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Title: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on May 17, 2026, 12:45:21 PM
Maybe unleash a bunch of badgers into big cities to kill all the rodents carrying the disease(s)?

What say you?!?!
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 17, 2026, 12:46:39 PM
Nubbz thinks a badger is a rodent
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on May 17, 2026, 12:49:04 PM
I guess a capybara is, too.  What kind of disease do they have?
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: 847badgerfan on May 17, 2026, 12:53:12 PM
Nubbz thinks a badger is a rodent
Badgers kill rodents and other pests. Like 'Fro. :96:
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on May 17, 2026, 05:40:05 PM
Snakes
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: MrNubbz on May 17, 2026, 06:41:56 PM
Nubbz thinks a badger is a rodent
One that let themselves go as they tend to do at Camp Randall  :93:
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: utee94 on May 17, 2026, 10:23:23 PM
Snakes
On a plane.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: 847badgerfan on May 18, 2026, 08:04:07 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/UNuh0VS.png)
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 18, 2026, 08:12:51 AM
Ladders and snakes. Ladders give, snakes take. Rich man, poor man. Beggarman, thief. Ain't gotta hope in hell. That's my belief. Finger's Freddy. Diamond Jim.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: Wildcat4E on May 18, 2026, 10:43:51 AM
Woke up in the recliner (again) last night about 2 am, had been on the CBS feed to see the crazy ass storms that had parked a county over and dumped about 8" per Ryan Hall Y'all's non-stop live storm feed earlier.

Of course, nothing about that, but a piece on the Ebola terrorizing Africa, and that we should be scared, and we're all going to die.

They'll (try) to have us all in masks again any minute.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 19, 2026, 07:59:26 AM
Ebola is more scary to me than a rodent virus
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: MrNubbz on May 19, 2026, 08:31:44 AM
How about just quarantining monkeys and rats? Of course Congress & and Corporate won't like it but F them
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: utee94 on May 19, 2026, 08:45:51 AM
And bats?

Anyway never happen.  Lots of money in vaccines and treatments for scary new diseases that have been around for 40 years.

Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 19, 2026, 09:15:01 AM
what would Austin be known for if not the largest bat colony?
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: utee94 on May 19, 2026, 09:16:54 AM
what would Austin be known for if not the largest bat colony?
I suppose, the even larger population of imported Californians.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: MikeDeTiger on May 19, 2026, 09:20:28 AM
I suppose, the even larger population of imported Californians.

Do people gather to watch them hang upside down from bridges downtown?  

'cuz I would totally gather to watch Californians hang upside down from a bridge downtown.  
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: utee94 on May 19, 2026, 09:34:29 AM
Nah, you can't get to the downtown bridges anymore, the homeless encampments pretty much completely prevent access.

Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: MikeDeTiger on May 19, 2026, 09:38:39 AM
Please tell me you're joking.  
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 19, 2026, 09:43:55 AM
just like California
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: utee94 on May 19, 2026, 09:44:38 AM
Perhaps a slight exaggeration. :)

Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: bayareabadger on May 19, 2026, 09:49:18 AM
Do people gather to watch them hang upside down from bridges downtown? 

'cuz I would totally gather to watch Californians hang upside down from a bridge downtown. 
If only we could fly
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: SFBadger96 on May 19, 2026, 11:45:34 AM
Close...
(https://i.imgur.com/bp6wInA.png)
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 19, 2026, 11:57:15 AM
that was a good movie
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: Wildcat4E on May 19, 2026, 02:50:20 PM
Ebola is more scary to me than a rodent virus
It's really too lethal to ever spread out of control.

Can't very well infect everybody at the airport, cause you're in a bed with your organs putrifactioning.

Really not a very smart virus when it just kills the host.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: ELA on May 19, 2026, 05:55:53 PM
that was a good movie
The musical is great too.  The Venn diagram of people who like both, might just be me
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: SFBadger96 on May 19, 2026, 07:39:12 PM
Did not know there was a musical...
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: MrNubbz on May 19, 2026, 09:55:47 PM
And bats?

Anyway never happen.  Lots of money in vaccines and treatments for scary new diseases that have been around for 40 years.
I meant Congress and Corporate being the monkeys and rats,which of course they are
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: Cincydawg on May 20, 2026, 11:13:51 AM
I had a neighbor in Cincy who was one of the CDC's top experts in ebola.  He'd have to fly our to Africa on a moments notice a few times a decade.  He had some very interesting stories.  He claimed it wasn't really dangerous for him and his staff, but was for the locals. except as noted above, it would burn itself out too quickly.

Something lethal with a long latency period while being contagious would do massive harm.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: MikeDeTiger on May 20, 2026, 12:17:22 PM
Lil' Dawg--or whatever her name here was--worked for the CDC out of Atlanta, and while I don't know what her focus was, I know her territory was a chunk of Africa.  She had to fly there periodically and spend weeks there.  She's in the DWF area now and I don't know if she still works for the CDC or not.  
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: 847badgerfan on May 20, 2026, 01:18:35 PM
Lil' Dawg--or whatever her name here was--worked for the CDC out of Atlanta, and while I don't know what her focus was, I know her territory was a chunk of Africa.  She had to fly there periodically and spend weeks there.  She's in the DWF area now and I don't know if she still works for the CDC or not. 
You are correct.

Lots of fun, she was, at Board Meetings.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 20, 2026, 11:08:32 PM
absolutely, hope she is doing Very well
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: Cincydawg on May 21, 2026, 06:22:49 AM
She posts on FB about twice a year.   Razorchique is quite active on FB.  We also had KStateLady I think?
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: 847badgerfan on May 21, 2026, 08:10:52 AM
She posts on FB about twice a year.  Razorchique is quite active on FB.  We also had KStateLady I think?
Yes, Lane. She's also on BF.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 21, 2026, 08:13:29 AM
not very active
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: 847badgerfan on May 21, 2026, 08:18:49 AM
Kinda like me.
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: FearlessF on May 21, 2026, 08:30:50 AM
can't find her there this morning

oh well, I found this!

https://youtu.be/LaDTBQfngL0
Title: Re: Quarantine ideas for rodent virus
Post by: Cincydawg on May 21, 2026, 06:23:50 PM
Here’s to Bill Snyder.