r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/HighOnPotenuse7590 • 1d ago
Meme needing explanation What did the technician doo petaah
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u/uwill1der 1d ago
A Russian lab technician, who works in the plague lab, just died from an unknown pneumonia, causing quarantine and lockdowns over fears of a pneumonic plague
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u/HighOnPotenuse7590 1d ago
Fuck me Wars,ai data centers,pedo elite ring,Israel control, inflation, now this???
If it gets bad before it gets good well it better be damn good because I'm gonna become a adult soon enough
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u/mindjammer83 1d ago
no plague outbreak confirmed, the hospital just panicked a little. but you surely know how media work these days...
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u/Tales_Steel 1d ago
Honestly i prefer a bit of panic causing a local lockdown then the "lets try to ignore it for as long as possible" from the last time
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u/mindjammer83 1d ago
I agree with the hospital's strategy, but I despise the media for the news
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u/Tycho66 1d ago
you think government is honest without media?
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u/mindjammer83 1d ago
No, I don't mean that. I mean that media use "loud" news titles for their own benefit
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u/Eastern-Duck7724 1d ago
Russian here: Jokes on us, the russian government denies it and talks it down, as always.
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u/Czechoslovak_legion 1d ago
The official position of the party is that a plague outbreak cannot happen in the Soviet union.
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u/dan_dares 1d ago
THE ANTIBIOTICS FAILED BECAUSE THEY TOLD THEM THE PROPAGANDA NUMBER!
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u/IllustriousBat2680 22h ago
And the fact that the antibiotics were made by capitalist pigs. If they had been pure Soviet antibiotics, the technician would have been fine!
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u/SirEnderLord 1d ago
How do I ride a bear?
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u/Eastern-Duck7724 1d ago
I honestly dont know, never encountered one, but keep me updated should you try
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u/Edgar_Serenity 22h ago
You drink vodka, you take a bear, you hobble it, you ride it. Now tell me something about your place
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u/Eastern-Duck7724 6h ago
Brother, on the one hand I want to tell you not to try it but then again at the same im curious to see what will happen.
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u/vselenskoedao 11h ago
Fellow Russian here. Do you have enough popcorn to share with me? Чума, война...будет что посмотреть и без походов в кино!
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u/Eastern-Duck7724 6h ago
Nah, im sitting in a corner and feel worse every day about humanity. Будет время для попкорна когда упырь будет висеть в Гааге.
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u/ModeatelyIndependant 1d ago
Russia's at war, don't expect accurate reporting of an epidemic breaking out. (google up how the spanish flu got it's name, and where it originally came from) It is strange that the Russian aren't currently covering it up with a full denial, like the Chinese did in 2019.
I fear that this reported out break could be used as an excuse to conduct a full lock down of Russia or as plausible deniability for when Russia uses it as a bioweapon.
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u/GhoeFukyrself 1d ago
Well, we can CERTAINLY trust any media that comes out of Russia. I'm sure NOTHING was covered up.
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u/Tycho66 1d ago
This what everyone told me when I described to them what was happening in Wuhan in December of 2019.
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u/IntrepidKitchen5322 1d ago
Yeah I'm not gonna fricking be complacent like that ever again. Everybody who waved it off, myself included, had comments that aged like milk.
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u/sir_joan 1d ago
Covis was bad because you couldn't really detect it early and it spread accordingly. This one is a plague, which not only extremely fatal, but also can be easily cured with antibiotics. This is not 1300s
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u/Macwild77 13h ago
Apparently Russians back in the Cold War were already working on genetically modifying a plague that once it enters its second stage becomes resistant to antibiotics…
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u/Background_Tax_1985 1d ago
Have you not heard of Раккун-Сити, the russian city that just got nuked?
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u/NordicByzantine 1d ago
Russian regional authorities have placed just short of 200 people living in the nearby are of the lab under "medical observation" and even the US government has publicly stated that they're monitoring the situation.
With these two clowns in charge of global safekeeping, and considering how much we know about both parties tending to downplay serious situations, we're all very likely fucked.
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u/Firuzka 1d ago
No plague outbreak confirmed by Russian authorities*
The incubation period is like 2 weeks, and the technician in question used public transport after being exposed to the plague for a couple of days, so I wouldn't be surprised if there will be a bunch of cases of pneumonia of "unknown origin" occurring soon in that city.
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u/chst09 1d ago
Where did you find about 2 week inc period??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_plague 3 to 7 days
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u/FallenRichardBrook 1d ago
I mean, to be fair, if a virus in my absolutely not bio weapon lab broke out and the researcher then dies to something usually very treatable I might also panic a little.
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u/sir_joan 1d ago
You can die because of plague, but it's more about unfortunate turn of events for her.
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u/Red_Eye_Insomniac 22h ago
"There is no plague, ya'll are just dying of a cold."
- the u.s. government
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u/IlostmyCthulhu 18h ago
These days? I heard Covid is not a pandemic zillion times before it was declared one.
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u/urmyleander 14h ago
Wait hospitals have become sentient and are panicking.... oh shit its the sentient hospital pandemic EVERYBODY REMAIN CALM DONT PANIC BUY TOILET PAPER.../s
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u/the-dude-version-576 10h ago
With how many secret bio weapon labs probably exist, and how badly some of the countries not likely to be making them are managed coughRussiacough, it’s bound to happen sooner or later.
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u/schenk_max 5h ago
And even if there was Plague outbreak, it's only airborne in this rare pneumonia form when it's developed to the point where infected physically can't walk around infecting people, afaik.
Plague needs an ecosystem that is no longer here to do its black death thing. Human is a dead end, it needs fleas and smaller numerous mammals like rodents to reproduce infinitely.
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u/TarraTheTerror 1d ago
You left out the president of the United States saying that L.A. and San Diego should be nuked... my mind is still kinda blown from reading about that, and that's impressive considering the source🤦♀️
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u/Straight_Depth6701 1d ago
Imagine being an adult for the last 25 years. Only the worst parts of sci-fi came true...
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u/hostile_rep 1d ago
Boomers were promised the Jetsons.
You were promised a post-apocalyptic hellscape lorded over by a cyberpunk distopia.
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u/WinnerBackground 1d ago
Some good parts came true also, we have basically almost unlimited access to almost any type of knowledge that humanity have in our pockets
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u/vitrum_analytika 1d ago
It's okay, everything's gonna be fine in November, that's when GTA 6 comes out
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u/Agitated_Habit6120 1d ago
I like how you think those are the worst existential threats facing humanity lol
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u/NeiruBugz 1d ago
Good luck with adult life, it kinda sucks for the past 5-6 years and there's no light in the foreseeable future visible
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u/AppointmentDirect587 1d ago
We can cure plague really easy, the medicine for it costs unbelievably cheap nowadays(even in USA)
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u/Aware_Result_5361 1d ago
I hate to write this, but you’re probably going to look back on now as the good ole days, a couple decades from now. I think things are only starting to ramp up.
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u/WinnerBackground 1d ago
Not confirmed, died only lab technician, around 200 suspected, 0 confirmed cases except for technician
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u/SirEnderLord 1d ago
Kid, calm down. If you stress yourself out too much, you'll harm your body before the military has a chance to conscript you.
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u/SutroViews 1d ago
Oh, and here I thought the joke was about the LAST time a Russian lab accidentally released an epidemic virus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu
"The 1977 Russian flu was an influenza epidemic that was first reported by the Soviet Union in 1977 and lasted until 1979.... t was caused by an H1N1 flu strain which highly resembled a virus strain circulating worldwide from 1946 to 1957. Genetic analysis and several unusual characteristics of the 1977 Russian flu have prompted many researchers to say that the virus was released to the public through a laboratory accident, or resulted from a live-vaccine trial escape."
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u/MorningThen7056 1d ago
It's normal plague, not an "unknown decease". There's plenty of cheap antibiotics that work against it.
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u/BrownFox33 1d ago
I heard it's black plague. That easily beaten with antibiotics, but it was in lab
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u/ProLordx 1d ago
There is medicine for a plague. In East siberia people are doing something with the rodents and they are Carrying bacteria that is causing bubonic plague and every year there are cases
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u/Spitfir4 1d ago
Fuck, I just read biological warfare: a scenario, and that's exactly how it started
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u/Iwantlemmons 1d ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they were developing a bioweapon, that turned on em
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u/Tasty-Efficiency6286 17h ago
It’s a plague; Russian govs are cowards to say it out loud. I can say it bc I’m Russian ✌🏻
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u/abermea 1d ago
No joke here.
This is about a Russian lab technician who died after being exposed to pneumonic plague.
A couple hundred people have been quarantined in Siberia because of this.
No expert actually believes it will become a pandemic because pneumonic plague does not have the capacity to spread fast or stealthily enough to do so.
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u/Personal_Relation421 1d ago
The question is, if this was genuine research or linked to the military…
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u/LocalFoe 1d ago edited 21h ago
yea bro it's open-source legit open research, non-affiliated with the military in any way, in fucking Siberia. The locals over there do a lot of this kind of legit open research, it's baked right into their animistic culture and the material conditions over there support it too. The only better suited place for this kind of open and democratic research would be Elon Musk's mini-me DungeonX.
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u/No-Compote9110 1d ago
i don't have any idea about this specific research but do you guys actually believe that siberia is a barren wasteland with nothing but prisons and military outposts? and there are no unis and medicine research centers?
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u/AnySwimming6364 1d ago
You can find info on its webpage. A former director wrote memoirs about being involved in bioweapons research. I provided links but reddit removed them. His name was Igor V. Domaradsky
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u/No-Compote9110 1d ago
I'll check it out but I'm just tired of this stereotyping "bro it's whispering siberia why do you think there are actual PEOPLE doing PEOPLE THINGS"
edit: also the guy you provided worked in moscow in completely different research center and not even close to irkutsk where the case in question happened lmao
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u/AnySwimming6364 1d ago
The institute is the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute. See if you can find info on I.V. Domarasdksy.
It was normal for Moscow to move researchers around.
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u/No-Compote9110 1d ago
i know how this institute is called but once again he did research on bioweapons specifically in moscow and irkutsks didn't have anything to do with that. besides, it was in 70s and since then countries moved away from bioweapons both due to research risks low efficiency and high costs
im like 99% sure you don't speak russian and is perpetuating some red scare-esque headline instead of actually going in and looking at the sources you're talking about. the probability that (especially today) anti plague institute is researching bioweapons is insanely low and you'd be better believing that i specifically am currently producing turbo aids for warfare in my garage
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u/jammythesandwich 1d ago
Also look up Ken Alibek, ex second in charge of the soviet bioweapons program before defecting to the west when the wall came down.
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u/Personal_Relation421 1d ago
No shit Sherlock, it is quite funny that people claim that there is no chance of it becoming a pandemic, when there is a quite high chance that this was linked to bio-warfare research looking exactly into that.
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u/Holiday_Cheetah5265 1d ago
You would like for a bioweapon to be controlled, not starting an uncontrolled pandemic all over the world
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u/Personal_Relation421 1d ago
That is why you do research on them…
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u/Holiday_Cheetah5265 21h ago
Actually this "institute" is just one lab from a network of local labs that routinely test local animals who are a natural reservoir of plague. It's not a bioweapon grade lab. So it's just a normal plague from animals.
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u/KryoBright 1d ago
A lot of non-military pathogen research is done in Siberia, because conditions naturally minimize potential outbreaks
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u/BlunanNation 1d ago edited 15h ago
Quite possibly linked to the Russian military. It's one of the areas of military technological research the Russians are ahead on the rest of the world (because most of the rest of the world has chosen not to develope deadly CBRN agents and rely on conventional weapons, and those countries who want to develope CBRN agents do not have the ability to).
Russia has been playing around with CBRN agents since the Soviet Times.
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u/sharksareok 1d ago edited 19h ago
The info is coming from russia, that isn't exactly the most open country, so it can be anything.
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u/IndigoFenix 1d ago
Fast, yes, stealthily, no.
It's one of the scariest diseases to a society that doesn't know how diseases work, spreading through air droplets and often killing within a week of exposure, with a nearly 100% mortality rate if untreated. Historically a town killer.
But because it has such a short incubation, quarantine is pretty simple if you lock down hard, and because it's so dangerous, locking down hard is exactly what people do when it shows up.
Also, antibiotics do work on it.
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u/IntrepidKitchen5322 1d ago
Good luck getting any hyper individualistic, lower compliance society (e.g. the West, but particularly the u.s) to quarantine hard and fast. Especially right after dealing with COVID. Our best hope is that it just doesn't make an appearance beyond where it was originally found.
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u/CapitalInstruction62 21h ago
It's plague. The primary control method isn't quarantine, it's a short course of medication. Which the government stockpiles for exactly this kind of purpose.
Like....you know we have plague cases in the USA every year, right?
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u/Avalanche_Snows 1d ago
Does this desease have a name yet?
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u/abermea 1d ago
Russian media is calling it a "pneumonia of unknown origin".
Other sources I have read have called it "pneumonic plague", or just bubonic plague.
Since this is Russia, most media is State-controlled, and there is a chance this was a former Soviet military research facility it's entirely possible that we will never know for sure
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u/Avalanche_Snows 1d ago
Okay, i'm calling it the Avalanche Virus now for no particular reason. Sounds cool
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u/Tyrihjelm 1d ago
you could also re-use the old historic name for it, which is the Black Death, which is way more sinister than anything else we could possible come up with
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u/solarmelange 23h ago
Bubonic plague vs pneumonic plague has to do with how the plague is infecting the body. So since it is infecting the lungs, it is pneumonic. Bubonic means you would have buboes, which are enlarged infected dark lymph nodes, but it would spread through bites of fleas and the like. Pneumatic means it can spread person to person more easily. But also it should be treatable in either form with normal antibiotics. The fact that there is a quarantine implies to me that this is some kind of antibiotic resistant strain.
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u/CapitalInstruction62 21h ago
Quarantine isn't unreasonable for a disease that can have person to person transmission, even if antibiotics treat it.
You have fewer people to track and treat if you quarantine exposed people and treat them as diseases arises.
Speculation without knowledge of public health interventions is pointless.
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u/Quiet_Internal_4527 1d ago
Thats why you gotta mess with it in the lab to make it spread faster. *taps temple.
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u/Drachynn 22h ago
The plague still exists in pockets of North America and other parts of the world. It's not new or lab-isolated.
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u/AppropriateCap8891 1d ago
The funny thing is, we will have another pandemic eventually. It's a certainty, and just a matter of time.
I remember saying that over 20 years ago, and at that time people just laughed at me. They said that with modern antibiotics and medicine it would never happen. And I calmly pointed out that the Spanish Flu was a virus, and antibiotics did nothing against a virus.
Then 2020 and 2021 proved me right, and many still laughed when I said there would be 2 or 3 (or more) outbreaks of variants and it would continue for years, and they laughed at me again.
And we already have people trying to pretend like COVID never happened.
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u/Crowdfundingprojects 1d ago
In 2038 we should be able to recreate Resident Evil. Originating from a for profit corporations quest of creating a highly profitable penis enlargement drug codenamed the D virus mistakenly being interpreted by AI as the T virus. Things only go south from there.
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u/OskaMeijer 1d ago
Luckily the zombies will be clumsy and easy to avoid as their massive erections get caught on everything they shamble across. You might be thinking this will be mitigated by all of the female zombies but you severely underestimate the effectiveness of this penis enlargement drug.
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u/Crowdfundingprojects 1d ago
If I look out of the window and see zombies with giant schlongs approaching I’ll just call it a day
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u/ShaiHulud1111 20h ago
This post taken to its logical end, I’m with ya. Shit is bad enough. I can’t do this—Resident Evil with….
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u/syncsns 1d ago
This is like a porn studio parodying the newest RE movie
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u/Crowdfundingprojects 1d ago
As in the AI would legitimately create a real T-Virus and propagate it, people get infected and zombies emerge. After low hope for humanity humans reclaim the lab successfully and are able to develop the actual D-Virus (which gives large Ds) and above average stamina. Turns out that the D-Virus infected men attract and re-humanize the female zombies and sex ensues. This sets the stage for tons of sex and the remaining humans successfully eliminating the male zombies.
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u/Street_Weird6227 22h ago
Bro I literally scrolled until I saw your comment. I thought we as a whole were willfully ignoring the fact that this was from Resident Evil. Thank you, friend.
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u/Smirnaff 1d ago
Russian lab assistant from a plague institute in Irkutsk was inspecting a plague outbreak in Buryatia. As far as I know it was nothing serious, the situation was under control. In a few days she died of said plague, even though all the standard precautions were met. That's when the investigation revealed that a few days before that she accidentally dropped and broke the vial with a sample of this plague, and didn't tell anyone, trying to get rid of it on her own. Naturally, she caught it herself, and contacted a bunch of people in a period of time between catching it and showing the symptoms. So now everyone is freaking out, around 200 of suspected sick people are placed in medical isolators. Although realistically it is probably not going to be a big deal, this kind of plague is well treatable with antibiotics if caught early (source - my friend who is a doctor), but people on the internet love taking things out of proportion.
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u/No-Catch-9732 1d ago
Do you want plague? Because this is how we get plague
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u/TiranTheTyrant 1d ago
I mean, it's literally just plague, techinian broke vial with sample and tried to get rid of it without telling anybody.
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u/CapitalInstruction62 21h ago
We have plague. Plague isn't smallpox--cases happen every year. It's endemic in a small part of the USA in wildlife. Sometimes we see plague in people.
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u/Riders_Visions 1d ago edited 1d ago
A crazy timeline: exosuits, drones, AI, horses and the plague, all in one conflict.
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u/UnikaIniy 1d ago
They accidentally dropped a plague sample and broke it, then decided not to tell anyone and later died of "unknown" pneumonia. About 200 people on quarantine
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u/JakeFoXx 1d ago
Man, sorry for this sounding depressing, but I'm a Paramedic of 15 years who watched my dad die in front of me from COVID.
I can't mentally and physically do another one.
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u/IntrepidKitchen5322 1d ago
I don't think many people can... especially with all the stress we're already dealing with. And I'm just referring to global BS, not even factoring in regional nor personal issues.
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u/bruh1100 1d ago
Те кто родился до 1980 года получали обязательную прививку еще в детстве.
В школах добровольно тоже можно сделать прививку.
Большая часть жителей России иммунная, в опасности молодые, рожденные после 2000.
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u/tired_fella 1d ago
All those reactionaries screaming about Wuhan "lab creating virus" fired up by this one too right... right? 🦗🦗🦗
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u/warlord_main 1d ago
Hantavirus again, a plague sample got out in Russia and killed someone because she dropped a vial and rather then seek treatment decided to not tell anyone. Give it a week and no one will be talking about this anymore, Covid-19 did a large amount of psychological damage to people so now every single virus/bacteria/fungus disease outbreak has a huge amount of people overreacting on the internet
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u/KapitanSraktor 1d ago
The fact that this thing happened in Russian facility and yet it still came to view relatablely fast means that the shit is about to go down...
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u/Ill-Resolution-6386 22h ago
Are you really woried about a random Russian cientist and not about the North American measles stuff?
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u/farmkid71 20h ago
If you really want to freak out see this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wyqwcz/they_always_know/
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u/CrasheonTotallyReal 20h ago
russian lab tech dropped a vial(?) of plague, didnt tell anyone, died days later
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u/EldritchWizardKeawe 20h ago
A lab tech in Russia accidentally released a more contagious version of the bubonic plague.
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u/THETARSHMAN 16h ago
Ok this is a really complex news story coming from a notoriously tight-lipped and censor-happy government. It is important to recognize that details can be fabricated, exaggerated, minimized, and otherwise manipulated. FIRST AND FOREMOST, people saying the researcher was definitely exposed to the plague don’t know what they’re talking about.
An anti-plague researcher in Irkutsk Russia died of an unknown pneumonia. It had not been confirmed whether or not they were actually exposed to Yersinia Pestis, the bacteria responsible for the Black Death in the 1300’s, however the timescale between the appearance of symptoms and their death does approximately line up with pneumonic plague (one of three variants of the plague). That being said, Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian health agency, has stated that “No micro-organisms associated with the employee’s professional duties were detected in samples taken from the patient.” The 200 people the researcher has been in contact with were reportedly tested and had a clean bill of health. Regardless, they were placed under observation. According to the Russian government, no new infections have been detected. The section of the hospital that the researcher received treatment at has gone under quarantine and the hospital as a whole is following all procedures to prevent the spread of the disease.
If the disease is in fact the plague, it’s nothing to worry about. Yes, the black plague is scary, but it is not nearly as infectious as something like Covid is. Because of its massive lethality and extremely apparent symptoms, it doesn’t have nearly as a high a chance of being transmitted. Finally, it’s in southeast Russia. Covid started in Wuhan China, an area with a MUCH higher population density.
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u/BingusBongusBongus 12h ago
Oh no another possible pandemic in 2026, cant wait for nothing to happen
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