Y’all need some sleep… the government watching and y’all talking to loud
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Like they don’t watch us in our sleep?
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yall scaring me. realizes i started this
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Jk, maybe not.
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anywHooSies
for the sims players
have you ever killed your sims?
- YES
- no, i am good child
- mAybe
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I like to see my sims suffer sometimes
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Slowlyyyy…
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today i killed them all… and left one sims standing… they drowned… the good ol’ pool trick
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Do songs ever sound faster or slower to you sometimes?
- Yeah…
- Sometimes.
- Nope.
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I’m listening to Chain by NCT 127 and it sounds a little faster than usual… not that much faster but a little bit.
Here comes Scarlet the science nerd to talk about how they make the flu vaccine, everyone run! 
What the influenza virus looks like:
The springs are its “DNA” (not really DNA but I digress), the code it uses to make you sick.
The blue globs on the outside are important, those are the antigens, the thing your white blood cells make note of and grab onto.
Step one to make the vaccine: find some virus
They get some virus, I guess from a human, and they grow it in 3 ways:
- Infecting a chicken egg with influenza
- Infecting some cells in a petri dish with influenza
- Make a non-flu virus produce just the antigen
They’re moving away from method 1, because (a) It takes a long time, and (b) That’s a lot of fkn eggs
Step two to make the vaccine: get the antigen ready
Using methods 1 and 2, they take the influenza out of the egg or the petri dish, get it real dead (they generally use heat, chemicals, or radiation, idk which is more common tbh) so that the virus is smashed up, then they purify it so they just have antigen.
Using method 3, all they had was antigen in the first place, nothing to kill, we’re good to go.
Then they mix it with anything else in the vaccine (goo, antibiotics, preservatives) and we’re ready to go.
Now you get the vaccine: it feels bleh but you don't actually get the flu *from* the vaccine
You feel like 
after getting the vaccine, because the injection site might be bruised, and because your immune system is like “What the HECK is all this goop?!” and it has to drum up a fight response, log the shape of the antigens, and calm back down. You might get a fever, but it’s not the flu, it’s just your immune system panicking because it sees something that looks an awful lot like flu (but is just antigen soup).
Rarely but occasionally, people get the vaccine but get the flu later in the season
Influenza mutates quickly, that’s why each year there’s a new one. Scientists have to predict which influenza will happen where, and generally give you a vaccine containing antigens of every influenza strain they think will affect your area, but occasionally, a new one pops up or defies the trends.
The flu can actually be deadly
Plenty of people with really strong immune systems are just out of commission for a few days with the flu if they get it, but thousands are hospitalised or even die from it. 
One of the articles I was reading
It’s kinda technical but not any worse than Wikipedia
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm
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Here I was thinking I was on Christmas break, but you can never escape learning… - Telly 2020
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No, and I ended up in a hospital bed because of it 
Did you set this thread to watching? 
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I have it on tracking 
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Me too 
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I’m always watching
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Are you a scientist?
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I’ve gotten the flu last year- becuase I didn’t get my shot… but then again I always get sick during important events . That week was my sisters birthday and I couldn’t go since I was so sick- my body is like, “OH WOW YOUR BDAY IS COMING UP. TIME FOR U TO GET SICK” that’s what happened one year- my mom took me and my sister to Hersey park but I was sick the entire time-
RanT oVer
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Very smart
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