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Offline zeitgeist

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Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« on: November 11, 2011, 11:27:43 AM »
Sounds like a the gene pool is cleaning itself.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Zuccotti-Lung-Park-Sickness-Demonstrators-Protesters-Illness-133669113.html?dr

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With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long before more campers catch what's being called "Zuccotti lung."

That's what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: "It's a real thing," Willie Carey, 28, told the New York Times.



Yep, TB now this.  Soon it will be known as Occupy an iron lung. :popcorn:
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2011, 11:29:55 AM »
Yeah kids--it's called TB.  The nasty drug-resistant kind.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 11:37:17 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on November 11, 2011, 11:29:55 AM
Yeah kids--it's called TB.  The nasty drug-resistant kind.

You ever do EB?  There is a hill going to the waterfront I use to call luggy hill.   I mean disgusting, even worse than the grinders at bootcamp.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2011, 11:39:28 AM »
Just goes to show you they are so nasty they even make themselves sick.....Too much exposure to a bad thing eventually takes it toll.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2011, 11:44:27 AM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on November 11, 2011, 11:37:17 AM
You ever do EB?  There is a hill going to the waterfront I use to call luggy hill.   I mean disgusting, even worse than the grinders at bootcamp.

EB-Electric Boat?  Nope, not that lucky.

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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2011, 12:21:32 PM »
You left out the good parts:

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The damp clothing and cardboard signs wet with rain are also breeding grounds for mold. Some protesters are urinating in bottles and leaving food trash discarded throughout the campground, providing further opportunities for nastiness.

“Pretty much everything here is a good way to get sick,” Salvatore Cipolla, 23, from Long Island, told the Times. “It’ll definitely thin the herd.”

Some protesters have refused free flu shots, citing a "government conspiracy," the Times said.

There is also the increased risk among the encampment of sexually transmitted diseases, said the doctor, Dr. Philip M. Tierno, Jr. of the NYU Langone Medical Center. And the site's pounding circles could lead to hearing damage.

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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2011, 12:41:55 PM »
Sounds like the early stages of a zombie virus outbreak.  Shoot them all now, for the good of mankind.

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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2011, 01:03:26 PM »
Disease is sweeping through the protests, and they can't be bothered to even maintain common sense basic hygiene.  If it weren't for the fact that at some point they will be returning to the real world and spreading whatever nastiness they are catching, I would say that they deserve what they get. 
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2011, 01:36:36 PM »
Fence them in. That'll take care of the problem.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2011, 02:26:39 PM »
Yes, just like their Communist utopias. 
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2011, 02:30:55 PM »
Christ, it's like "28 Days Later" for real.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2011, 02:33:00 PM »
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With little sleep in cold conditions, cigarettes and drinks being passed from mouth to mouth, and few opportunities to wash hands, Zuccotti Park may now just be the best place to catch respiratory viruses, norovirus (also known as the winter vomiting virus) and tuberculosis, according to one doctor.
For the life of me, I just don't understand how so many of them are falling ill to the same sickness..
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2011, 02:53:06 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on November 11, 2011, 01:36:36 PM
Fence them in. That'll take care of the problem.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2011, 02:58:46 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on November 11, 2011, 01:36:36 PM
Fence them in. That'll take care of the problem.

I was thinking a wall, personally.  Around the perimeter of Manhattan Island.  With steel reinforced concrete plugs in the tunnels and demo charges on the bridges.
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2011, 03:26:09 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on November 11, 2011, 02:53:06 PM
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2011, 10:18:08 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 11, 2011, 02:58:46 PM
I was thinking a wall, personally.  Around the perimeter of Manhattan Island.  With steel reinforced concrete plugs in the tunnels and demo charges on the bridges.

And water to a depth of 20 feet
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Re: Occupy Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2011, 01:21:38 AM »
This is how the zombie apocalypse starts.
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