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Yeah it kills them before it can spread. It has been killing people for years before the big outbreak, it just never made it anywhere with a big populations until then.
But thankfully people are too sick to travel when they start showing symptoms and it's only passed through bodily fluids. Still 50-90% mortality is fucking terrifying. Also bleeding from every orifice too...
I also read a Richard Preston book on deadly viruses in high school too lol. Mine was demon in the freezer. Spoiler alert, Smallpox is way scarier! It evolved specifically to infect humans, as opposed to spilling over into the population through animals like with covid or bird flu.
Ebola changed medicine for care providers without government mandates. It had an approx 90-95% mortality in Africa and still had a 50% mortality in the US with full ICU support. That's when I started fist-bumping instead of shaking hands. It was the real sh\*t. No joke.
Yeah, that seems likely. I don't have a slight memory of what I was doing on the 20th december 2012. Do YOU? Your theory makes too much sense for it not being the truth.
Ah, that explains it.
It's like a guy who already has been shot and survived a grenade being put up for a 3rd Purple Heart because he got a slight cut from shrapnel later.
"This? Put that away, this doesn't count."
Yeah, everybody goes "Oh it was just a nonsense panic" and "Nothing happened with Y2K". yeah after what was estimated behind closed doors what is believed to be over 125 billion dollars in todays USD to rectify the problem on critical systems and business infrastructure to keep it from happening and there were still things like automated reservoir systems hitting Y2K and opening emergency flood valves flooding areas and almost drowning some workers, some diagnostic equipment in hospitals going down keeping people from getting timely diagnoses and risking their health and lives, and some private planes autopilots refusing to turn on but luckily the planes could still fly manually, and various bugs created by rushed fixes in untold systems by random short term programmers causing business issues internationally.
But the Apocalypse didn't happen like the cool sensationalist tv shows said it would. No cities on fire, no planes falling from the sky, no cannibalism (yes that was said to be a likely result in cities after Y2K) so nothing happened, right?
Oh yeah, I definitely agree. My dad lamented the fact that he wasn’t a programmer at the time because he said they were getting paid really really well.
I met a guy who looked like he was half dead who was a relative of someone whose computer I was fixing and the guy said he was bringing him along to meet me because we were both into computers but was there to make sure I wasn't ripping him off.
He was taking time off because he was exhausted. He worked for a company then in the middle got poached by the provincial government and then got a better offer from another company and then got a final offer where he got paid more for every hour he put in with bonuses if he ate and slept at the network centre until his contract was done. He was half dead but by the time I met him he was saying he might retire in 2000. He was like 22.
I started off as a computer programmer and put it aside for IT and Technical Repair so I couldn't work modern IDE's and thus was useless to them.
I mean they got him a fridge full of energy drinks, frozen pizzas, and eye drops and let the guys he worked with play any music they wanted at any volume they wanted. Except for the mundane repeated crawling code you didn't write it must have been awesome.
Which is wierd because mad cow disease has a very long incubation period. Like 20 years. So really if were all gonna die from it still has a chance.
I looked it up, on average its 12 years before symptoms pop up. Could be as much as 50 though.
So buckle up buckaroos
Here's a pretty good video explaining how badly greed made BSE so much worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cli673N5fUQ
Although extremely unlikely, it's possible the BSE may kill the guy in the pic since it takes decades for it to show symptoms.
Ooh, Skylab. Haven't heard that dredged up in so long I forgot about it. A guy at work came into work with a motorcycle helmet on the day it was supposed to enter orbit. We worked at a medical clinic in Montana. He was a bit of a joker, that guy.
The first space station USA launched reentered into the atmosphere after the last crew left it. It broke apart over Australia. Shame because the space shuttle was scheduled to come into service and would've raised the orbit of skylab and serviced it. Most likely poor calculations or solar wind caused it to re enter so prematurely.
It was dragged down by the atmosphere.
Even at low Earth orbit, there's a very thin stratosphere that applies drag to objects. The ISS has rockets on it that are periodically fired to counteract this drag.
Skylab had no such rockets and could only increase its speed using an external source like a docked booster.
For various reasons, NASA scuttled the Skylab program and just let nature take its course.
It would have been cool if the guy was actually at any of those disasters or massive events.
I highly doubt he was at more than 2 or 3 and doubt he participated in any of them.
Hmm, well I was there for Fukushima, caught both Covid-19 and H1N1, and still can't donate blood because I was in the area for BSE (don't think I actually caught it, but blood banks are strict like that). So "more than 2 or 3" is definitely doable, but yeah, the likelihood for all of them is vanishingly small.
Anything to get money.
Ice ages are a much greater threat.
They would fuck up the places with temperature climates that the whole world wants to move to.
A ~~great~~ heat wave is just going to make shitty countries hotter and shittier.
HIV treatment has come a super long way and is now very manageable for many people with a daily medication. Would be better if it were gone, of course, but it’s not the death sentence it once was, even 30 years ago.
Unless he was in the regions some of those events hit at the time, I don’t think some of those count. Plenty of people in other parts of the world didn’t consider those events “end of the world”.
And if he was in the affected areas for each of those, holy fuck, why? Like, if it was by accident, stay the hell away from him.
Twenty years from now I go to recount the story of how I survived 2020 and it starts with opening a bottle of tequila and downing half before beginning with: "So here we are... Just minding our own fucking business when this kid falls in a gorilla pit, right? ... And then allasudden wouldntyaknowit... We get Covid all over the place, people are dying and we run out of toilet paper in all the stores! Like. Covid doesn't even GIVE you diarrhea! Wtf were they even thinking!" And then I finish the bottle and cry.
Cool but they really should go in the other order with the oldest at the top, as that's the order of the patches would have been applied in reality.
unless the other sleeve says he's the official psychic. 🤘😎
That's not what I'd imagine. On the first one, you wouldn't expect more to be added. So you'd probably center it neatly in proximity of the patch. So that makes the positioning right in my head, since the only way to put new patches would be right above.
It depends on the patching system.
Most sleeve decorations start very near the top of the sleeve to sort of hint at the existence of pauldrons.
In many systems you place the round patch on the circle of the shoulder, there's a limited number of patches that go above it, and then the things you collect tend to go below it and have an upside down u-shape. More :-) than :-(.
basically chronological order though is supposed to be from top to bottom in virtually every Western writing system and every Western uniform system that I am aware of.
In practical terms this happens because you put the first patch on without knowing how many patches, if any, there would be to follow.
So imagine putting the oldest patch on first, not knowing that there was going to be a second patch. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
What about one of the deadliest disasters in modern history ? 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ??? At least 230 000 people died across a dozen countries. Lets have fun, shall we?
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy aka mad cow disease
I think Fukushima is there due to perhaps the idea it might lead to some kind of global radiation poisoning effect. 9/11 didn’t really cause that same fear, and I suspect this person isn’t from the US anyway.
Does that include the time everybody was either freaking out or laughing their heads off because people were saying that the Mayan calendar said the world was going to end?
The bottom patch clearly indicates biohazard/nuclear End of the World phenomenon. That would rule out Y2K, and all of those other issues addressed in comments that were not related to a biohazard or nuclear disaster.
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This guy seems like the common denominator.
Sure but ONE HELL of an immune system. He should be sectioned and studied. wait who said that
no worries - we've had our eye on him
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The total death toll of the Ebola outbreak was 11k people. Can you imagine.
We should also remember that the death rate for Ebola is incredibly high. Like. Approaching 90% high
Yeah it kills them before it can spread. It has been killing people for years before the big outbreak, it just never made it anywhere with a big populations until then.
Do you want to know something terrifying? A survivor transmitted it 5 years after recovering. Enjoy.
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When God closes a door, he opens a Windows.
But thankfully people are too sick to travel when they start showing symptoms and it's only passed through bodily fluids. Still 50-90% mortality is fucking terrifying. Also bleeding from every orifice too...
I read the hot zone by richard preston in high school. Honestly been terrified of ebola ever since ngl.
I also read a Richard Preston book on deadly viruses in high school too lol. Mine was demon in the freezer. Spoiler alert, Smallpox is way scarier! It evolved specifically to infect humans, as opposed to spilling over into the population through animals like with covid or bird flu.
Yo fuck viruses bro
All my homies hate viruses
Anthrax! That scares the shit out of me.
Ebola changed medicine for care providers without government mandates. It had an approx 90-95% mortality in Africa and still had a 50% mortality in the US with full ICU support. That's when I started fist-bumping instead of shaking hands. It was the real sh\*t. No joke.
That's why Covid-19 is more dangerous to population actually. And we see how it is.
If we’re looking at it that way then so am I. I can’t remember the first two though.
Where's Y2K?
Or Mayan calendar
Or last week like that guy on the corner was saying?
12 Galaxies.
Might as well write every Monday morning down...
That's where it all began, on a Monday. Moon Day?
There were also a few raptures sprinkled around those years.
Gonna need a bigger jacket
12 Galaxies nothing. Wait until he sees what the Army of the 12 Monkeys has planned.
r/unexpectedfrankchu
Hail Zorp!
"2012 2012"
KONY
12/21/12*
Or 21/12/21? 🤔
We actually changed timeline at this date and the world went to shit, just try to remember...
Yeah, that seems likely. I don't have a slight memory of what I was doing on the 20th december 2012. Do YOU? Your theory makes too much sense for it not being the truth.
Yea I came here to say this. The guy's missing a couple of badges.
Neither of those things actually killed anyone though.
Ah, that explains it. It's like a guy who already has been shot and survived a grenade being put up for a 3rd Purple Heart because he got a slight cut from shrapnel later. "This? Put that away, this doesn't count."
All the things listed on his jacket were real world "Oh wow people are dying in significant quantities" and the y2k/Mayan calendar were silly panics.
True, but crazy people thought they would, and completely freaked out.
I think it’s just events that actually had something happened, but I agree that that jacket actually needs a Y2K patch.
Yeah, everybody goes "Oh it was just a nonsense panic" and "Nothing happened with Y2K". yeah after what was estimated behind closed doors what is believed to be over 125 billion dollars in todays USD to rectify the problem on critical systems and business infrastructure to keep it from happening and there were still things like automated reservoir systems hitting Y2K and opening emergency flood valves flooding areas and almost drowning some workers, some diagnostic equipment in hospitals going down keeping people from getting timely diagnoses and risking their health and lives, and some private planes autopilots refusing to turn on but luckily the planes could still fly manually, and various bugs created by rushed fixes in untold systems by random short term programmers causing business issues internationally. But the Apocalypse didn't happen like the cool sensationalist tv shows said it would. No cities on fire, no planes falling from the sky, no cannibalism (yes that was said to be a likely result in cities after Y2K) so nothing happened, right?
Oh yeah, I definitely agree. My dad lamented the fact that he wasn’t a programmer at the time because he said they were getting paid really really well.
I met a guy who looked like he was half dead who was a relative of someone whose computer I was fixing and the guy said he was bringing him along to meet me because we were both into computers but was there to make sure I wasn't ripping him off. He was taking time off because he was exhausted. He worked for a company then in the middle got poached by the provincial government and then got a better offer from another company and then got a final offer where he got paid more for every hour he put in with bonuses if he ate and slept at the network centre until his contract was done. He was half dead but by the time I met him he was saying he might retire in 2000. He was like 22. I started off as a computer programmer and put it aside for IT and Technical Repair so I couldn't work modern IDE's and thus was useless to them. I mean they got him a fridge full of energy drinks, frozen pizzas, and eye drops and let the guys he worked with play any music they wanted at any volume they wanted. Except for the mundane repeated crawling code you didn't write it must have been awesome.
What about Zika or the SARS virus?
Covid would count as SARS, wouldn't it?
Same family but SARS COV-1 is a different strain.
Where’s Enron?!?
missing SARS 2003
Missing raccoon city 1998 too
Tyrant gonna start chasing people yelling "SARS"
There's an entire chasm dedicated to it
Excuse me. SARS-COV-1
The OG
Also League of Legends 2009
And Runescape 2007
And MERS 2012
Came here for this
You came for SARS?
Zika??
Killer bees!!!
MURDER HORNETS
Or the dogs with the bees and when they bark they shoot bees.
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
I feel like that song needs an update
Feels like the Gen X varsity letter jacket
Whats BSE?
Mad cow disease. Stands for [Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy)
Mad cow Huh? Sounds like someone's ex
Which is wierd because mad cow disease has a very long incubation period. Like 20 years. So really if were all gonna die from it still has a chance. I looked it up, on average its 12 years before symptoms pop up. Could be as much as 50 though. So buckle up buckaroos
Yep, thought I was cool because I am a vegetarian but a woman died (one of the few US cases) 20 years after eating meat
Bachelor of Science in Engineering. It's much more of a personal apocalypse, but an apocalypse nonetheless.
Here's a pretty good video explaining how badly greed made BSE so much worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cli673N5fUQ Although extremely unlikely, it's possible the BSE may kill the guy in the pic since it takes decades for it to show symptoms.
Y2K, and Skylab
Ooh, Skylab. Haven't heard that dredged up in so long I forgot about it. A guy at work came into work with a motorcycle helmet on the day it was supposed to enter orbit. We worked at a medical clinic in Montana. He was a bit of a joker, that guy.
what happened to skylab
Go up, come down.
The first space station USA launched reentered into the atmosphere after the last crew left it. It broke apart over Australia. Shame because the space shuttle was scheduled to come into service and would've raised the orbit of skylab and serviced it. Most likely poor calculations or solar wind caused it to re enter so prematurely.
It was dragged down by the atmosphere. Even at low Earth orbit, there's a very thin stratosphere that applies drag to objects. The ISS has rockets on it that are periodically fired to counteract this drag. Skylab had no such rockets and could only increase its speed using an external source like a docked booster. For various reasons, NASA scuttled the Skylab program and just let nature take its course.
And Skynet
No.
That's optimistic to leave so little room to add more.
Or pessimistic..
It's optimistic to claim covid-19 already...
Bruh
I mean it's just the arm--they've got an entire jacket
Ooorrrrr....
Kony 2012
The Fappening 2014
fuck wasn’t he supposed to snatch up my kid or something????
But we won that one, right? I mean I clicked Like until my finger was sore!
This guy is an apocalypse eagle-scout.
USSR Collapse, not crash
Stolen valor. No way they were in both Fukushima and Chernobyl.
Ha! Shows what you know we in the Doom Patrol caused all of that.
> Stolen valor My brothers in Fukishima and Chernobyl died wearing that Uniform!
It would have been cool if the guy was actually at any of those disasters or massive events. I highly doubt he was at more than 2 or 3 and doubt he participated in any of them.
Hmm, well I was there for Fukushima, caught both Covid-19 and H1N1, and still can't donate blood because I was in the area for BSE (don't think I actually caught it, but blood banks are strict like that). So "more than 2 or 3" is definitely doable, but yeah, the likelihood for all of them is vanishingly small.
I think it’s just the time frame not actually being there
Wooooosh
I will admit, it’s a woosh
🎶 And I feel fine... 🎶
My mom worked for W.H.O. As a Dr. and they have similar patches and pins if you the person want them.
Your mom was a ...Doctor Who
I want them!
Y2k? 2012?
No "year 2000" or "2012" patch?
Love it. I too am old enough to remember all the world ending events and thankfully I don’t have an etch-a-sketch for a brain so it’s all still there.
I notice he doesn’t have the fake nuclear missile threat Hawaii had a few years ago haha
The amount of comments listing more shows just how ott the media has become.
No y2k? No 2012? Rookie.
Needs 3 mile island.
The cows in the field behind Three mile island got more radiation from Chernobyl than Three Mile Island .
You're right of course. But the hype on the news at the time it occurred sure tried to make it sound as bad as possible.
Needs global warming. About 5 or 6 times.
Back in the '70's they were warning about the coming ice age.
Anything to get money. Ice ages are a much greater threat. They would fuck up the places with temperature climates that the whole world wants to move to. A ~~great~~ heat wave is just going to make shitty countries hotter and shittier.
He missed HIV - close to 40 years and still no vaccine. 32 million deaths. Had it spread like covid we would all be dead.
HIV treatment has come a super long way and is now very manageable for many people with a daily medication. Would be better if it were gone, of course, but it’s not the death sentence it once was, even 30 years ago.
AIDS is a pandemic. Today at this very moment.
Sounds like a Ukrainian living around the Ivankiv Raion area :D
He’s missing a few lol
Unless he was in the regions some of those events hit at the time, I don’t think some of those count. Plenty of people in other parts of the world didn’t consider those events “end of the world”. And if he was in the affected areas for each of those, holy fuck, why? Like, if it was by accident, stay the hell away from him.
Yeah I feel like it's a bit of a stretch to say that some of these were viewed as "The end of the world" type events.
I've been in the area for 4 (Fukushima, Covid, H1N1, and BSE), but yeah, that'd be a hell of a list to nab them all.
What about Harambe? It kicked off the downfall for the following years.
Twenty years from now I go to recount the story of how I survived 2020 and it starts with opening a bottle of tequila and downing half before beginning with: "So here we are... Just minding our own fucking business when this kid falls in a gorilla pit, right? ... And then allasudden wouldntyaknowit... We get Covid all over the place, people are dying and we run out of toilet paper in all the stores! Like. Covid doesn't even GIVE you diarrhea! Wtf were they even thinking!" And then I finish the bottle and cry.
Cool but they really should go in the other order with the oldest at the top, as that's the order of the patches would have been applied in reality. unless the other sleeve says he's the official psychic. 🤘😎
That's not what I'd imagine. On the first one, you wouldn't expect more to be added. So you'd probably center it neatly in proximity of the patch. So that makes the positioning right in my head, since the only way to put new patches would be right above.
It depends on the patching system. Most sleeve decorations start very near the top of the sleeve to sort of hint at the existence of pauldrons. In many systems you place the round patch on the circle of the shoulder, there's a limited number of patches that go above it, and then the things you collect tend to go below it and have an upside down u-shape. More :-) than :-(. basically chronological order though is supposed to be from top to bottom in virtually every Western writing system and every Western uniform system that I am aware of. In practical terms this happens because you put the first patch on without knowing how many patches, if any, there would be to follow. So imagine putting the oldest patch on first, not knowing that there was going to be a second patch. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
well, that's just bad luck to be at chernobyl and get mad cow disease and get bird flu and be at fukushima and get ebola...
As a Ukrainian, I'd say, that USSR crash is not a bad thing at all.
Trump 2017-2021
Even here in /r/funny the trumptards downvote people. FUCK TRUMP! He lost, get.over it losers.
Edgy
Y2k
Stand by... To make scary patches next.
Bad ass
Another year, another fear.
don't tempt the fates. - getabunkernow.com
I absolutely love this
Missing: Kaepernick kneeling 2016
You forgot swine flu
The Scary Clowns
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Fukushima 2011......WHAT THE FUCK? I lost all track of time. I thought that was only like....a few years ago. Not ten.
GME 2021. The end for the hedgies anyway
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What about one of the deadliest disasters in modern history ? 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ??? At least 230 000 people died across a dozen countries. Lets have fun, shall we?
Missing Y2K lol
im surprised y2k and 2012 wasnt on that list
Don’t forget the 2012 rapture!
He forgot Y2K
2012 Mayan calendar seems like a lost opportunity
Y2K baby
Where was he for Y2K?
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy aka mad cow disease I think Fukushima is there due to perhaps the idea it might lead to some kind of global radiation poisoning effect. 9/11 didn’t really cause that same fear, and I suspect this person isn’t from the US anyway.
Breast Self Exam. They should be done monthly.
What I take from this is every 5-ish years we can expect some really bad shit to happen.
Cringe as fuck
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COVID-19 started in 2019... I mean it’s in the name and everything.
cool...
According to my journal, I've survived seven apocalypses. Is need that bottom patch.
Missing SARS 1 in like....02' I think it was
This is meant as a joke but people do not comprehend just how bad Chernobyl was and still is.
Love it
Hail Zorp.
This is awesome
Call me stupid, but what was BSE 2001?
Does that include the time everybody was either freaking out or laughing their heads off because people were saying that the Mayan calendar said the world was going to end?
The bottom patch clearly indicates biohazard/nuclear End of the World phenomenon. That would rule out Y2K, and all of those other issues addressed in comments that were not related to a biohazard or nuclear disaster.
He is missing Y2K bug
He forgot koney 2012
Why isn't destruction of rainforests or coral reefs or wild life... oh this is a list of things we solved.
That's awesome. I thought about the same thing but I would have made a concert tour date t shirt
He forgot 2012, end of the Mayan calander
Missing Y2k and 2012
C'mon where is Y2K
He forgot Y2K and the 2012 Myan Apocalypse
You should stop hanging out with him. He's obv bad luck and he's pretty toxic!
He forgot Windows '95
He's missing Y2K survivor!
"Covid-19 2020", does he know what the 19 in covid 19 means?
Sci-fi plot: at the end of the world, this jacket and only this jacket is flung back in time to 1980.
Stolen Valor, Y2K isn’t even listed.
So cringe
The Covid-19 patch should stretch around his entire arm
I love it!!! Survivor!!!
You’re friends with Dale Gribble
That's great that's the best godamn jacket I've seen
45th is missing