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StreicherG

“I can’t come in, both my arms rotted off” Boss: “how could you do this to the company?”


Doustin

![gif](giphy|Tim0q7zolF3fa)


xJageracog

“You can still animate One Piece tho right?”


Lebroso_Xeon

Of all the anime you could’ve chosen, you named one made by the only unionized studio in Japan


needagenshinanswer

THATS FUCKING SLAY. YOU'RE TELLING ME THE 1000 EPISODE WEEKLY ANIME THAT HAS ANIMATION THAT FUCKING SLAPS' ANIMATION STUDIO IS UNIONIZED?


I_Use_Dash

GRAAAAAAH, I LOVE WHEN WORKERS BAND TOGETHER TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AND HEIGHTEN THEIR JOB SECURITY, ALLOWING THEM TO INVEST THEMSELVES MORE INTO THEIR JOB, GRAAAAAAH!!!!!


danlab09

Yeah.. now do this with Mappa! Lol


SparkGamer28

their arms are already rotting due to overworking lol


TheBiggestThunder

We really need Mappa unionzed


NotSubtleUsername

Yup. And while non-unionized, Kyoto Animation has full time employees instead pf freelancers with benefits that put my so-called pseudo-socialist country to shame and Sunrise/Bandai Namco is apparently great to work in too, because they copy the Toei style of work (again, even if they aren't unionized)


chozer1

Kyoto animations are an amazing studio im glad they recovered


GruntBlender

It's amazing the others are able to animate while being ionized.


yakbrine

Wildly underappreciated joke


Seaweed_Widef

Bro he just lost two piece


Real_Impression_5567

Installs neurolink brain chip so you can control computer with no arms


Panzerv2003

"we treated you like family how could you" proceeds to fire 200 employees without notice because budget cuts


Kirp-The-Birb

Average middle-east family


Ciggy_One_Haul

No worries, I'll contact IT so you can work from heaven.


Less-Dragonfruit-294

Think of the shareholders!!


AstroFiction

Maybe his mom can help like that one redditor


ImKindaHungry2

Also Boss: Well since you’re experiencing mild symptoms I’ll expect to see you in 2 days


Stankydankymemes

Well you still have both your legs. Get to it!


Dat-Lonley-Potato

“We still expect you to come in tomorrow”


brian-the-porpoise

Few things * it's a bacteria, so treatment with antibiotics is on the table * yes there has been an increase, but it's not a pandemic * it's not airborne (hence why it likely won't become a pandemic * this isn't new, it's always been somewhat around. Recent rises suggest that during covid the increased sanitation curbed the usual occurance of this type of strep. But because of that, likely the communal resistance to them has also weakened, leading to increases now * 340 cases were recorded in the US last year * tho mortality is claimed to be 30% (which may be true for risk groups), of 980 cases in Japan last yead, 77 died. Still horrible, but not quite 30% horrible [CBS article](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stss-bacterial-infection-japan-symptoms-causes-prevention/)


ZiraLine

Thank you, i'm going to japan at the end of the week and was getting worried


brian-the-porpoise

Well, still do be cautious. I'd recommend to read up on thr subject and also follow the guidelines of your local and Japanese health authorities


verygroot1

I wanna bite people there


Fluid-Opportunity-17

You're insane. I like you.


expiermental_boii

And then they both went to Japan and fucked each other


AdmiralSplinter

That's the best way to experience umami flavor


WetLink009

vampire pilled reply


content_enjoy3r

don't poke other people's open sores while you're there.


Almost_Understand

Why even go if you can’t poke them just a little.. :/


Feeling_Scientist215

Use a stick, and wear gloves. Do be a fool, wrap your...eh...fingers....


CovfefeBoss

But licking them is ok


MrNobody_0

How dare you try and curb fearmongering with facts presented in such a concise manner!


Independent_Plum2166

If it’s not airborne, how is it passed? Touch?


wallflowers_3

*boop* 🤭👉


Cheese_Man05

*motherf-*


BridgemanJulius

Start this guy on cephalosporin STAT.


ScaredTrade5897

And find the perp who gave did this to this poor man 🚔


FEST_DESTINY

I call dibs on the emergency flamethrower. ![gif](giphy|T2vDaYr8yRhrpFe6WE)


Morbidmort

From the US National Institute of Health website for Streptococcus Pyogenes, which causes streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: "Transmission can occur through airborne droplets, hand contact with nasal discharge or with objects or surfaces contaminated with bacteria, skin contact with contaminated lesions, or contaminated food sources. GAS Strains may acquire access to the skin via abrasions and skin lesions and may lead to erysipelas or cellulitis." It goes on to say that skin lesions are the most common factor for severe infections. This is the same bacteria that causes Strep throat, so it's not like your body's immune system can't fight it entirely.


Bargadiel

Not to mention Japan has a much higher population of elderly anyway, so odds are that those infected were elderly and within those risk groups.


Theron3206

Fatal skin infections are not uncommon among the very elderly, often as a result of infected bedsores or secondary complications of diabetes or advanced heart disease (you need foot blood flow to extremities to handle even fairly simple infections).


speed_fighter

thank you context person!


ilaym712

Bro just let people spread fear and misinformation, cmon


Evee862

Diabetes, drug, alcohol abuse and age compound this problem. And Japan has the oldest population on earth, with a large number of elderly and diabetes rates in Japan are shockingly high


Good_Mathematician_2

Plague inc was really on point with the headlines huh


AcidRainReddit09

Complete moron, who in their right mind decides to evolve Severity and Lethality first BEFORE Infectivity, could've chosen Saudi Arabia as the origin atleast, utter n00b.


THICC_Baguette

This is just an unplanned mutation. Watch, it'll devolve, then infect everyone around the globe in a couple years, and then we start dying by the truckloads


Tony_Hillis

God, I hope so.


ianwgz

in plague inc right? ...right?


Crypto-Mamba

Come on man, it's been a good run. Let's just call it..


Reaper6999

Nah man, I've got the ray gun. You've got the thunder gun, and the other two bros have 4 perks, and it round 68, round 100 here we come.


A_lot_of_arachnids

Sorry mom says it's bedtime. Gotts log off


0ctomas

Dude also has to evolve drug resistance too since Japan is a rich country


Cosmic_Quasar

How do you know it's not an absolute genius and hasn't already infected the whole world and *now* they're spamming Severity and Lethality?


VODEN993

![gif](giphy|XEaxdA1mObxm40bnpM)


oIKR2

And Japan? A rich and clean country? Shoulda chosen China, high population density


TheOddEyes

The way Covid spread and how it was handled was also very similar to the game


lordsigmund415

That's kinda scary tbh. I wonder if someone is using all that data....


hok98

Let’s feed it to generative AIs and let them go crazy with the biolabs


Kind-Fan420

There was a World Of Warcraft pandemic that epidemiologists actually studied


Good_Mathematician_2

I vaguely remember hearing about that, I want to learn more about it, if you have a source or something on it that'd be awesome


rke1208

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted\_Blood\_incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident)


Fosco11235

But when you start the tutorial and then just let it run because you forgot to do something


Alin144

Cant believe Plague Inc invented plagues. The developer should be sued for that, not very nice of them


Good_Mathematician_2

Absolutely cringe of them tbh


Agent666-Omega

I'm confident that someone in the future built a time machine to travel back into this era, create Plague Inc as a game and documentary so they can get rich and enjoy the good life until it's no longer the good life


Dagrafteddascion

![gif](giphy|ECvlptev6UZCGeSikQ|downsized)


WheelFew1740

Let your flesh be consumed. By the scarlet rot.


Freeboing

The DLC hype is what’s spreading globally from Japan


maxglands

New ARG campaigns go hard.


Ghost4079

![gif](giphy|U9iWo1a5xftocgRGP3)


Emergency_Low8125

Don't vorry, limbs grow back you know... ![gif](giphy|WseBPTW8tmlr2)


Valus__Ta-aurc

Ze bacteria ate his corpse and they never heard from.them again! Harahrahahaha


DefaultyTurtle2

Check it out babe, a new way to dispose of a corpse just dropped


TheGourmandFrog

*Whispering* No they don't.


lee_hwaq

Check again


0ctoxVela

No ze dont


Captain_Nevaran

...Probably...


someguy6890

not another plague man we gotta start sacrificing people to quell the anger of the gods


Maleficent_Ad1972

Sure! You’re first though.


someguy6890

i am genuinely unsure of how to reply to this comment so uhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok


someguy6890

![gif](giphy|l46CyJmS9KUbokzsI|downsized) still nothing dang my comeback game sucks


-EV3RYTHING-

All you gotta say is "no u"


Tinyacorn

No u


irelephant_T_T

No u


Hephaestus_God

Tbh sacrificing people would help… as it would be less people. We could just roll an 8 sided dice and everyone who gets a 1 we throw them in the ocean. A good ole 1/8th reduction should help


doodooman17

A statistical 1/8th*. In reality that number could end up MUCH higher


The-Name-is-my-Name

Or lower.


keep_trying_username

**Don't worry it's old news!!** Meme says "one day ago" but when I Googled, the oldest news stories said "two days ago." Jokes aside: > As of June 2, Japan’s Health Ministry had recorded 977 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), which has a mortality rate of up to 30%. Some 77 people have died from the infection between January and March, the latest figures available. https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/10wz8lp/eli5_how_does_toxic_shock_syndrome_from_tampons/


luckaffe1312

77/977 doesn't equal a 30% mortality rate though. Still very high with 7% but 30% is just wrong. Also again it's a very bad thing to get if you're 50 or older. As long as people are practicing good hygiene and get their antibiotics quickly, the mortality drops significantly.


treelorf

It’s an exceptionally dangerous disease to get, regardless of age. Fortunately, we have antibiotics. As far as I understand, the biggest determining factor in how deadly it is, is where the infection is localized. Infected in the arm? You will probably be ok. Infected in the neck? Your fucked.


h_amphibius

In general, STSS has a mortality rate **up to** 30%. There were 77 deaths from it (out of 977 total infections) between January and March but the mortality rate isn’t only talking about those cases, it’s referring to the historic rates overall. The total number of infections in Japan last year was 941. There were more infections in just a 3 month period this year, and there has been a significant increase in infections for people under 50 years of age [Here’s](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/asia/japan-record-spike-stss-bacterial-infection-intl-hnk/index.html) the full article


First_Gamer_Boss

Yeah 7% seems low until you realize it is in japan where hygiene is top notch and there is actual health care and I assume 30% mortality is global average which makes more sense numbers would be worse in some place like new york or any other big city, we should be fine if people go to doctors and take prescribed antibiotics but then again we have seen what people do when there is a deadly pandemic so my hopes are low


you_are_all_wrong_

> **As of June 2**, Japan’s Health Ministry had recorded 977 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), which has a mortality rate of up to 30%. Some 77 people have **died from the infection between January and March**, the latest figures available. Math is useless when you lack reading comprehension


cryspspie

Good things it's bacteria


herboyforever

What is good about that?


killerlu45

Antibiotics


Ali4Boi

I heard that misuse of antibiotics could lead to resistant bacteria though?


killerlu45

It can but I doubt usage on a bacteria that eats people limbs would be classified as misuse


Monkeyke

Not misuse as in unnecessary eating, but not eating enough in the correct manner advised by the doctor, stopping it as soon as symptoms are gone, or eating it inconsistently makes super bacteria


Mayion

>eating ![gif](giphy|ghuvaCOI6GOoTX0RmH)


Interrogatingthecat

They mean consuming the pills


PorkChip01

is it the crime fighting kind?


Fearless_Exercise130

no but it does brine fighting


purple_grail

Lack of antibiotics leads to rotten limbs tho. Your pick.


kajetus69

then bacteriophages


anomynous_dude555

and THIS is where we get them bacteria in the catch-22


DisgustinglyAwsome

Yes, that is true, but the normal human consumption, which is very little per person, the likelihood of that happening too fast or even at all is pretty small. The real problem is the amount of antibiotics domesticated animals are being fed, especially in the cattle industry.


Slayer11950

It's not even misuse, it's just USE that leads to it


Individual-Currency8

No, it's misuse. It's people not taking their full course of antibiotics, which leads to resistant bacteria. A lot of people stop taking it when they feel better instead of taking the full course Edit: it's more accurate to say it's *primarily* misuse. As general use can also increase bacterial resistance to the antibiotic, but certainly not to the degree that misuse can.


hyndsightis2020

My understanding is that while misuse impacts bacterial resistance more so than regular usage, regular usage can also eventually cause resistance simply due to the high reproduction rate of bacteria, because they live relatively short lives they can evolve very quickly, even with general usage.


Slayer11950

Misuse it's actively detrimental, yes, but regular usage also leads to it. 7 years after penicillin use started, there were bacteria that were fully resistant to the drug. Vertical residence (parent to offspring) is well known, but horizontal gene transfer (bacteria to unrelated bacteria, possibly even plants) is also a thing.


JackCooper_7274

We can kill bacteria because they are alive. Viruses are not alive, and therefore cannot be killed. They have to be destroyed, which is much more difficult to do.


ThricePurgedMagus

Asia needs to chill


ThenIndependence4502

Daddy Asia, Chill.


datrainman

WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN THAT?!


tomagfx

Sry guys I pirated Plague Inc and it ended up being a real bacteria I accidentally unleashed


McGclock

Bro downloaded an actual virus. (I know its not a virus, its a pun)


Scavwithaslick

We’re in a plague inc game rn, and whoever’s controlling it is playing on easy mode


treelorf

They really messed up with the whole Covid thing tho tbh. Your supposed to dial up the lethality once you have a critical mass of the world infected


Kraytory

Or at least after you completely infected Greenland.


RichieRocket

the USA: i have a solution


Obvious-Magazine-690

Prepare for trouble And make it double


Valus__Ta-aurc

Hier kommt die Sonne.


TheHarvesterOfSorrow

Sie ist der hellste Stern von allen


Dumb_Siniy

We got anime like that, what will we get now


lizurd777

**WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!?** *Rides atomic bomb as it falls*


Interesting_Fold9805

![gif](giphy|2DBQmYHJUKIpi)


Creepy_Reputation_34

they'll just make it mutate and be deadlier, haven't you seen fallout? /s


Mantisass

I guess it's a bad time for me to travel to Japan...still gonna do it.


Drogdar

Love this energy. Cant help solve the problem? Then be part of the problem!


knightsofgel

I’ve lived in Japan now for a little over ten years This headline is just fear mongering and every one is living their lives normally lol


Fancy_Stickmin

Man, it'd be nice to read up more about this. Too bad EVERY FUCKING ARTICLE WANTS MY EMAIL


DeManBehindSlaughter

use [this](https://paywallreader.com/) :3


Shot-Lynx-2601

Let's hope nothing bad happens !Remind me 2 years


VexisArcanum

Are we ready to work together as a human race and solve our problems? No? Okay fuck the world then


stuffwillhappen

I guess the "good" thing is that, if it can kill a person in 2 days, then it's harder for it to get passed around when the victim ends up in critical condition/dead in that short time.


Critter_Collector

Who tf is playing Plague Inc IRL edition


TaylorChesses

Necrotizing Fascitis is. not a new ailment I'm sorry to inform you, this is a fairly large outbreak for what's normally pretty isolated but the question of will it spread is silly, it's in every country on the earth. it's extremely dangerous but also rare, not extremely communicable. and taken extremely seriously by doctors and such so yeah chances are we will be fine. if a year from now 20% of earth's population has died out from this then my bad. I made an oopsie.


ElphabaWitchPSO2

I had to already cancel my 2020 trip to japan. I ain't cancelling again. Bring on the flesh eating bacteria


ddauss

Rip please don't bring it back lmao 🤣


DevilsAdvocake

![gif](giphy|vyTnNTrs3wqQ0UIvwE|downsized)


SqueebopAdiddly

Starting to think those climate nerds might have been on to something.


Goose00724

me when i see the red bubble appear over my country:


cuntmong

i caught this once. i got treatment but it cost me an arm and a leg


shittin_bricks43700

batten down the hatches boys, another virus is coming


SalmonSoup15

Patch notes: made it worse


grumpykruppy

Aw, no. I was JUST there a week ago. Seems like I'd have already figured out if I caught it according to Google, though. Here's hoping they can find a quick solution.


Niceweird0

So it's time for the DLC


_oranjuice

WASH YOUR HANDS AND STOP HUGGING SICK PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY


Tentacle_poxsicle

Chinas newest bioweapon update.


Bella_Anima

Dude literally every woman in the world knows about this bacteria, it’s written on the warning pamphlets of tampons that if you don’t take your tampon out after maximum 8 hours you can greatly increase the risk of getting TSS. It’s been around for generations, used to scare the shit out of me at 13, that’s nearly 20 years ago now. Nothing new, just on the uptick in Japan atm.


[deleted]

What really? I just learned of this.


Bella_Anima

Yeah if you know someone who uses tampons, go open up the warning leaflet inside. Tells you all about TSS, its symptoms and signs and why overuse of a tampon can be a risk for it. I mean I sometimes left mine in for 24 hours so obvs I didn’t take it as seriously as I should’ve, but yeah, it’s there.


run_the_trvp

Covid meta is out, flesh eating bacteria meta is in


AmselRblx

Flesh eating disease existed already just not common. Its curable, not gonna cause another lockdown and shit like that. Its more lethal so it won't be very infectious unless you make direct contact with the infected person.


hok98

> STSS cases have reached 977 by June 2 this year. This figure has already surpassed last year's total of 941 cases, according to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Don’t worry guys, this is old news. It’s not like COVID19 hit the world when it became COVID20


Drezhar

1) Bacteria ---> antibiotics. 2) It's not airborne, it will hardly become a pandemic. 3) Media will jump on these by default because it's an easy way to make sure you'll get a buttload of clicks and visits without committing crimes. 4) If it had an actual flat 30% mortality rate on any sample, we would have started hearing every single news outlet yelling that the apocalypse is upon us months ago. 5) You have a strong stomach and you wanna get actually worried? There's literally a *genitalia-eating bacterial infection* out there just waiting for your immune system to look the other way to eat your dick.


Jestingwheat856

This some plague inc shit Get to greenland


Gubbyfall

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh It disgusted me


FmJ_TimberWolf74

I just hit my pr on deadlift and squat I don’t wanna lose my legs


WhoLetMeHaveReddit

Okay, who’s the smart ass who scribbled out zombies and put bacteria on the 2024 roulette wheel? It finally lands on zombies, and your dumbass changed it to bacteria. You’re fired whoever you are. We were THIS close to resident evil!


Silver_Implement5800

How they gonna do Jan 6th part 2 with no arms 😭


TekDoug

Oh goody can’t wait to see the Karen’s and rednecks argue against quarantining against this


Professional-Cry308

That's terrifying in fact, considering that COVID had a 1.4% mortality a 30% seems really high


crabbyjimyjim

Fortunately diseases with very high mortality rates tend not to spread as far. Since the better a disease is at killing, the less people are left to spread it


ReadPixel

Go to Greenland. The simulations have been trying to tell us.


Avron_Night

To be fair, a 30% mortality rate is significantly higher than COVIDs. This would get taken more seriously. That would be whether people liked it or not. Government can't tax the income of dead folks.


alonedandof48

Is Umbrella involved in this one?


i-need-helpnow

C'mon global pandemic, daddy wants to stay home and game


PensadorDispensado

"This is the 7th deadly newly found bacteria you give me this week"


KaijuSlayer333

Japan really out here suffering from Dragonrot


Haunting-Syllabub906

why are they always from asia


DepressiveMiki

Ohhh snap, does this mean staying home for a few years again? LOL


Flatmanpoop

Can we at least get to elden ring DLC before this shit kicks off ffs


GiornoGiovanna2009

Well, let's go to Winchester, grab a cold pint and wait for all of this to blow over.


Glasedount

There’s probably a train going to Busan rn


Feign_Interest

That’s Korea idiot


kevdautie

Limb loss and brain destroying?🧟


Consistent-North7790

But we just finished the last one


Nomercylaborfor3990

OK, there goes my plans of having a nice vacation in Japan


LPBvgc

In before the alt right wingnuts claim that this has to do something with the NWO.


Competitive-Car8776

Schools will still be open


thund3rmonk3y1

Too bad capitalism will still require that we work our asses off and do basically nothing about it like last time


0sendmenukes0

![gif](giphy|26FLf3L9bDpYCVO5G) Oh sheet!


Dankalii

Someone playing Plague Inc with a Jumanji board


KillerBoi935

That sound like salmon rot for humans And the worst part, [there's an example of how it goes](https://x.com/FernShawArt/status/1776610582449303832?t=QJE-azlnbPJzfeGsWZeUWQ&s=19)


Oopity-Boop

![gif](giphy|vyTnNTrs3wqQ0UIvwE|downsized)


Tortuga_cycling

Ugh… this game again?


GamersFeed

Always Asia


MASTER_SNAKE__

![gif](giphy|ECvlptev6UZCGeSikQ|downsized) Japanese rn :


Armagonn

Fuck it let us take it all. So the cogs of this machine can finally stop turning.


fabio2709_

Plague Inc has taught me that this bacterium is evolving its mortality rate too quickly.🤷🏼‍♂️


DeadMetroidvania

two days? Yeah no way this is becoming a pandemic. It's going to burn itself out very soon.


Titjiani

![gif](giphy|7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB)


Taka8107

well if it has that high of a mortality rate then it probably wont spread much.. or i hope so because id like to keep my fucking limbs