Plum Island: America's Bioweapons Conspiracy Hotspot

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  • @decodingtheunknown2373
    @decodingtheunknown2373  21 день назад +17

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    • @jessgunn6639
      @jessgunn6639 20 дней назад +2

      dublins pheonix park is more than twice the size of central park,

    • @elidblfap2818
      @elidblfap2818 19 дней назад +2

      Tell us more about your aunt showering 😊

    • @GrievousReborn
      @GrievousReborn 10 дней назад

      What the hell is double glazing?

  • @tommiefunk2099
    @tommiefunk2099 20 дней назад +137

    Maybe the real bio weapons are the friends we make along the way.

    • @blindyeti7313
      @blindyeti7313 20 дней назад +8

      This is the first clever reworking of that trite saying I have seen in a long time. Well done random stranger.

    • @tommiefunk2099
      @tommiefunk2099 19 дней назад +7

      ​@blindyeti7313 thank you good stranger! But my favorite one came from this quote. "Maybe tue real bodies in the water were the friends we made along the way."

    • @williammatthews693
      @williammatthews693 18 дней назад +3

      I like to think that.

    • @SugarandSarcasm
      @SugarandSarcasm 13 дней назад

      @@tommiefunk2099either one works well 🤣

    • @CashelOConnolly
      @CashelOConnolly 6 дней назад

      Bitter?

  • @elenacruz6979
    @elenacruz6979 20 дней назад +170

    Just wanted to say that bull calves (male baby cattle) who aren’t going to be used for breeding later are usually castrated while young and turned into steers to reduce aggression as adult bulls can be quite dangerous, so it would be very important to have steers and not intact bulls in a lab setting. I’m speaking as an LVT and a farmer.

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 20 дней назад +23

      I could only imagine the chaos at a lab with a herd of unclipped bulls. 😂

    • @akchuck100
      @akchuck100 20 дней назад +7

      Doesn't the testosterone also affect meat quality?

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations 20 дней назад +8

      ​@akchuck100 In pigs it does. In cattle I really don't know...

    • @meganking3762
      @meganking3762 20 дней назад +14

      ​@@akchuck100 Yes. Testosterone in high levels makes meat taste more "sour" or "gamey" depending on the breed or species.
      Testosterone grows muscle for fighting. Castrated animals have very little to no will to breed, this reduces the will to fight, and makes them calmer. Calmer animals eat better, don't have crazy wounds from fighting or escaping pens to try to breed, and usually grow very well in fatty muscle that's better at holding onto nutrients.

    • @Chris-hx3om
      @Chris-hx3om 20 дней назад +8

      Same as dogs. If you have a male pup, get his nuts removed before they drop and you'll have a much calmer (and nicer) pet.

  • @thesimpsonnns9726
    @thesimpsonnns9726 20 дней назад +137

    Anyone else listen to these whilst falling asleep?

    • @kathryncumberland
      @kathryncumberland 20 дней назад +8

      No cuz I like to hear the entire story and retain the information. But I get it.

    • @oscaranderson5719
      @oscaranderson5719 20 дней назад +13

      @@kathryncumberlandthat’s why I watch it twice 😅

    • @nicolejellema1412
      @nicolejellema1412 20 дней назад +6

      Watch every day, listen every night

    • @ChakasCave
      @ChakasCave 20 дней назад +4

      Mr. Revenant for sleep

    • @MichaelEilers
      @MichaelEilers 19 дней назад

      The entire point of the channel is to be unsettling and disturbing??

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 19 дней назад +19

    1:25 - Chapter 1 - Sounds charming
    3:00 - Mid roll ads
    4:45 - Back to the video
    8:00 - Chapter 2 - Plumbing the depths
    21:55 - Chapter 3 - Traub le in parasites
    27:05 - Chapter 4 - Key lyme die
    38:30 - Chapter 5 - Key lyme die ; electric boogaloo
    40:15 - Chapter 6 - Rocket raccoon's big day out
    46:50 - Chapter 7 - Landing a plum role

  • @whycantibefree
    @whycantibefree 20 дней назад +24

    I was living in the UK during the massive foot and mouth outbreak, in the early 2000’s I will never forget the sight of huge piles of burning animals all over the country side as I drove home from work. It was so surreal.

  • @bradlevantis913
    @bradlevantis913 19 дней назад +26

    40:07 army “let’s create a weapon that makes soldiers itchy”
    Army Supply “allow me to introduce the wool sweater”

    • @nunyabiznez666
      @nunyabiznez666 15 дней назад

      Uugghhh.....I hate wool, especially if I'm wet. That made it all the worse having to wear one at Navy bootcamp in Winter 😬

  • @jameskesterson5348
    @jameskesterson5348 20 дней назад +60

    Don’t forget that emus have won two wars lol

    • @BBulletin
      @BBulletin 20 дней назад +3

      Emus will doom us all!

    • @sarahissersohn5495
      @sarahissersohn5495 20 дней назад +13

      @@BBulletinwell I, for one, would like to welcome our new emu overlords

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 20 дней назад +2

      You know Emu Field?
      That's where the UK tested their nukes.
      Guess why.

  • @The_Drunken_Skeptic
    @The_Drunken_Skeptic 20 дней назад +16

    Simons personal hell would probably be having to read a script about astrology

    • @kaitlynnp582
      @kaitlynnp582 20 дней назад +4

      I would really enjoy that.

  • @BarneySm0kesCrak
    @BarneySm0kesCrak 20 дней назад +65

    Leads chemical symbol is Pb which stands for plumbum which is the origin for plumbers as they used to use lead pipes

    • @nicoler.wunderink_2874
      @nicoler.wunderink_2874 20 дней назад +9

      You could say that "Today I found out'

    • @SavageMonkeyJizz
      @SavageMonkeyJizz 20 дней назад +8

      Had a mate with the nickname plumbum

    • @paulhall9713
      @paulhall9713 20 дней назад

      @@SavageMonkeyJizz Sounds like a level headed straight up kind of guy.

    • @lauravastag8587
      @lauravastag8587 19 дней назад +6

      Well damn. I wasn’t supposed to do anything this weekend, but here I am… learning new shit

    • @SirLightfire
      @SirLightfire 7 дней назад

      Congratulations, you win a straight, purple lead ass
      A plumb plumb plumbum bum

  • @kellyngrey4950
    @kellyngrey4950 20 дней назад +30

    In 2009 I came down with swine flu. I was so terribly sick with a fever of 103f/40c. It dawned on me that this was the reason why fevers could kill people before the discover of aspirin and anti-fever medications.

    • @johnmiller8975
      @johnmiller8975 14 дней назад +2

      i got scarlet fever in the mid 60's at like 3 or four years old
      was close run thing

    • @kellyngrey4950
      @kellyngrey4950 13 дней назад +3

      @@johnmiller8975 Yeah, modern medicine and vaccines are amazing. I adjunct history at a uni and always show students pictures of diseases - like small pox, VD, bubonic plague, etc. I also like to show them water born GI diseases like typhoid fever and rice water diarrhea. Given that they just lived through covid, they have a much greater understanding and appreciation of how disease impacts and changes the course of human history than my students did prior to 2020.

    • @johnmiller8975
      @johnmiller8975 10 дней назад

      @@kellyngrey4950 excellent & thank you we would not be where we are without you guys

  • @defecakes845
    @defecakes845 20 дней назад +14

    My uncle worked as an inspector at plum island. He had to sign an NDA

  • @codycreekmore1581
    @codycreekmore1581 20 дней назад +28

    I worked in a Lyme Disease lab in grad school. The bacteria are hard to grow in traditional media because they have strict and undefined nutritional needs. It took quite a while to develop BSK Broth to grow them and you have to be careful as any contaminating organism will easily outgrow the Borellia. Not surprising it took so long to find. I've also never been a fan of the bioweapon/bioterror theory as the disease, while horrible, isn’t normally what you'd go for. Traditional bioweapos are 1. Easily spread, usually via aerosolization and 2. tend to cause very quick and severe disease and death. Lyme is slow and tick transmission means that spread isn’t as effective as other more promising candidates. Other interesting facts include that most of the damage from Lyme disease is actually caused by your immune response to the disease rather than the bacteria itself and that due to a very unfortunate series of events, the Lyme vaccine (at least when I was in grad school) wasn't available for use in the US.

    • @Aaron-zu3xn
      @Aaron-zu3xn 20 дней назад +3

      even it failed to produce a weapon that acts quickly we know them to have attempted it because the japanese doctors from unit 731 were pardoned and their research continued

    • @ChakasCave
      @ChakasCave 20 дней назад +1

      I’m morbidly courteous of what they use. Like how did they kill the North Korean leaders brother what was that shit?

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 20 дней назад +2

      Plus you want a way to protect and treat your own agents. A bioweapon is useless when it hits your guys as well.

    • @michaelf.2449
      @michaelf.2449 20 дней назад +1

      @@ChakasCavethink a nerve agent honestly not sure which is a worst way to go

    • @PositiveOnly-dm3rx
      @PositiveOnly-dm3rx 19 дней назад

      You're using logic on conspiracy theories... conspiracy theorists avoid logic like it's the plag... Lyme disease...

  • @cjvbeezy3441
    @cjvbeezy3441 20 дней назад +19

    Having done some work on Plum Island, it's a pretty cool place with a really fascinating history. Seeing the old ammo dump and rail lines is really nifty... and all of the seals hanging out on the beach!

  • @SilentRacer911
    @SilentRacer911 20 дней назад +26

    FYI, they name storms by alphabetical order from a list… it’s not like a name is chosen specifically for a storm, but hurricane Bob, I like it

    • @better.better
      @better.better 20 дней назад +1

      I think the more to the point why is Bob even on the list. it's kind of like at a job I used to have we had a customer service rep who wore a leg brace who went by "Peggy" which always made me think of that joke from my school years "what do you call a woman with a wooden leg?" similarly there was another joke in the series: "what do you call a man who drowned?" the answer is of course "Bob" so again is Bob being on the list of potential storm names a coincidence?

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 20 дней назад +1

      And if Robert was on the list that year, it would be the 17th hurricane that year. And Bob came around in mid August. Which means quite a lot hurricanes in a short period.

    • @aleksandr6691
      @aleksandr6691 14 дней назад

      @@better.better I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence. The list goes in a 6-year cycle and alternates between male and female names, i.e. the 2027 Atlantic hurricane season will start with Ana, Bill, Claudette, and Danny and the 2028 season will start with Alex, Bonnie, Colin and Danielle. The names are also different for the Atlantic, Eastern North Pacific, and Central North Pacific regions. Bob was probably on the list because they just needed 3 distinct male names for the cycle. Bob was actually retired as a name in 1991 due to the impact the hurricane had (which is fairly common with hurricane names) and the male B names for the Atlantic region are currently Barry, Bill, and Bret.
      And now there is a section of your brain devoted to storing the absolutely useless knowledge of the NOAA's hurricane naming conventions. You're welcome. :D

  • @emmysan93
    @emmysan93 20 дней назад +34

    Fun fact, my ancestor Moses Hazen fought in the revolutionary war on the American side as a brigadier general and was part of Benedict Arnold’s squad or something and pissed Arnold off once. Arnold had tried to confiscate supplies from innocent shop folks in Canada, basically trying to steal their supplies. Well my ancestor knew the shop folks he was trying to steal from and sent the product back so Arnold couldn’t loot it. Arnold got so pissed he tried to have Hazen court marshaled but it didn’t go through. So I have the pleasure of saying my ancestor pissed of Benedict Arnold. 🙏🏻

    • @commonsense571
      @commonsense571 18 дней назад

      Ha! That’s a cool story:)

    • @justincase3772
      @justincase3772 12 дней назад

      Was Benedict Arnold in Canada?

    • @emmysan93
      @emmysan93 12 дней назад

      @@justincase3772 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hazen

  • @skilledwarman
    @skilledwarman 20 дней назад +34

    Oh I need to watch this episode just to hear how Simon handles names like Montauk. I've got an unfair advantage being a local to the area, but it will still be funny to hear him go "what are these names these aren't English!" at every native American location name

    • @AKguru762
      @AKguru762 20 дней назад +4

      I went to middle school in Mattituck!

    • @maeltac
      @maeltac 20 дней назад +1

      I wanted to hear his shot on Wequetoquock.

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 20 дней назад +3

      Down here in Florida isn't much better. We have Weewahitchka, Thontasassa, Homosassa, Ocklawaha, and a place literally called YeeHaw Junction. I don't think there's a state in the Union that wouldn't give him fits.😂

    • @nordisk1874
      @nordisk1874 20 дней назад +1

      @@SkunkApe407dude Long Island got Florida beat! Or is it because I just grew up pronouncing native words so it’s easy in Florida.

    • @nordisk1874
      @nordisk1874 20 дней назад +2

      @@AKguru762I was in troop 39 there.

  • @redhandedjill
    @redhandedjill 18 дней назад +6

    You should do an episode on Morgellons. I think it's psychological but a lot of people disagree. Interesting either way

  • @jasonbouvette1077
    @jasonbouvette1077 20 дней назад +13

    Eight ticks while camping? 😂 That's cute! I live in Minnesota. I walked through my yard to the garage and back and had that many on my legs. If you stick your head out the window before it rains the mosquitoes 🦟 will carry you off.

    • @johnmiller8975
      @johnmiller8975 14 дней назад

      Am in southern MN can confirm do those preventatives for your pets so they don't die

    • @amyselle2034
      @amyselle2034 13 дней назад

      MN here. 3 years tick lyme disease. I'm a gardener. I can't get away from the nasty disease ridden ticks and misquote. Still so sick. Never thought a bug would take me out.

  • @AvaEvaThornton
    @AvaEvaThornton 20 дней назад +15

    I think Katy was joking by insinuating that it was a coincidence, all the sources I can see from a quick online search state that Lyme disease is named after Lyme, Connecticut

    • @katywatson4940
      @katywatson4940 19 дней назад +7

      I’m joking almost 100% of the time

    • @iNuchalHead
      @iNuchalHead 19 дней назад

      @@katywatson4940 That was awesome.

    • @shadowpulpfan1810
      @shadowpulpfan1810 17 дней назад

      @@katywatson4940 You forget, sometimes Simon can be way too literal.

    • @uncleleigh
      @uncleleigh Час назад +1

      It's named after Lyme, CT, which is directly north of Plum Island. I've lived on either side of the sound to the north and south of the facility. My favorite thing was how they always talk about how things can't leave, but I watched the sea gulls (many, many seagulls...) ride the ferry from either side and fly to the island as it goes by and they come back the same way. There's always a way for things to escape despite our best efforts.

  • @The_Reckoning_Is_Here
    @The_Reckoning_Is_Here 19 дней назад +7

    The facility was only moved to tornado alley - I’m sure nothing bad will happen guys. 😂

  • @hermitcrabs
    @hermitcrabs 20 дней назад +15

    Hurricanes are named in alphabetical order, using only one name per letter. Hurricane Bob would have been the 2nd hurricane of the years. Idk why I thought I had to type that haha.

    • @BBulletin
      @BBulletin 20 дней назад +1

      A few of them could have been named for some of my relatives. We, of course, would blame the storm on them. 😉

    • @katywatson4940
      @katywatson4940 19 дней назад

      Well thanks for your engagement anyway

  • @bradbrandon2506
    @bradbrandon2506 17 дней назад +3

    Fear of plane crashes and hijacking is why I learned how to basically fly and land a 747 in an emergency. Dreams are almost completely psychological and symbolic. It sounds like, because your income is based on RUclips, your dream may represent your fear of inability to control your income and fear of losing it, as it can change without your control. I wouldn't worry too much about it. You're literally one of the most successful RUclipsrs that have ever lived and I would hope that you have some peace knowing that your celebrity status provides some sort of stability and safety net. Most people cannot do what you do and you can't really be replaced. People will always want a Simon Whistler. There is no other Simon Whistler, well, not like you, anyway.

  • @katethomas7329
    @katethomas7329 20 дней назад +7

    This episode was plumb full of puns!!

  • @tbh1444
    @tbh1444 20 дней назад +3

    I spend a significant amount of time shouting names at my screen whenever I'm watching a Simon video. Today it was "Benedict Arnold! Benedict Arnold! BENEDICT ARNOL... oh, finally man."

  • @Hollylivengood
    @Hollylivengood 20 дней назад +16

    Lyme disease is a neuro muscular disease. Really bad, and it lasts forever. My neighbor had gotten it when she was about20, back in the 40s. And now days she has a ton of neurological problems that come and go, and occasionally her mind is totally erratic for about an hour...and then she fine. Weird. A guy I knew from work had got it last year, and got it treated right away, and he is fine. Except every once in a while, when it's too hot or too cold, or otherwise something to compromise your immunities, he just collapses, and his legs don't work. He's a chef so that's bad. So it's really unpredictable.

  • @randygorham5016
    @randygorham5016 20 дней назад +5

    Literally watching this at an airport.. Simon just did me in the dirtiest way with that tangent about plane crash nightmares 😭

  • @MikeP2055
    @MikeP2055 20 дней назад +6

    There's a town near Zion National Park in Utah spelled 'Hurricane,' but pronounced the way Simon says it; Hurricun.
    I think we should rename it Hurricun Bob.

  • @akchuck100
    @akchuck100 20 дней назад +5

    You advocate a nuclear bomb 'safety' device encase of a bio accident. This was kind of at the center of the 1969 book and 1971 movie 'The Andromeda Strain' by Michael Crichton.

  • @randallrobertson7190
    @randallrobertson7190 20 дней назад +12

    For decades, they kept that research center on an island, as it was "too dangerous for the mainland" for some reason they are moving it to Kansas now. Seems a nice, central location if something should get out. Smack dab in the middle of the nation's food supply.

    • @SilentRacer911
      @SilentRacer911 20 дней назад +2

      Good to know

    • @esshore46Larry-mq9ki
      @esshore46Larry-mq9ki 20 дней назад

      CIA bio-labs in Ukraine??? That's why they don't want the Russians to take Ukraine.

    • @jaydenhomer4903
      @jaydenhomer4903 20 дней назад

      @@SilentRacer911 bro sounds like hes got a plan💀

    • @LadyLibertyBella
      @LadyLibertyBella 12 дней назад +1

      Isn’t it in tornado ally? That seems.. um.. irresponsible

    • @randallrobertson7190
      @randallrobertson7190 12 дней назад

      @LadyLibertyBella If something gets out, it could be a real mess. However, I'm not sure irresponsible is the word. I think we're being set up...again.

  • @ravenblade4037
    @ravenblade4037 20 дней назад +3

    Half work on the Island and the other half work 'somewhere' in Connecticut. I don't know why I find that amusing

  • @Im-Not-a-Dog
    @Im-Not-a-Dog 20 дней назад +9

    I view farming animals as being no different than farming vegetables.
    In either case, you're still growing a living being for the intention of eating it.
    Just because the thing you're killing cant look at you, it doesnt mean that you arent still ending a life.
    (And most plants are surprisingly aware of their surroundings, so they probably can "see" you even if not through the same means as we see.)

    • @hughman1356
      @hughman1356 20 дней назад +5

      .... just what a dog would say.

    • @Im-Not-a-Dog
      @Im-Not-a-Dog 20 дней назад +7

      @@hughman1356 really? This, comming from "Hugh Man"? Really?

    • @sarahissersohn5495
      @sarahissersohn5495 20 дней назад +9

      Ok quick: both of you, identify some pics that have bicycles in them!

  • @titi4112
    @titi4112 20 дней назад +3

    The University I went to in the US also has a Lvl 4 Bio lab. It's where I did my research for both my PhDs.

  • @PeachM0de
    @PeachM0de 20 дней назад +4

    Thank you Katy and team for putting this together. Have a great weekend everyone

  • @somebodycalledmerlin4786
    @somebodycalledmerlin4786 19 дней назад +1

    I had lyme-disease as a kid shortly before my 6th birthday, but luckily recovered without lasting issues. The worst part of it were the side effects of the treatment, couldn't sit up without getting a headache in no time, could only walk a few steps before getting terribly naseous and was generally pretty weak. All worth it of course, for recovering fully, but boy am I mad, that I had to go through this in the first place! It also had me miss the sleepover in kindergarten and I am so not over missing such a pivotal childhood event. (Also I'm completely ineligible to donate blood now)

  • @listondavis
    @listondavis 20 дней назад +3

    There are a lot of BSL-4 facilities in the US. I'm pretty sure there are close to 10 and we have had some of them around since the late 60s early 70s.

  • @suspicious241
    @suspicious241 20 дней назад +1

    My worst nightmare would be someone forcing me to listen to the sound wasps make while flying around you. Or the sound of a mosquito flying around your head that would also be hellish.

  • @Hilaryous25
    @Hilaryous25 17 дней назад +1

    I had morgellons. My doctor tested the weird fibres that came out of my skin and they were clothing fibres. She then looked further into it and found out that your skin can absorb fibres from your clothing if your thyroid levels are low. She increased my dose of Synthroid and I stopped getting weird lumps of strings under my skin.
    It was the weirdest thing and I'm glad my doctor actually believed me instead of telling me that I was crazy.

  • @XanatosDavid
    @XanatosDavid 20 дней назад +2

    As of 2023, clinical trials of proposed human vaccines for Lyme disease were being carried out, but no vaccine was available. A vaccine, LYMERix, was produced, but discontinued in 2002 due to insufficient demand.[27] There are several vaccines for the prevention of Lyme disease in dogs.
    says wikipedia, sooo did you get the one for dogs or is wikipedia outdated?

  • @tylerdink5128
    @tylerdink5128 20 дней назад +4

    Here waiting for him to mention the montauk monster aka, my favorite pet type.

  • @zazabluefire9185
    @zazabluefire9185 20 дней назад +4

    I think Simon confuses Lyme Disease with Tick born Encephalitis

    • @amyselle2034
      @amyselle2034 13 дней назад

      Okay.....I have Lyme. I have a swollen brain. Which one should I treat and How? Been so sick for 3 years. It's taking everything and everyone I love from me.

    • @zazabluefire9185
      @zazabluefire9185 11 дней назад

      @@amyselle2034 I’m sorry for you and I think you should consult a doctor. I don‘t know whether Lyme affects the brain, only that tick born encephalitis does and that as far as I know, there is no vaccine against Lyme, but there is one against tick born encephalitis.
      I hope you get well.

  • @paranoiarpincess
    @paranoiarpincess 20 дней назад +4

    We get people calling us, trying to sell us replacement windows and doors to which, I came up with the most hilarious response that WORKS!
    “HELLO?”
    ”...”
    ” HELLLLLLO?”
    ”hellomamI'mcalling(somethingsomething [because I can never understand 100% of what they're trying to say]...) windows and doors.
    “oh, sorry. We don't have any”
    *click
    Always leave them more confused than you found them.

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 15 дней назад

      Answering at all is a mistake because it means you go on the list of confirmed ‘live’ numbers.
      Regardless of what was said if you answer you lose.

  • @Ubique2927
    @Ubique2927 17 дней назад +1

    We work a small land holding in the Philippines.
    We have native pigs (boars), chickens, ducks, fish etc. All Totally organic so susceptible to infection.
    We have had swine flu, bird flu and a weird fish disease that killed every type of creature.
    We were very surprised to get these diseases as we keep a very strict isolation routine at all times.
    It turned out that the very government inspectors that were supposed to make sure these diseases didn’t propagate were going to infected areas and making no effort to clean themselves or their clothing and spreading the infections to every farm they visited.
    Needless to say it has cost the government millions of dollars for these gross negligence payouts.
    We have had the police called on us by these inspectors because we refuse to let them in before they disinfect their shoes and outer clothing, wear masks and surgical gloves and wash their hands with carbolic soap.
    They all seem to be ignorant of the most basic hygiene routines.

  • @specracer28
    @specracer28 20 дней назад +17

    I remember when I was a kid the CDC once caught fire and all the parents panicked left work immediately picked up their kids and went home to either seal up the entryways with duct tape or to like drive as far away from the CDC as possible.
    But yeah, living in Atlanta. It is kind of weird that the CDC is just like there. It's like could the world ending viruses not be so close to my hometown?

    • @zonatedspore97acamas
      @zonatedspore97acamas 20 дней назад +1

      Can you elaborate more about everything? What's CDC?

    • @M1ggins
      @M1ggins 20 дней назад

      @@zonatedspore97acamas Centre for disease control.

    • @gjits5307
      @gjits5307 20 дней назад +4

      My money is on Coca-Cola being the world-ender

    • @hughman1356
      @hughman1356 20 дней назад

      I bet Pepsi put you up to saying that... evil buggers.​@@gjits5307

    • @specracer28
      @specracer28 20 дней назад

      @@zonatedspore97acamas The center for disease control. It's the American institution that studies every kind of disease. They come up with the yearly vaccines for the cold virus as well as studying and housing the last remnants of some of mankind's worst diseases like Ebola.

  • @JonPITBZN
    @JonPITBZN 19 дней назад +1

    I agree. I like these DTU episodes that can't be dismissed just based on the title.

  • @Busto
    @Busto 20 дней назад +3

    How about an episode on the evil actions that created Central Park?
    Edit: Everyone should look up Benedict Arnold's real story. It's a bit different than what you learned

    • @michaelmoore7975
      @michaelmoore7975 20 дней назад

      I got one....
      I've got the best true conspiracy story....not theory.
      A threat to health and life. Transmitted by mosquitoes. we released it to generate opposing dialogue and serve as a distraction and focus attention while the real subterfuge was being carried out.
      Used a few times just in the recent past.
      Nobody else anywhere tells the truth about West Nile Virus. *Except me.*
      WNV is _a man-made biological warfare agent._ Fact. And it is being deployed right under your nose.
      Don't believe me?
      Look it up. Type West Nile Virus, then, either _biological warfare,_ biological warfare agent_ or _biological weapon,_ or _bioterrorism agents._
      Read where and how and why it was created.
      The 1st run was just a test. But the 2nd and 3rd were the real deal.
      Look where we released them. Close proximity to major international airports. To spread all over the world. But the results were disappointing. Transmissibility wasn't as expected.
      Mosquitos are notoriously unreliable.
      That's when we made the switch to a swine or avian derived agent. Along came COVID.
      Much better results.

  • @danpavelko8414
    @danpavelko8414 20 дней назад +2

    Great episode! Thanks Simon and Katy!

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 20 дней назад +1

    The song Hotel California.....You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

  • @karenz3853
    @karenz3853 18 дней назад +1

    My brother got Lyme disease and it hit while we were on vacation over the summer and it took him a awhile to get back up to speed (lol) in track and cross country but luckily he doesn’t have any issues left over at this point

  • @kennethcrenshaw317
    @kennethcrenshaw317 16 дней назад

    Simon's "room 101" would be a plane crash while Yoko Ono sings to him while he watches K-drama.

  • @shrapnollr
    @shrapnollr 20 дней назад +1

    I was just thinking, “When’s Simon & Co gonna drop a new Decoding the Unknowns” earlier today, and BAM! when I get home from work, ya’ll granted my wish

  • @eddawson733
    @eddawson733 19 дней назад +3

    8:27. The Department of Homeland Security wasn’t formed until 2002, the lab in question was established under the USDA .

  • @prasselboll
    @prasselboll 20 дней назад +3

    27:19 I've had Lyme disease. Half my face got paralyzed and they told me I got meningitis from it as well. Just took a few pills and I was fine. Tough I must admit, it sounds so much scarier in English. Lyme... Meningitis... Huuu

    • @kaitlynnp582
      @kaitlynnp582 20 дней назад

      I had meningitis as a baby and I have a deaf ear permanently. Different bacteria though :)

    • @prasselboll
      @prasselboll 20 дней назад

      @@kaitlynnp582 I'm so sorry to hear that. It's just recently I've understood how serious it can be.

  • @allisonfisher9304
    @allisonfisher9304 6 дней назад

    Newcastle disease is no joke. There’s been an ongoing outbreak in Southern California, we haven’t been able to bring birds from SoCal to NorCal for a few years, now, there are several counties still under a chicken/poultry embargo.

  • @jamiejones957
    @jamiejones957 20 дней назад +6

    Perfect timing for my morning coffee 😅

    • @mattt525
      @mattt525 20 дней назад +1

      Its time for my afternoon nap in Wyoming. Enjoy your coffee😊

    • @DaftDawg
      @DaftDawg 20 дней назад +1

      Perfect timing for my bedtime - UK haha

    • @jamiejones957
      @jamiejones957 20 дней назад +2

      Australian morning time here 😂 nap well

  • @pjdonnelly92
    @pjdonnelly92 20 дней назад +2

    Central park NYC is modelled on a park in the UK - Birkenhead park on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside.

  • @jakestreeandturf5053
    @jakestreeandturf5053 13 дней назад

    I love when I watch a Simon video after a few drinks and it's one where Simons had a few too

  • @xancypillosi9497
    @xancypillosi9497 3 дня назад

    My grade school principal , Sister Paula , Catholic School , ended up getting Lymes disease. We’re on the middle of Long Island. Always hear about ticks when going to beach

  • @jorgelotr3752
    @jorgelotr3752 19 дней назад +1

    13:15 Simon: I don't know why
    Also Simon, but in previous videos: I once came across a photo of a plane crash with the victims when doing image search and that's something that you can't unsee.

  • @brandonvasser5902
    @brandonvasser5902 16 дней назад

    What an epic party. Waterboarding, raccoon viking funeral, pin the tail on on your genitals, who knows how much alcohol, and a legendary conspiracy from it all.

  • @samipickard589
    @samipickard589 10 дней назад

    Just have to point out that the only animal we've ever gone to actual war with we lost horribly. The Emu War.

  • @smithandshortdogs
    @smithandshortdogs 19 дней назад +1

    Minor point. DHS was set up in 2002 as a response to 9/11. It seems unlikely then that the reservation station on Plum Island was run by them in the 1950s.

  • @BattIeBear
    @BattIeBear 20 дней назад +1

    14:35 Hurricanes are named alphabetically, so the first one of the season is named with an A, second with a B, and so on. They also switch between genders, so if A is a feminine name B has to be a masculine name.

  • @itsallconspiracy2035
    @itsallconspiracy2035 9 дней назад

    17:02
    You're finally seeing our side of things 👀👀
    Hahaha 😂

  • @maddiethomas5892
    @maddiethomas5892 20 дней назад +2

    I've been to plumb Island!!! Or, more accurately, I've been scuba diving off it's coast. LOTS of ship wrecks there.

  • @Chef_078
    @Chef_078 20 дней назад +1

    Anyone else remembering them talking about this in Silence of the Lambs?

    • @katywatson4940
      @katywatson4940 20 дней назад

      Yep, a section heading was a reference to it

  • @alisonredmiles6372
    @alisonredmiles6372 19 дней назад +2

    Using Central Park as a measurement tool is great and all but… how many Danny Devitos is it.

  • @tinehunecke1679
    @tinehunecke1679 19 дней назад

    As so many people do, I only comment to complain: The sound on this video keeps getting louder and softer again. Apart from that: awesome as usual. BTW Wikipedia states that Lyme disease WAS named after Lyme, Connecticut, just as Simon thought.

  • @M-_-O
    @M-_-O 17 дней назад

    I chuckled when he starts to say “Staff” and the editor puts in the stock footage then cuts it off because Simon cut himself off … I see you editor. You’ve been doing it with the music for a while now and this visual “double take” was quite amusing. 5:54

  • @YFRL
    @YFRL 20 дней назад +3

    "Where the rare plum hits" -SW

  • @Werevampiwolf
    @Werevampiwolf 6 дней назад

    "Biological warfare against animals" almost certainly is actually *against* animals, not just testing on them. It's an established strategy in war to try and get the upper hand by starving the enemy. There very much were experiments done to be like "is there something we can drop from the sky that causes all the farm animals to die and causing a famine?" I know experiments like that were done during World War 2, on both sides.

  • @NotGoddess
    @NotGoddess 20 дней назад +1

    Regarding the 'put a nuke in the lab' idea -- watch "The Andromeda Strain".

  • @MisterPlanePilot
    @MisterPlanePilot 20 дней назад +1

    Simon there's no rooster in Wooster 😠🤣

  • @paranoiarpincess
    @paranoiarpincess 20 дней назад +1

    Oh hey, I was born 8 years later with ACTUAL Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. And it's been going “strong” for the last 40 years since!
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    FML.

  • @maeltac
    @maeltac 19 дней назад

    The general consensus in southern CT was that Lyme Disease was brought to the mainland by an accidental release from Plum Island, and a deer with an infected tick swimming the sound. There are plenty of small islands, sand bars, and shoals to make this a reasonable task, and we had _so_ many deer. I was never really sure if this was fact or fiction.

  • @relaxinandchillaxin
    @relaxinandchillaxin 18 дней назад

    "well I never......"
    your dads on one, simon!!!!

  • @doodlePimp
    @doodlePimp 19 дней назад

    "Why don't more places have nuclear self destruct safety measurements?"
    I don't know about you but if I worked a place with a nuclear self destruct build into the facility I would have a secret get-away vehicle nearby so I could get out of there at the first signs of trouble.

  • @robmerrell1745
    @robmerrell1745 20 дней назад

    Fun fact, USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infection Diseases) used to be in same building as the medical and dental clinics at Ft Detrick. I lived there for 6 years as a kid and got many stiches, physicals, set bones, and teeth fillings there. That was over 30 years ago so maybe they're in different buildings now.

  • @TheZogislost
    @TheZogislost 20 дней назад

    I love when you make a stargate sg1 reference/mention!

  • @mariz2361
    @mariz2361 20 дней назад +1

    I'd like to know what percentage of viewers recognise that old dial-up sound the editor put in at 5:53...???

  • @KastorFlux
    @KastorFlux 20 дней назад +1

    Terrence Howard has an interesting "linchpin theory" that has some kind of alternate vision of mathematics and physics. Maybe that'll be fun to look at?

  • @TheMonkeyworks105
    @TheMonkeyworks105 18 дней назад

    Wow... Simon is going HARD with the dad jokes.

  • @clayc8115
    @clayc8115 20 дней назад +1

    I wont be surprised if the Resident Evil virus breaks out of Plum Island

  • @OddRedOne1980
    @OddRedOne1980 20 дней назад +2

    🚨 WOOP WOOP 🚨.
    Unintentional pun alert!!
    Bravo Simon, a pun within a pun. Really you could have downed tools and gone home, your work for the day being done!
    Thanks for sticking around and finishing the video for us. 😁

  • @flushedphoenix81
    @flushedphoenix81 20 дней назад

    Look into the music artist Ren - Ren Gill originally from Wales but active in Brighton. He was misdiagnosed for nearly a decade before finding out he had Lyme which had progressed to destroying his brain he has had stem cell treatment and is in Canada having further treatments. Lyme is a horrible disease if not found and treated quickly

  • @mattaburley
    @mattaburley 20 дней назад

    thank you editors for changing the ambient background soundtrack :) this is waaaay better

  • @Nexus_545
    @Nexus_545 20 дней назад +1

    Late night upload just in time for Factboi to lull me to sleep with existential dread of government bioweapons testing. Good thing Scotland is nowhere near Porton Down.

  • @jamesthorstenson2271
    @jamesthorstenson2271 20 дней назад

    Hey! I know of this place. I grew up in East Lyme / Niantic. You could see it from our beaches.

  • @MrJack123455
    @MrJack123455 20 дней назад +1

    29:16 I think Katie was being sarcastic here, because Lyme Disease was 100% named after the town. The disease was first thought to be arthritis before being declared its own affliction and given the name after the town it was discovered in.

  • @Buggsy1061
    @Buggsy1061 20 дней назад

    So the KEY takeaway from the video, is that Churchill had a ghost infection in his nether regions!!!!

  • @playedout148
    @playedout148 19 дней назад

    11:59 "I think in a few hundred years, people will look back..." Thats an optimistic outlook.

  • @vonlouie77
    @vonlouie77 20 дней назад +1

    He’s is a thought for anyone who play first person games, are you moving the player around or are you moving the world around??

    • @SkunkApe407
      @SkunkApe407 20 дней назад +1

      The directions the player moves the sticks make it obvious that you are moving the character. If you were moving the map, you'd press the down button to move forward, left to go right, etc.

    • @canedust
      @canedust 20 дней назад +1

      Jumping and climbing wouldn't work if we were just moving the map, so I'll say "the player"

  • @rabidmonkey32
    @rabidmonkey32 20 дней назад +1

    "Got a leak in your boat? Slap a nuke on it!" - Simon Whistler (probably)

  • @SweGrlMom
    @SweGrlMom 17 дней назад +1

    Silence of the lambs and Clarice offering Hannibal Lector a better prison on Plum Island, sooo?

  • @daverapp
    @daverapp 17 дней назад

    14:35 Hurricanes are named in alphabetical order. So the first hurricane in the year starts with the letter A. The second one starts with the letter B. And so on. Also, they alternate between male and female names every year.

  • @DokJae
    @DokJae 8 дней назад

    Just on that "warfare Against Animals bit", it would have been handy in the Emu War is all I'm saying

  • @siobhanrikan6428
    @siobhanrikan6428 20 дней назад

    Growing up on Long Island starting in the sixties, and regularly walking to school through a field, put my family in danger that we didn’t even know about. My older sister is one of the early cases of Lyme disease and it went undiagnosed for over a decade. She will deal with the consequences for the rest of her life.But thanks to the research done, she can at least empty and refill the dishwasher without the risk of dropping the dishes now.

  • @bigatomicsloth3369
    @bigatomicsloth3369 13 дней назад

    I wonder if that played into the rise of "rocky mountain fever" that ticks also carry.

  • @NYmomAdrienne3915
    @NYmomAdrienne3915 20 дней назад

    As a Long Islander, so excited after seeing this title!!!

  • @Dogdoc1000
    @Dogdoc1000 16 дней назад

    We learned about Plum Island in Veterinary school. I thought it was pretty cool.