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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl
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u/ItsJackWill 4h ago

Hindsight is 2020, so let’s not bring it back.

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u/bauhassquare 4h ago

Well, we didn’t really learn anything from 2020 unfortunately

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u/-Unnamed- 3h ago

We learned that there is a large portion of the population that is extremely selfish and stupid and dangerous.

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u/ChickenChaser5 2h ago

And more recently that people really dont have a problem with injecting big pharma into themselves if it helps you lose weight.

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u/vic_lupu 51m ago

Oh yes, that’s true. “But is killing just the old and sick - I am young and healthy, why should I stay at home?” Spreading that stuff around and then ending in an overwhelming hospital that is trying to safe the old or sick, I know one person like that, then complaining about the doctors, because he was still having some issues after the hospital.

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u/FattySnacks 2h ago

No we already knew that

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u/Oneils2018 2h ago

Yeah like forcing people into their homes causing a massive mental health crisis which then led to massive riots and burning of multiple cities.

It also created a massive distrust in the media and the government, as a lot of what they were saying has been disproven.

Also the aspect of adherence to the status quo was crazy during the pandemic. Anyone who went against the status quo was black listed, labeled as every derogatory statement you can use, and just generally ignored. Then it turns out many of those claims were true.

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u/HausDePotat 2h ago

Aren’t you tired of being wrong yet?

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u/WriterPlastic9350 2h ago

Which claims. Be specific.

causing a massive mental health crisis which then led to massive riots and burning of multiple cities.

Are you characterizing the riots in response to the state-sanctioned murder of George Floyd as being caused by "a mental health crisis" instead of, yknow, state-sanctioned murder?

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u/Oneils2018 1h ago

Okay lot to digest here. I guess ill start with myocarditis being linked to the covid vaccine, which was taught as heresy in 2020 but now https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/12/myocarditis-vaccine-covid.html

Research is actually being done.

As for the George Floyd comment, I don't know what kind of sheltered space you live in, but in no way shape or form was that a "state sanctioned murder", especially involving physical state of the victim George Floyd.

You live in such a privileged life so sheltered from reality that you equate the case of George floyd to a state sponsored execution... do you know what those look like? It looks like families being lined up and shot because of the sins of their father. It looks like people being jailed indefinitely because of their speech, it looks like public hangings because they spoke out against people like you who require strict adherence to the accepted speech.

Maybe time to reflect and possibly see if "maybe I'm the bad guy"

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u/NecessaryFish8132 3h ago

This comment is so perfect

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u/bauhassquare 2h ago

Matchbox 20 was also going to do their “matchbox 2020” tour that year - heartbreaking loss of opportunity

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u/roguefilmmaker 4h ago

Brilliant wordplay

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u/DickButtPlease 2h ago

Looking back, it’s a little bit fuzzy.

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u/CaramelClean3833 1h ago

Fuck. Also, the pandemic last time happened right when the world was uprising, and pushing back. So....welcome home?

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u/tamsui_tosspot 1h ago

Hindsight is 2020

Looking back it's still a bit fuzzy

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u/EmperorUmi 4h ago

Whooshing noises

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u/Zombies4EvaDude 4h ago

Thats the joke

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u/ItsJackWill 4h ago

Both. 20/20 vision and the year 2020, which is when the Covid pandemic started.

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u/ExoticToothpaste6989 4h ago

Covid 2 : Russian Boogaloo!

This time. It's a plague.

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u/always-wash-your-ass 3h ago

The shortbus is thataway.