Well There‘s Your Problem - Bonus Episode 34 PREVIEW: Legionnaire’s Disease

Episode Date: August 22, 2023

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So yeah, the disease at this causes is called legion allosis and that started as Isn't it though? It started as two separate diseases So I have a bunch of slides for this in the form of a joke So if we if we skip forward a bit I had a You got a slide of like Legion all of doing what it's doing. We're a slide of This thing take out a macrophage from the inside out, which is kind of cool and gross. It's like the one back.

Wait, which one? Oh, yeah, that's that's that's macrophage is getting like blit by which Legionella. Oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no fuck no, fuck no. Finally, I first, it's not supposed to look like that on this one. And then I got four more, the next four slides are one very weak visual joke about the two diseases that Legionella causes. So please. Yeah. Keep going, Justin. Yeah, cause this Legionellaosis, which is not named for that guy.

All these guys, all that guy again, all these guys again, all these guys, and Pontiac fever, which is not named after this. Yeah. Oh, is this a Disney world? They don't know, I just googled like hot Pontiac. Yeah. I'm gonna, oh, this is gonna be a risky search.

Hot, man, if I see it. It's mostly hot rods. It's mostly hard. There's no like, cars to fan fiction or anything up there. There's a slam 70 firebird trans-am. Oh, daddy. Mm. I want to trans am, but mostly just like switch the badge around to Am trans. And we call.

Yeah. Hang on. Once I can. That's awesome. Okay. Yeah. Keep going. I'm not going to look at it. Get a trans am like fiber tattoo.

Yeah. Liam needs a little Liam time. What slide should we be on? I'm. Well, I got through. I got through the joke about how it causes Legion Elosis, which is not named for the Roman Legion, French foreign Legion, Caesar's Legion, and Pontiac Fee, which is not named for Pontiac. It's an hour on slide nine, which is going to explain Legion Elosis to us. The one after this. Yeah. Yeah, this one. That's what your lungs should look like, right? Yeah, she

feel on my new mode to like die. Yeah, lung lung. The old Delta. Yes. Oh, yeah. Whichever Rockefeller died with this mistress. That doesn't matter. So there are two different cut that Legionaryla does for you. So one is a nasty form of pneumonia, which causes fun symptoms such as a high fever, coughing, difficulty breathing, and GI symptoms, and that takes about two to 14 days after you get infected. And the fatality rate with treatment on that one is about 5 to 10%.

And that is similar to other forms of pneumonia. But I mean, pneumonia, it kills you, but it kills you pretty easily. But I think we're mostly called it the old man's friend because it like, if you're really sick, it's usually the thing that like, proximately takes you out. Absolutely. Yeah, it's, yeah, usually elderly immunocompromised, like, the kind of the, everything takes out those people, though. Yeah, but this is, this is like something that's like deadly enough to do that. And also you,

if you're not careful. Oh, yeah. I mean, this one really like sets itself apart from other forms of pneumonia, because its mortality in the untreated is higher than other pneumonia and is about 40 to 80%. This is the normal 30%. Yeah. I mean, you can kind of get by with some cases of pneumonia, if you're like otherwise healthy, just not knowing you have pneumonia. Like, kind of thinking you have like the worst cold in the world and then you're just kind of like, okay. Yep, it's referred to as walking pneumonia

because it's not literally landing you in bed. You can actually still kind of function. Mm. And at once, don't recommend. Yeah, I mean, you can see the extremely cool X-ray here. They should not look like that. No, that's bad. I would say, I looked at a bunch of different X-rays

of people with legion and losis for this to decide which one I want to put in. They're all pretty gnarly. I don't know what one that looks right is supposed to look like. So essentially what you would be looking at is one that isn't like a clue. It doesn't look like cloudy. Yeah, the ones are supposed to be black because they're supposed to be like filled with, you know, air flash space. Yeah. What you're looking at is like a lot of like dead lung tissue and like flam and stuff and also like, um, because it's like the alveoli in the lungs that like, uh, I sort of like getting attacked here and the like swelling up

and then like, you know, dying, Just full of me. I'm really. Huh? What are the Alviole? The Alviole that look like breathing sacks. I'm doing air quotes here. The like on the end of, you know, the things that you have lungs that you're bronch, you just like branch out into and they do the gas exchange. Okay.

Thank you. Yeah. No, I know. They're pressing on all human beings except Italians who have ravioli's. All of my fucking A.O. Lee is getting inflamed. It's fucking terrible. You're just coughing up sauce. I have the pneumonia. Yeah, so it's like, obviously they look like little tiny like, I don't even really

know how to describe them, little lumpy sacks. Kind of like if you had like, like, little tiny like sacks of grapes or whatever. Yeah, exactly. They look kind of like grapes. They're basically there so that you can increase the surface areas so you get more efficient gas exchange. bodies love to like increase surface air in fun ways. Well, they sure do.

I I prefer what I not to increase my surface area, but I'm really good at doing it anyway. It's like a skillet shoot thing. Yeah. So when I need to, you know, respiration, digestion, cognition, any of that stuff, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

All right, so this fucks you up, is the main thing about it. Yeah, Yeah. All right, so this this fucks you up is the main thing about it. Yeah, basically. So. The really fun part about this is that the frequency and size of outbreaks have been increasing as have the number of sporadic cases climate change really is cool. Oh, I didn't even think about that. Yeah, I put that in as another little bonus slide at the end that we'll get to. I put in some CDC data. Yeah, it's these guys. Yeah, this is the Legion.

It's the American Legion, not Rome or like the fake Roman fallout in Vegas or France. Yeah, it's these guys So in 1976 the city of Philadelphia was celebrating America's 200th birthday even though she didn't Birds indeed Go birds. Go birds indeed. I'm fascinated by this guy on the front row left. The shape of his chin. It's incredible. It really is. So much going on that. But yeah. So these guys in the hats. We're doing a party. Yeah. They were doing a party. Yeah, they were a party. Yeah, they were doing a party. And this party happened to take place at the Belfew Streffer Hotel.

I mean, here's the thing, right? If you're doing like Vesher and stuff and 76 or whatever, like, look at everyone's a veteran. They was a draft. Like, it seems try hard to me, you know? That's why he's one'm like firm stance is going to get people very mad at us is like, no, if you fought in World War II

and you want to commemorase it in any way, you're a loser. It's like being like, oh, you never get over what you didn't high school. Everyone went to World War II. It's more like just a social club for dudes to hang out and it's still. No.

Okay. Oh, yeah, it's still around the, there's a lot of them. I hope you like I hope you like shows with cheap beer and no one checking your ID. Yeah, hardcore shows with bands that are yeah. Yeah, shit. I mean, okay, I do perfectly reverse my opinion on these guys then. Yeah, they just made it 100% serious opinion on these guys. That's a serious stance that every American veteran of World War II was a loose