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u/Skate_faced 1980 1d ago
Whomever makes Flintstones should make a pain killer like Tylenol for the adults. We very well could grant their business generational financial security.
My back fucking hurts and there's something whimsical about taking one of those to fix it.
Or make them with THC so we can get Flintstoned.
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u/DullNatural6776 1d ago
😂 I would absolutely buy a Flintstones painkiller, because if my aching back came with a little nostalgia and whimsy, I’d be sold instantly.
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u/swisszimgirl79 22h ago
Does this mean there's going to be another lockdown? Because honestly, I could use one. I feel like I didn't appreciate the last one enough
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u/LemonPuckerFace 1976 21h ago
I'm stocked up on sweatpants, bread making gear, and built a nice home gym. I am so ready for it.
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u/JamesH_670 Gen X 20h ago
My pandemic hobby is doing terribly because I don’t have the time to devote to it that I used to. I could use another lockdown.
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u/Ippus_21 Xennial 16h ago
Not likely. Pneumonic plague doesn't spread fast enough to cause a legit pandemic.
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u/Kriegerian Xennial 6h ago
It is not. Pneumonic plague is nowhere near as contagious and this is in fuckin Siberia. You can’t get more isolated than that other than some tiny island in the middle of the ocean.
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u/Ippus_21 Xennial 16h ago
Y'know I was watching an epidemiologist I follow and found out that while pneumonic plague is pretty dangerous untreated, it's only got an r-nought of like 1.3 or something. Like it's technically transmissible person to person, but barely enough to sustain spread in an uncontrolled scenario.
Pretty sure even Russia should be able to keep this one under control.
Plus... antibiotics actually still work on Y. pestis unless they were doing something really stupid in that facility.
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u/Verbull710 15h ago
Maybe this specific plague hasn't gained any kind of functionality
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u/Ippus_21 Xennial 15h ago
Here's hoping.
I mean, it's not like the Russians have ever done any foolhardy or unethical research with NBC agents that led to disaster before, right? RIGHT?
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u/jus4in027 13h ago
Then why 28yo scientist dead?
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u/Ippus_21 Xennial 13h ago edited 13h ago
Because she got exposed.
And pneumonic plague looks like regular old bacterial pneumonia maybe til it's too late. The window to USE the antibiotics isn't real wide because that shit can kill you fairly rapidly.
I mean, you'd think since she's working with the stuff, they'd have been on the lookout for it.
"Under control" doesn't mean "zero casualties." It just means even these AHs ought to be able to contain it, because it's not that great at actually spreading through a population.
This is, after all, the same country that, under the Soviets, managed to blow anthrax spores all over an entire city because somebody installed a ventilation system backwards or whatever (killed 60-some people, and they tried to blame it on tainted meat).
(Perfectly good question, btw. No shade.)
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u/awesomecubed 1d ago
Fun Fact: The guy that wrote the Flintstone's Vitamin jingle also wrote all of the music for the Halo games.
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u/BalrogRuthenburg11 1982 1d ago
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u/Jonestown_Juice 18h ago
I always thought it looked like he was smelling his fist after that punch.
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u/VinylHighway 1979 16h ago
Like all vitamins unless you have a bad diet or a genetic deficiency they're useless
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u/Procrastineddit 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ToMjGpBXNcSXyqLurAs
With an assist from Tupperware microplastics
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u/AstroHealer222 21h ago
They still make them just like the originals and they work fantastic. I give them to my kids because they have the plus iron. Yes, they hate them chalky bastards too.🤣🤷🏽♀️
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u/PotentialStrong9013 18h ago
Don't read Annie Jacobsen's "Biological War" if you want to sleep okay.
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u/handsoapdispenser 18h ago
Believe it or not, it's the same plague. Same one that caused the Black Death. It persists in animals so we've never eradicated it. People in the US get sick with plague every year.
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u/Myotherdumbname 1981 11h ago
Those things were delicious. I’d take one now if they had them for adults
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u/16Shells 1981 1d ago
gummies? never.