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  Any fungus is just going to kill you and feast upon your decomposing body, we ain’t getting functionally immortal cordyceps zombies out of this deal.
context: fun fact: the cordyceps fungus has been found to not touch the ant’s brain. It merely grows through the ant’s muscles and controls its whole body. Which honestly is more terrifying than if it went for the brain. >
  
  That makes The Last of Us even MORE horrifying.
  Imagine being trapped inside that body, fully conscious, as your body attacks people and rips them apart. >
  
  From the game files 
  
  Some survivors believe that the infected person's mind is still intact, but trapped in their own body, as seen by a crying runner that was distressed after attacking, killing, and eating one of her friends.[5] >
  
  Guess it's even more poignant when Ellie asks Joel if it's hard to kill Infected because they were people once.
  They might still be. >
  
  This explains something I wondered about with TLOU. Many infected people were armed, and all things being equal the 9mm exit strategy is a better way to go then letting the fungus kill you. So why didn’t more people take the “World War Z” exit? 
  Its because the fungus wouldn’t let them >
  
  That would be solid if we hadn’t just seen Tess sacrifice herself while infected. >
  
  Spoilers ahead :
  Yes Tess went the martyr route. But they clearly established with the “kiss” Cordyceps can control the host. Looks like it took every ounce of Tess’ formidable willpower to flick that lighter, and physically it didn’t look like the fungus spread that far. If flicking a Zippo is a contest of wills vs the fungus at an early stage of infection, pulling the trigger of a gun is probably impossible. >
  
  Less than a day right? Didn't she get bit earlier that day? 
  If we assume she had control of her body until the infected man walked up to her, then we can assume the fungus hadn't taken control yet. She was slowing down from fear, and the infected sensed the infection in her, and wanted to help it spread. She probably had seconds to ingite that lighter. 
  The fungus spreads fast in optimal conditions, but I don't think we have an understanding of the standard rate of infection from bitten to controlled. 
  *Side note, that scene where Ellie plays with the stuck runner before killing it? Even more chilling if we accept there was a semblance of human consciousness still left. 
  Maybe this also means there isn't just a vaccine, but there could be a treatment depending on how long someone has been infected. >
  
  Killer fungus, so hot right now >
  
  I wonder why  🤔 >
  
  Who am I? >
  
  I'm more worried about fungus that can infect plants and destroy our crops. >
  
  That's another movie (interstellar) >
  
  The next logical movies would be fungus that infects and kills our water and then another movie where fungus infects and kills our air. >
  
  Oh my God, the fungus is the Republican Party! >
  
  At least they don’t kill trillions of sacred American Bald Eagles with oversized fans! >
  
  My good friend, sometimes sarcasm doesn’t translate well, even when greatly over exaggerating. You caught the Reddit karma train today I guess. >
  
  Someone needs to make a sarcasm bot that knows sarcasm and says “it looks like you dropped a /s!” >
  
  I mean “a trillion bald eagles” is pretty clearly a joke, an /s shouldn’t even be necessary lol, but then again here we are, so maybe it was. >
  
  Coccidioides Immitis
  Native to the Central Valley in California.  I’m a CLS student at a hospital and my trainer just had a patient who’s sputum sample grew this mold.  Very infectious. The mold can be kicked up in the dust and inhaled >
  
  Is this what is commonly called "valley fever"? >
  
  When society collapses and humanity is on the brink of extinction, I have a rock-solid plan to live for another ten years: I will move to Utah. That place is usually about ten years behind everywhere else. This only makes sense during a true catastrophe, since it’s only slightly more desirable to be in Utah than it is to be dead. >
  
  Bad idea. The Great Salt Lake is drying up and blowing toxic dust all over the state. >
  
  Soon it will just be The Great Salt. >
  
  That’s just r/thelastofus2 >
  
  HBO's marketing department has really crossed the line.  I think I'll send a very sternly written lettee ssijfsijgvfs fjiJFis"GGGGgjgn >
  
  Did we lose you? Are you there?!
  Oh god help us all! >
  
  Bomb! Bomb seluruh kota dan semua orange di dalam nia. >
  
  It was a nice subversion of the usual trope. In outbreak movies it’s always the bloodthirsty general wanting to contain it by killing everyone while the plucky scientists race for a cure, this time it was the general asking the scientist for a cure while the scientist insisted he needed to start bombing. >
  
  Now, mycologist can feel what I feel whenever I see a show with a computer hacker in it. >
  
  I'd link to the NCIS 2 users typing on 1 keyboard vid but I don't want to risk your wrath. >
  
  I will only believe that the writers were intentionally trolling the audience because I refuse to believe they are that stupid. >
  
  I have a reason I think that happened. It reminds me of one thing in history. Playing a computer game that uses WASD for moving for player one, and the arrow keys for player two. Nothing else makes sense. So my estimate is that this was written by somebody who played a 2 player computer game once, and then never even saw a computer again in their life. >
  
  That’s how my buddy and I played Raid On Bungling Bay on his C-64 as kids.  He’d take the keys to control the flight, and if use the keys for the gunners turret.  Damn, that was a good time. >
  
  I'm just hoping some species of psilocybin producing fungi conquer the internal body temperature issue first, and keeps us under control by getting us high as kites rather then something like cordyceps. >
  
  You can’t spell fungi without fun. >
  
  F is for friends who do stuff together
  U is for you and me
  N is for anywhere and anytime at all >
  
  F is for fire that burns down the whole town
  U is for uranium, bombs
  N is for no survivorssssssss >
  
  When I say NO, you say Survivors!... "No".. >
  
  C-c-c-combo breaker! >
  
  Oh come on what the fuck. I just spent an hour googling this shit two weeks ago when TLOU aired. You have to be fucking kidding me. This article is practically verbatim the premise we’re introduced to in the interview in the first scene of the show. Fuck man. >
  
  
  Fuck man.
  
  Yeah that's what the fungi said >
  
  Someone get Paul Stamets on it, right away. >
  
  Idk about this strain in particular but regarding the cordyceps discussion, Stamets actually recently put out a video saying the Last Of Us scenario is highly unlikely. >
  
  The Last of Us in real life >
  
  First three minutes of the first episode of the HBO series even >
  
  The article literally has a segment that is similar to that scene...
  
  The human body’s average temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit has long been too hot for most fungi to thrive, infectious-disease specialists say. But as temperatures have risen globally, some fungi might be adapting to endure more heat stress, including conditions within the human body, >
  
  Couple that with the fact that the average human body temperature in the United States has lowered since the 1800's. >
  
  “Life uh, finds a way.” >
  
  “Hold on to your butts!”