ISIS has a flesh eating disease problem:
An outbreak of Leishmaniasis is spreading fast due to to pollution and poor hygiene conditions
Islamic State fighters are falling ill in their droves to a deadly flesh-eating virus.
Known as Leishmaniasis, the disease is spreading at a fast thanks to pollution and poor hygiene conditions and there have been more than 100,000 cases reported, the Sun has reported.
It causes large open wounds which eat away at flesh, is fatal if not treated with a simple course of medicine.
Poor hygiene is undoubtedly one cause. Another might be the use of meth-like substances:
A little pill called Captagon turns Jihadists into superhuman soldiers. They don’t feel pain, they don’t fear death and they don’t get tired. They become killing machines. Bonus; it makes them murderously psychotic and causes brain damage after prolonged use. It is cheap, easy to produce and highly addictive. The Syrians take it as do the rebels. And from what I hear, ISIS loves the stuff. They laugh when they are beaten, they are high when they rape, they are jazzed when they behead infidels. During the raid in Paris, French police said they found needles used by the attackers to inject themselves with Captagon. The drug may have helped them remain calm as they carried out their brutal attacks, which included slicing the bellies open of their victims while they were still alive…
A powerful amphetamine tablet based on the original synthetic drug known as fenethylline, Captagon quickly produces a euphoric intensity in users, allowing Syrias fighters to stay up for days, killing with a numb, reckless abandon.
Another big piece of the puzzle however is K-selection. Cut resources, diminish nutrition, pile on chronic stress, limit sleep, and prevent recovery, and the immune system will begin to shut down. During this period disease gets a foothold in the weaker individuals, and as it does the disease itself will begin to adapt. It may take time, but since the organisms which will reproduce most rapidly are those which most effectively spread and suppress or evade the host immune system, the process will only favor the advancement of these unusual diseases.
Of course all of that ignores what will happen as the Russians begin testing their advanced bioweapons behind the scenes. If I were Putin, I’d be looking at the prospect of a long asymmetric war, or a disease breaking out among the fighters, spreading to everyone they associate with (and those who support them), and then petering out as it reaches western medical care. If I were Putin, I’m not sure it would be a question of if, so much as when, how, and how much.
I still think we are due for a disease-mediated remodeling of the human gene pool along with the collapse, and it will not be good for rabbits, idiots, the poor, the promiscuous, or those lacking a normal disgust reflex.
Apocalypse cometh™
[…] By Anonymous Conservative […]
I need to read the paper from the book about the Black Death being responsible for the renaissance. It’s hard for me to really grasp the idea that a disease or plague would wipe out only people with low IQ or low ability to plan for the future. But then I’ve also heard it said cities are centers of r-selection which is why they vote democrat, so what do I know. I’ve always thought of plagues as mindless microscopic killing machines that don’t discriminate rich from poor, tall from short, fat from skinny. The idea that living a sensible life would help you survive a disease sounds almost biblical. Like the Passover in the OT.
The thing is those microorganisms run into people whose bodies will respond differently to them.
It requires an understanding of the stress system. The body produces energy, and that energy is divided among growth, immunity, and basic sustenance of life processes. When you are stressed emotionally, the body releases stress hormones which shut off growth and immunity generally. This is so you can allocate all energy to sustenance of your body. As an example, say you are being chased by a Sabertooth tiger. You don’t want your immune system going full tilt and making you feel like you have the flu, nor do you want energy (and oxygen) expended on growing muscle or storing glycogen at that instant. What you want is your immune system shut off, and every molecule of energy put into cardiovascular, nerve, and muscle function. Stress hormones do that by shutting off the immune system, and curtailing muscle growth and energy storage. You could actually take an animal with a bacterial infection, and kill it just by injecting a stress hormone analog, like Dexamethasone. Its immune system will shut off, and the infection will advance unimpeded and kill it.
If you survive the tiger chase, then afterward your stress hormone levels will plummet, your immune system can come back online, and your body can shift everything more toward rebuilding what was lost during the escape.
It is a great system, but it was made to operate transiently. The Tiger jumps out, your body shuts off immunity and regrowth, you run and escape, your body swings back the other way and finishes fighting off the flu, and rebuilding muscle and energy stores. Now imagine how you or I will adapt emotionally to the stress of the Apocalypse. Some here may actually be sharpening their knives with a gleam in their eye as they read this, and imagine all the adventures. Rabbits, by contrast, will be chronically stressed in ways I do not think we can fully imagine. Mental meltdowns may not be exaggerations. I fully expect stories of male gang rapes, female gang rapes, brutal beatings, castrations, sodomies, sexual tortures, mutilations, and other horrors we can’t imagine now, to become everyday occurrences in the cities, once the EBT system goes away. Their bodies will gradually begin to break down under that stress, much faster than ours. When pathogens enter them, the pathogens will advance much faster, and be much more likely to kill them, than they will us, with our relatively functional immune systems beating back the infections.
Right before the Renaissance, it was well established that Y. pestis generally killed off those who were malnourished, and was fought off by those who were well nourished. This was immediately after the collapse of the time, which was the end of the crop surpluses of the Medieval Warming Period. Famines had already started to form, so if you pictured it today, those being killed would be the people in the rodent infested cities, who didn’t have good, steady sources of income, or the self-sufficiency to grow their own food. I hate to sound cold, but that would be like killing off every low-income, low-IQ city resident, and many low-income, low IQ, individuals outside the cities who weren’t self-sufficient. The Democrat Party would be savaged.
Those who were smart enough to have large incomes, or self-sufficient enough to grow their own food and protect it would be fine. It would, very quickly, produce a K-selected society, be removing all the r’s.
Add in that disgust is the first defense against most diseases, and liberals score low on disgust (again reduced amygdala), and not only would a disease probably kill them preferentially, they would tend to be exposed at a much higher rate than us as well, because they wouldn’t have the brain wiring to avoid the exposure in the first place.
It is a K-selected world, some of us think by design.
Hey Anonymous Conservative I was going to ask these two questions in a different post but I thought it would of been wrong in the one that I was going to posted.
Can I ask you why is it more common today for many of K type people to be more often religious (in the traditional sense) ?
This is not say that r type Liberals are not religious thinking in other areas such as Feminism or that they not religious when it comes to the State, just more that they don’t think of the afterlife as much.
Also do you think that during the later stage of the Roman Empire (and after the fall) the rise of Christianity was this due more to r types, K types or both perhaps both types in the European populations?
I only ask this because no one I know has got a great answer (some even think that the fall of the roman empire if not cause by Christianity it was a least accelerated) .
I would think it might of at the start of been more the K selected people due in part the corruption of the old Roman ways, the state and the old religions. That they might of been more attracted to both the bravely that the early Christian show (many of them even risking and willing to die if they had to for their beliefs), the traditions (especially family and community), laws and values.
And then later it become alright by law to be a christian so then the r’s types needing something new to follow and also since the State was failing decided to convert.
But then again this was in a time of major r selected population and the christian might of done what they did due to the reward in heaven and the fact that the teaching aloud for pacifism.
I must say one thing the r types might of done right in history is to help (by accident since they are not good people) bring down the Roman empire traditions and gods during the right time for the rise of Christianity. Early Romans or Greeks would not of converted to an alien religion and especially to one that has the teaching of turn the other cheek, And don’t see any other place or time period where the spread would of happen. And it may not of happen if it did not happen then. Just think of what the rise of Islam might of been without Christianity.