a messy room walled entirely of glass with me inside, locked in. I thought it was odd seeing me but instead of going lucid right there I thought 'hey, if thats me I'll let me out'. I pulled out a pane of the clear glass and it was a mirror on the inside, all of them were. Then the me on the inside looked over and saw the me on the outside and I woke up. I'm sure a psychologist would love that one.

I always expected the epidemic to be as much as ten times whats reported. Even in a much more developed country not everyone who gets sick goes to the hospital and is correctly diagnosed. As with these sorts of things I also expect the fatality rate is overestimated as, generally, in epidemics of rare diseases only serious cases get clinically diagnosed. At the start when they only diagnosed the dieing lethality was "90%" now that theyre more used to seeing it around and can identify it when its only serious lethality is "60%". Will it level out at 20% or 40%? Same happened with some flus, they only clinically diagnosed it in corpses and were like "holy shit, its 100% lethal" but then when they tested living people it was more like "woops, we meant 6%" Be careful reading fox news, theyre notoriously inaccurate and a well known political propaganda engine for a major US party. Going to fox news for news is as dubious as going to yahoo answers for anything resembling coherent and rational information

I like how one cactus wears a wrist watch. I'd love to see one in a sports bra

If IV isnt available it would be vastly better than nothing at all, thats for sure. And its something people can piece together far in advance. Salt, imitation salt, baking soda, and glucose or corn syrup at the simplest.

I had been thinking astragalus at least for pre-exposure up into onset of serious symptoms, as its a immune adaptogen and interferon inducent. Withania would likely be on that list too. I like the idea of medicines and techniques to balance and strengthen the immune system before getting sick. For our older members I recently read a couple studies on prolonged fasting to 'rejuvinate' the immune system. Basically nothing but water for 3 days, when the system goes fully catabolic the body 'eats' old immune cells and when the subject eats food again the immune system is rebuilt from stem cells to more youthful cells in a more youthful ratio. (One trial tossed in chemo at the tail end of the fast and the peoples immune system rebounded faster that unfasted controls). Massage is a good way to keep lymph circulating if you cant go out for walks/runs/rides. Anyway.. I have yet to see a tree that grows colloidal silver, if you have seeds let me know ;) Olive leaf extract might get dangerous quick once bleeding started, as its hypotensive. When you said incense my first thought was esphand. Its a classic and cheap antiviral/antimicrobial/antiprotozoal/insecticide fumigant. Lately over here sandstorms have been giving people valley fever, a nasty fungal lung infection that kills old people. Esphand would be the blatantly obvious countermeasure in persia but the CDC wont even consider it because its 'alternative'. Their helpful solution is "hope you dont die". So yeah, if ebola comes here visitors will be met by a wall of esphand smoke to partially sterilize all their sweat droplets. The best way, but good luck with doing that safely when the hospitals are death traps and no IV drip bags are for sale. ORT is the safest low tech way. Most stable too. Thats why its the standard in cholera epidemics even if IV is "best". gyah, quotes are harder to edit these days, lol

I did some questionable shit as a teen, but stealing ebola contaminated bedding has to be some sort of a record in teen stupidity.

Nice cactus, it'll be interesting to compare spination in a dozen of the F2's

Interesting. A bit misleading calling them "Vajrayana and Theravada styles of meditation" tho. There are many common theravada meditations quite a lot like vajrayana visualization exercises. Its not all samatha/vipassana. I expect the reverse is also true.

Interesting, I'd only heard of it as a medicine for lowering blood pressure. I wonder if the hypotensive effect would need to be watched in antiviral doses.

Good point on the aspirin and booze, same for fish and flax oils- many people use them for hyperlipidemia, etc. but they thin blood too. I'm not sure what non-opioid herbal replacement to aspirin/paracetmol would be good. Medicinal grade yellow chrysanthemum is used for fevery headaches in the early stage of upper respiratory infection. Its also said prolonged use will help slow greying of hair, if you want some optimism for when lying there with ebola

Yup, compared to the baseline of "a list of substance use disorder treatment options and resources to use" there isnt much someone can say in 30 minutes that an addict hasnt considered already. Long term support can have a cumulative effect but even then its up to the user to decide to quit. What people dont want to face is the systemic problems in society that lead to drug abuse, sex abuse, food abuse, etc.

Some advice wasnt horrible. Maintaining good health in general to better deal with what comes is good advice most people dont heed. Most people (or americans, at least) eat shit and live on the couch (wrongly) expecting a hospital can cure any bad that comes, thats bad preparedness. Knowing at least a little bit about medicine and having more than 3 days food in the house is also good advice most people dont heed. Dude was right that some people would begin starving by day 5 of a serious disruption. Looking to zombie apocalypse films for real world scenarios about how to deal with crisis... ok, not so useful At any given time I have a minimum of a months food on hand, not out of fear of zombie apocalypse but because I buy whole food in animal feed sacks. I just looked and since I'm freshly restocked I have over 2 months food on hand. I also grow an assortment of medicines. While I dont know how helpful any of them might be against ebola- just by growing, and thus by necessity studying, a few medicines I'd have more of an idea what to do in a epidemic, and more of an idea how to improvise. Ebola may hit the US, but we have the infrastructure to contain it better- not fully by any stretch, but better. So here ebola may kill a thousand. But, if it does, fear and ignorance will kill 5,000.

Oh shit. There he goes again...