Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[barfolomew]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns

"Brian Ellison, who is running against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow, says homeless people are 'constantly victims of violent crime' and providing them with firearms would provide a deterrent."

The Stabenow platform on this issue is, unsurprisingly, to provide the homeless with knives.

[mu_hilltopper]

Well, crap.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur

[StillAWarrior]

Well, crap.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur

Dying from diarrhea?  That's an awful way to go.  And tough on the kids, too..."So, how did your dad die?"

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Well, crap.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-americans-are-dying-from-suicide-drug-use-and-diarrhea/?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur

This quote confuses me

"Some of the biggest increases in diarrhea-related deaths have taken place in the Northeast and Midwest, for example — likely as a result of infections that stem from antibiotic use. "
Anti-biotic use causes infections?  Isn't that what they treat?

[RJax55]

This quote confuses me

"Some of the biggest increases in diarrhea-related deaths have taken place in the Northeast and Midwest, for example — likely as a result of infections that stem from antibiotic use. "
Anti-biotic use causes infections?  Isn't that what they treat?

Its a side-effect of treating other illnesses with antibiotics. Antibiotics caused the C. difficile bacteria to multiply in a patient's stomach. When expelled, the bacteria then has the opportunity to circulate. In high antibiotic-use environments, like a hospital or nursing home, it can spread like wildfire.

For those that are older and/or comprised by other health issues, it can be fatal. Very serious.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Its a side-effect of treating other illnesses with antibiotics. Antibiotics caused the C. difficile bacteria to multiply in a patient's stomach. When expelled, the bacteria then has the opportunity to circulate. In high antibiotic-use environments, like a hospital or nursing home, it can spread like wildfire.

For those that are older and/or comprised by other health issues, it can be fatal. Very serious.

you know your $hit, RJax.

[WarriorDad]

1/3 of millenials not sure the earth is round

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/millennials-flat-earth-survey/

[4everwarriors]

Probably da same percentage who don't think ya can get pregnant thru intercourse, hey?

[rocket surgeon]

Probably da same percentage who don't think ya can get pregnant thru intercourse, hey?

   don't tell them, but they think inter-course is a prefix to the fill-in-the-blank-studies they major in

[Skitch]

Its a side-effect of treating other illnesses with antibiotics. Antibiotics caused the C. difficile bacteria to multiply in a patient's stomach. When expelled, the bacteria then has the opportunity to circulate. In high antibiotic-use environments, like a hospital or nursing home, it can spread like wildfire.

For those that are older and/or comprised by other health issues, it can be fatal. Very serious.

I was on a very serious course of antibiotics after a bad case of cellulitis and it destroyed my insides. I had kidney issues, a bleeding stomach ulcer which made me anemic but the worst was C. difficile. I lost almost 40 pounds in two weeks. Horrible experience.

[mu_hilltopper]

I like this headline:

The question is no longer 'Are we screwed?' That answer is unequivocally yes. It's 'Now what?'

Climate change, yadda yadda.  No need for the link, really.

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

High Five!

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/12/hand-dryers-feces-bacteria-study/

[ZiggysFryBoy]

High Five!

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/12/hand-dryers-feces-bacteria-study/

it's chit like this that makes me not wash my hands after a piss.

[4everwarriors]

And ya reely don't wanna handle da 'ol johnson after washin' yo hands, hey?

[mu_hilltopper]

So delicious ..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5735065/Worlds-oldest-woman-aged-129-says-shes-miserable-day-life.html

[naginiF]

So delicious ..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5735065/Worlds-oldest-woman-aged-129-says-shes-miserable-day-life.html

i didn't read a word beyond the sub headline but i did scroll through the pictures and.............sorry i have to move my bed outside because that is one of the keys to long life.  also - #gettintoknowtheneighbors

[mu_hilltopper]

Wisconsin doom...

https://observatory.journalism.wisc.edu/2018/05/10/wisconsins-rate-of-lead-poisoning-worse-than-flint-michigans/

[mu_hilltopper]

C'mon, Ebola, let's see what you go this time. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/africa/who-ebola-outbreak.html

[warriorchick]

Ebola's got nothing on this:

http://allthatsinteresting.com/radioactive-boars

[mu_hilltopper]

Ohhhhh, FFS.   I hate it when the boars become radioactive.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Earth's  magnetic field drifting westward...True North no more.

https://www.space.com/40621-earth-magnetic-field-drifts.html

[mu_hilltopper]

Ebola superhighway:

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/388401-the-ebola-superhighway-why-a-new-outbreak-terrifies-public-health

[mu_hilltopper]

Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028

[Archies Bat]

Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028

They could have waited until after the holiday weekend to publish this.

[warriorchick]

Well, ain't this a kick in the nuts this morning.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/bad-news-sausage-bacon-booze-12585028

#fakenews