Fuzzy Mammal posted:

cwhfs: walking around the lake in the sunshine

Bloody posted:

The Management posted:

lol my parents are going to die

PIZZA.BAT posted:

not gonna lie this poo poo is starting to look scary and a lot of my coworkers are in the 55+ bracket. i don’t think we’re getting through this without losing one or two people :/

ShadowHawk posted:

"Voluntary WFH" and I was gonna still go into office today

Got paged out of bed at 11am and took until 9pm to resolve it

Will attempt to not WFH tomorrow

echinopsis posted:

lol

imagine if my country closed its borders? we have less than ten confirmed cases. we could have even kept it lower

but no. aggressive boards of cash won’t let no lame rear end disease stop us. nz bows down to eat china’s rear end there ain’t no way we’re gonna do anything but open armed gently caress every diseased guest that comes onto our shores

echinopsis posted:

the antibodies we create that recognise pathogens require unique antigens to identify. once our immune system can identify an antigen it can usually take care of it very well

our immune system is mental. it was described in university as something like a random protein generator and those proteins will “stick” to things and are antibodies and they act like tags for other immune cells to swallow up. it was described as if the protein stuck to our own cells it could tell so it didn’t use them (this always felt like an obscene simplification when it was taught) that’s what an autoimmune disorder is, where our immune system tags our own cells for destruction. it’s possible type 1 diabetes results from the body creating antibodies for some kind of virus and those antibodies also bind to the beta cells in the pancreas so that the immune system attacks the beta cells thinking it’s a virus. it’s possible we will be able to immunise against this in the future

rheumatic fever can lead to a similar situation there the antibodies will bind to cells in the heart (to do with the valves?) and so the immune system will attack the heart so that’s why you get this weird situation where rheumatic fever leading to CV problems

the H and N in flu strands like H1N1 represent the two most common antigen families expressed on the flu virus, although they aren’t the only ones

I’m not sure why some immune responses last longer than other though. why we can give the immune system dead cells for some things and live attenuated for others

and it’s also worth nothing most viruses don’t target all our cells but just a limited number. things like coronavirus attack the respiratory cells.

measles is nasty because it attacks our immune cells itself and is one of the worst viruses because it can “erase” some or all of your immune “memory”


most common cold are either rhinovirus or coronavirus. why this one in particular is much more deadly is something I’d like to understand


also sometimes in healthy people we can get situations where our cells lyse and release huge volumes of viral particles into our body and our immune system sees this as an extreme attack and can have something called a “cytokine storm” and lead to shock and this is how you get very healthy people dying of flu, different to vulnerable people dying from respiratory failure from the flu


just some ill-remembered info for ya. it’s probably all wrong now

SmokaDustbowl posted:

wash your hands before you hit the report button

Progressive JPEG posted:

how many times have you been on country calendar?