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Please make videos on the c virus and uroboros virus please And the t virus sub species I don’t even care if you make videos on the individual monsters I just want to know how it was scientifically possible
I can confirm that randomly going half-blind, even if temporarily suuuuucks. Had it happen three times before, due to over exhausting myself, because of insomnia. Or at least that is what I think caused it, as resting as it started to happen, seemed to fix the problem.
@SergioLeonardoCornejo yeah for those that aren't blind would be a horrendous situation of not being able to help or worse, if they are a complete psychopath and start hurting people.
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Same (with Astigmatisms, I think that's the name I don't remember exactly) in my Right Eye mainly and bad but not as significant in my Left Eye caused by mixtures of several strong medications I had to be on for the majority of my childhood for Allergy Asthma, at age 8 I believe it was as bad as an average 60 year old's equivalent... I've already been told one day I will have to without a doubt have surgery so it doesn't progress to effectively blindness, meaning I likely won't just one day wake up and be blind but as I'm 22 now it'll just be more likely as time goes on for it to start noticably getting worse over a period of a few years. So that's always in the back of my mind, even after getting over the sickly childhood it still had to leave me with a parting gift I suppose. 😂
@@danvoyer4105 fair. Only thing with Umbridge…she was meant to be hated. Amy survives at the end, the hopes for the groups fate rests in her. She was meant to be the “hero” but is hated from the first minute her stupid face is on screen lol.
I suffer from occasional visual migraine, around once or twice a year. It doesn't hurt but I do go temporarily blind for about half an hour, looks like a rip in spacetime with oil slick colours and fractured crystal. Weirdest part is that it's hard to tell when it wears off, like my brain still thinks it can see throughout until I try to look at something.
@@winngomez Sorry for your loss, I was worried it was a stroke when it first happened, that was ten years ago. Spoke to my optometrist and doctors and they confirmed it was something that just happens to some people. I'm just lucky they're painless I guess.
I kinda both love and hate how frustrating and idiotic "horror" movies can be. However, it's a shame that majority of them belongs to this category, because horror is my favourite movie genre, and sometimes it's a bit saddening to watch the same movie for 20th time just because there aren't any good new movies.
@@dylanmonstrum1538 I can't even remember the amount of times I've watched Alien; it's the same with 28 Days Later, Child's Play, The Thing and at least 10 other horrors... and The Lord of the Rings.
@@dylanmonstrum1538 Thank you, I don't even know where I got it from as I grew up watching a lot of shitty movies, especially when it comes to horror.
Thank you for this oak. My girlfriend is blind i never thought about her showing emotions until you brought it up. Yeah she has emotions but i never thought about how she shows them. It makes me feel even more special that im able to make her smile.
I'd love it if you looked at the Corvinus family from Underworld, mutations caused as a direct result of immortal blood being introduced to foreign species (in this case, a Bat and a Wolf) and how they both carry their own form of disease that completely rewrites the DNA of humans would be a really cool and interesting thing to hear you talk about
You forgot at the end how the dr's wife goes blind! Not only does it lead to the suggestion that the 'disease' is cyclical, but it also sadly infers that the others--when they get their sight back--will not treat her with the same respect, ie her husband will probably leave her. This movie is based on a book, it's a really great read.
I read the book too, didn't even know that this was made into a movie till today. Honestly, I HATED the book, not the writing (& I also recognised that I was reading an English translation again not the writing), it was the story. I was horribly offended by the expectations of female behaviour & pathetic behaviour of males - NO FKNG WAY would I have been OK w/ANY of this. I've NEVER EVER EVER been passive as a female & have defended myself against technically stronger males MULTIPLE times w/technique & intelligence. I found it a pathetic male wank fantasy of a woman with a CLEAR PHYSICAL advantage allowing herself to be violated & submissive in the name of a male fantastical "higher morality of females" BS which is actually just trying to say "see look, just put up w/this abuse & you will be the better person".
Out of all movies, I'd never expect Blindness to be analysed ever like this. The apparent goofyness of the movie can be understood when you take into account that the original novel (Ensayo sobre la ceguera) was written by José Saramago, who was a Portuguese writer. And as a latina, I can tell you a lot of Portuguese and Hispanic writers use tons of symbolism, allegories and similar methods in their novels and Blindness isn't an exception. As always, an awesome video and thanks for all of them so far. Been watching the stuff in your channel for some years now. If I can make a recommendation, I'd say to look into Bugsnax. Might look like a kids game, but it's darker than it looks and could be interesting for the kind of analysis you make. That's the only thing I'll say about it as to not spoil anything. Hope you have a great day and again, thanks for all the videos you have made so far.
I'm latino and honestly I'm not fan of our classic literature precisely becausr of this. Overly allegorical stuff is not my cup of tea. I just want something that is interesting without dissecting it first.
Going blind would be devastating for me. My main pastimes are primarily sight-based. Video games, card games (like Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!), books and movies. That would create a huge lifestyle shift for me. It would leave me very little of interest to do and, having severe ADHD, I would get very bored very easily.
Music has entered the chat. Even with not seeing what's on the list, you'd learn quick to skip through based on the first microseconds of each track (like CD players that wouldn't display the track name and those tiny ipods that had no displays to show the music info).
@@bleakautomaton4808 - I have plenty of music but listening to music by itself would get boring for me pretty quickly. That's why games appeal to me more than most media. They're active, not passive. They engage the mind and body. They're something you participate in, not just watch or listen to. I'm sure I would adapt, but it would be a hard adjustment, finding things to take their place.
@@garrettromer8499 - Never heard of or seen them, especially since they would be considered marked cards by their very nature, but if they do exist, that would be pretty awesome. Of course plain playing cards would have limited entertainment value. Not much into things like poker and such. Tactile trading card game cards would be nice for the visually impaired but I have no clue if there's such a thing at all.
I'm the same, I've taken to using audible after getting used to podcasts. It actually really helps with my day to day function because I can whack them on and smash out a couple of books while I do the things my focus window wouldn't normally allow. I wait for it to go half price sale and then I use the book tokens in two for one sales, then I just listen to the ones you get with membership until my half price runs out. Then I cancel and listen to the books I got with my credits. I'd suggest the Sherlock Holmes collection read by Steven Fry. 60 hours of information need sorted, it even helps me sleep. As a free option, I'd advise the podcast Welcome to night vale. There's a few hundred episodes of local radio from an eldritch small town. Really helps me focus while driving.
I actually have a migraine condition that is constant. The neurologist told me that migraines are on a spectrum, most people knowing about the usual type, but that some also get a constant niggly ache and dizziness. That is what I have. She called it virtiginous migraine. I am constantly dizzy and off balance, with a near constant headache, which often bubbles up and at times, becomes the 'regular' well known type. It is thought to have been brought on by my head injury around eighteen years ago, where I fell and landed on my forehead and, to quote my neurologist, "the wiring got shorted and doesnt work as it should". I was used to basic migraines, my whole family get them and I already did, but this condition I have now has basically disabled me. I can't work like this. We tried some meds, but nothing helped and some made it worse. It's just how I am now. Long ass way of saying that migraines suck!
Have you ever tried CBD products? I only say because my aunt tried some for her migraines and it seemed to help out a decent bit she started getting back to doing shit she enjoyed.
@@djbird520 yeah (ofc might not work for everyone), but i used to take cbd products and they honestly really helped me. especially with my anxiety, which seemed to be a factor towards the migraines
God I get consistent migraines every couple weeks due to a medical condition I have and during those migraines I feel like fucking dying I can’t imagine that as a constant every day occurrence
There's a show called See where the whole world has lost its sight. The show takes place generations after this has happened so it's just normal now. It was interesting to see how the world regressed but yet how well they dealt with it. I watched the first season it was pretty good.
Ur talking about the one with Jason Momoa right? If so yes it's a really good show and also reminded me of this movie. I watched this movie when I was in the middle of my heroin addiction and it was crazy. Still think about it all the time.
Yeah, I see the comments and the movie's plot and it feels like they're being alarmistic. Ultimately with disabilities like that you just get used to living a certain way and there's basically no part of normal life that can't be solved with something as simple as redesigning some products according to how people is/would be in the situation.
@@kelvinferreira3767 The movie was over a fairly short period of time. It's not at all unreasonable to think that everyone going blind over a week or two's time would change the world dramatically. We would all adjust eventually, but that would take longer than a couple weeks. And redesigning products made for sighted people when everyone's suddenly blind would be rather tricky and not at all a quick fix.
i love these science based videos even when they are on goofy movies or games. science is just so interesting to me for some reason and this is the perfect mix of stuff i like (video games, movies and similar media) and deep dives into why stuff is how it is. keep up the great work on this videos!
I'm a fan of the book Blindness! I haven't watched the movie yet but I know that it was filmed in the city where I live (São Paulo, Brazil), and, funfact: When the movie's director approached Jose Saramago with the proposal to make a movie based on his work, Saramago's only request was that the movie should respect his artistic vision and not explicitly mention where the events takes place. So, while this is never an issue while reading the book, in the movie, I can clearly see that it takes place in São Paulo, but the store-fronts and everything are in english.
it is never the end of the world, i had HIV but when a friend of mine recommended a healer and caster for me, and she helped me out and i am NEGATIVE now, i was tested twice and i am free now
@@DavidVelasquez9 I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that guy is a lying sack of s***. I am sorry. But if modern medicine can't do it Some Scummy snake oil salesman Isn't going to do anything except take your money
Thank you for talking about ocular migraines / migraine visual auras. I like to compare mine to the shimmer of holographic cards/stickers. They have that flickery, shimmery, colour changing effect to them that's pretty close to what I see. I didn't even notice the "blind spot" at first. I thought the reason it's dangerous to drive during these was that the crescent can reach the middle of your vision, but when I tried to look up ways to get them less often, that's when I saw it. Part of the text would just disappear depending on where I looked, like some sort of video effect that pinches two parts of the screen seamlessly together and swallows up the excess. It made it impossible to read and was pretty spooky at first. Thankfully it's not permanent.
I ran across this movie on a 12-movies for the price of one DVD. It's one of those I think about from time to time. What I found haunting is the look that everyone in the group had when they realized they might get their sight back - excitement but dread. For a few I think that it would be having to reckon with what they did to survive and others not wanting to go back to their old lives. It's definitely a movie to think on. I'm glad you did the science behind the illness! And I feel the same about ward 3.
"The human brain, as mentioned, is a fairly complex organ, according to itself" I see what you did there Also, before anybody asks, this is around 25:05
I read this book. It was one of the most deeply unsettling pieces of fiction I've ever read. The implications were enough to give me waking nightmares of me feeling like I was going blind. Amazing piece of writing, but not for the feint of heart.
You basically described my exact experience with migraines! The most fascinating thing I experience is a complete loss of *colour* vision along with massive blind spots in my central vision. The first time it happened my friends pushed me over for “pretending to be blind” (we were like 13) and I got lost in my home city for like an hour
I remember being younger and having the fear of randomly losing my sight. So, as children do, I *prepared* for the occasion by walking everywhere with my eyes closed, relying on hearing and touch. This had the unforeseen benefit of being hyperaware of my abusive siblings' nonsense, and I could avoid them with ease. Relying on my hearing and touch had made me very aware of tiny details like the sound of breathing and miniscule shuffling, so neither of them could sneak up on me. I'm now an adult and, because I haven't practiced in years, lost this ability. If anyone wants to try the same thing, learn from me and keep up on your practice or you'll lose it.
I used to do the same, blindfolded myself to walk around the house to make sure I could and tried to teach myself the braille alphabet. I watched/read a lot of little house on the prairie so i thought blindness could happen to me after an incident/injury
I am living for how heated you're getting over the absurdity of what happens in the movie. Most of the time, I've already seen the movie you're covering, but this time I shockingly have not. Though I may have to after this. Thanks Papa Roanoke!!!
@@Alphatrix101TX Lol, one spinal injury and a shattered ankle later and I was firmly on the ground …I know myself better than to risk being around heights! That would just be silly!
Hey Roanoke. We have the same exact issue with migraines, including the visual ones. If you haven't had your blood pressure checked in a while, I would do that. I found out I had high blood pressure, and getting on the meds and changing my diet/exercise habits, I haven't had one since.
I just re-watched this movie yesterday, awesome that the nosy algorithm sugested this video. your talk about neuropathy and migraines and the euphoric stage reminded me of "Perfect Sense" (2011) another loss of sense movie that deserved more love. the music, the story and the sadness of it all would make awesome review material :)
Thank you for describing your migraine attack experiences. I've had that happen once, with the crescent moon etc... I thought I was having a stroke. It hasn't happened before or after that one time. It was pretty crazy.
I've only ever had one migraine with aura and it scared the daylights out of me as I already had the usual symptoms I get (headaches, nausea and light sensitivity), but all of a sudden my vision started filling with spots as I about to cross the road. Worse and scariest experience I've ever had with a migraine for not only surprising me but it's spectacular timing.
Totally relate to the migraine triggers. My wife gets them from certain ingredients as well. MSG is a big one, sodium nitrate and other "manufactured" nitrates trigger them as well. Oddly, naturally occurring ones like those those from celery are ok. Thankfully there are more and more producers making "naturally cured" products again so she can now enjoy hot dogs and bacon without having them trigger a migraine. Will have to check on the B12 trigger. Thank you for making all these videos. They never disappoint!
Every time I hear neuropathy and myelin on this channel I'm reminded that the creeping numbness in my legs and right arm is only going to get worse lmao MS is a hell of a thing
Not a trigger or anything just saying can definitely relate with it being terrifying and god damn thing Channel has mentioned things relating to it more often than any others I follow
haha right, I watch youtube to forget about my slow descent into a vegetable thanks to PPMS. My lesions say hi to your lesions. lets hope a cure, or at least something that halts progression is found in our lifetimes.
Your description on the blind spots during a migraine is exactly what I'm experiencing right now. I'm hoping I'm just dealing with a very long silent migraine because of being sick and not some major issue. Short to suffice, migraines with auras suck even when they aren't debilitatingly painful.
Man, the only time in my life that I needed someone to wipe my butt during adulthood was when I was recovering from major abdominal surgery. I literally could not reach behind me because pain brought me to a halt before I could get back there. Massive kudos to Mom for that help btw. But yeah, being blind isn't exactly an excuse.
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Roanoke gets it! Migrains are always "Really...?" moments for me, especially when I just wake up and got a day or work ahead of me. Excedrin is a damn panacea for me, because when it's bad, that migraine is every problem on the world for me, wrapped around the back of my skull and across my brow like a neat bow. Soul brother, these vids are always great. Thanks for the content always my dude. I gotta eat more carrots to obviously counter these things in life
My second significant Head Bonk resulted in some sort of optical damage, and that STILL freaks me out. Hit my head on a chair, boom, I’m seeing double, PERMANENTLY. Thankfully, a pair of glasses fixes that fine, but it’s been hard and kinda scary to accept that my vision is just… like this, now. It definitely worsened my fear of getting permanent spots in my vision, going blind, etc.
@@steppin-razor lmao i mean tbf it's almost certain, seriously. People have had their eyes pushed out of place because a foreign object was stabbed and stuck straight through their face, physically keeping their eye out of place. The eye STILL moved into place on it's own after it was removed. If you hit your head and your eye is no longer functioning right, it's almost certainly some form of brain damage.
Yay!! You just made my night!! I’ve been hoping you’d do a video on this! This movie was so unsettling at times and such a creepy concept. Love your channel! Keep up the awesomeness
This Disease was totally Miraculous: the whole conflict within the Film is that all the characters only ever see themselves, and since they make no effort in "seeing" others (as in having empathy for others in their everyday lives), their Sight Privileges are revoked. Once the primary group developed a more intimate bond as a Family would (they are truly "seeing" each other), their Sight finally begins to be restored. The Doctor's Wife, who helps everyone throughout the film, slowly becomes cynical and jaded in her effort, and while the Family begins to see again, the Wife begins to go blind in the End.
Reminds me of something my Grandpa used to say; "In the Land of the Blind, the One Eyed Man is King". NOW IF ONLY SHE HAD ACTED LIKE IT FROM THE START.
This movie fucked me up man. I loved it, it's a great flick, but yeah, the shit they had to go through fucked my head up for sure. Julianne Moore absolutely kills it on this role tho
@@RoanokeGaming HELL NO!! Not if I were the one person that could actually see.... dude with the gold, and the food woulda been super dead the first time he tried exploiting everyone... I can see you... you can't see me. Ugh. Such a great flick, so glad you're covering it!
Hey Roanoke, i know I’m a little late to the party, but I was really fascinated when you talked about your migraines, because I have similar experiences. I’m not exactly sure what triggers it, but I get the half crescent flashies, and some nasty headaches after them. Felt like I was going crazy trying to explain to people what was happening to me.
Jesus I actually got chokeslammed into wonderland by a migrane today and words cannot describe how thankful I am for this video. It helped so much god bless your heart dude
I get those exact same symptoms on the rare occasion when I get a migraine which tbh I'm glad it manifests as blindess and not the insane pain that usually comes with migraines
This video made me chuckle a bit because I also am terrified of going blind and I had a 2 month bout of optic neuritis in my left eye as a relatively healthy 23 yo woman starting last October. And right now as I am typing this I have horrible neuropathy in my hands and feet that may be due to pregnancy or my pending dx of MS. I love your videos and just found it funny that I have experienced both conditions recently in my life!!
This used to happen to me as a kid! You described it exactly! A kaleidoscope, and the ring starting in the middle, going bright white or silver, spreading, and then almost completely blinding me for a few minutes before scattering to the peripheral. Afterwards I feel light headed. I never looked into it but it scared the hell outta me. It only happened to me three times. Last time was about 6 years ago. I’ve always wondered how and if it’ll happen again.
@@RoanokeGaming Its a Roanoke video, the real question is, how many times will I keep watching it before I get tied of watching it? The Answer: Never going to be tired of watching a Roanoke Video
You should cover Perfect Sense, it’s worse than this and it shows you from a world standpoint of ppl losing their natural senses. I want to hear your stance with that film
I remember that there were even worse diseases explored in some show episodes and other barely known movies. Like I remember a sci fi show where they make an entire episode about a virus making male humans turning outright hostile and rabid against the human female population. It did not ended well. ı dont remember its name thought.
@@capriciousstudent I know right! I think its either a sci fi show series where each episode takes a different topic or a sci fi horror show series I cant recall its name albeit it was somewhat popular
@Disabled-Megatron no its not man bad the episode actually shown its no mans fault where a literal extraterrestrial invasion force nefariously infecting innocent people that has no comprehension nor realization of what they are doing
@@TheShark110 exactly you are so on point many people including myself have completely forgotten the shows actual name what an underrated series it was
The fact your channel is called Roanoke Gaming, always makes me want to recommend you a game I like. Outward, fantasy kinda post-apocalypse where a big magic event ended up altering a bunch of creatures in quiet a way. I don't think there's much information to find in there to make any educated guesses, plus it's magic, so reasonably explaining it would be wonky. But I think there's just enough to make some theories and explore the creatures themselves like you did in DOOM mobs series. Anyway, I love that game so would like you to take a look at it )
Literally my worst fear . As someone that was temporarily blinded for a few days when I was in 3rd grade for not playing house with my crush , it was legitimately the worst thing ever . Every thing I love requires my eyes , it’s the last sense I’d give up willingly for a reason. Only thing that could have made this worse is if it was under water and with spiders
I had a visual migraine only one, while at school. There was a weird pink and yellow aura around everything i looked at, and it made me dizzy. It only lasted for maybe half a minute, but the teacher called my parents, and my parents took me inmediatly to the ophthalmologist... who then proceeded to get mad at me for "wasting his time" and tell my parents i was watching too much History Channel when i told him i saw "something like an aura surrounding people and objects". Just now, 15 years later, i discover what it was that happened to me, and from a youtube video about horror movies. 🙃
3:30 due to mystery blood pressure issues, I have literally had a day were I woke up and was unable to remain upright without my vision going completely black in 3-5 secs for no apparent reason, it was terrifying.
Mark Ruffalo isn't the John with the prostitute, tho I can see why you thought so. I had to rewatch the scene and the aftermath, and luckily there is a point in the elevator where we can see his face in the window and it's not Mark (the voice us also wrong). This makes sense, bcz a) how could Mark sneak away in the night and get back without his wife noticing, and b) the John gets upset with her for having to keep her sunglasses on and is skeptical about a doctor's orders. Mark was the doctor who gave those orders. Hope that helps
Another great video! You're description of getting a migraine, and fear of blindness hits home. I still remember my 1st one, in 9th grade English class. Thought I was going blind, till my vision recovered and then the PAIN hit!
I have something similar to you Roanoke. It's far more rare for me, but I get blindspots that are watery and won't focus. Usually need to sleep or drink a lot of water or ride it out.
Field trip to Michigan! In the Air Force, I went blind to cataracts over a period of 3 weeks. My ophthalmologist had to perform an intraocular replacement surgery and wrote a medical paper about it. Not sure why it happened. However, one of the possibilities is radiation exposure but there was no other radiation injuries. So, nobody knows what happened. Fun.
A blindness epidemic was something that happened in the book The Day of the Triffids too. I haven't watched any film adaptations but that might be an interesting one to cover.
I used to have eye migrane and that shit is really scary. Becoming almost blind just like that and having to wait for it to pass. I was always scared it would happen as I was driving or something. Weird thing is it stopped after I had LASIK surgery. Don't really know what it was all about.
Something similar happens when my worst dizziness episodes happen, sure my vision doesn't go dark but it fuzzs out so much at its worst that it might as well be temporary blindness. It doesn't last long but it's no picnic obviously.
I’m not even finished with the video yet but all the memes are killing me 😂 I look up when he rants and see them and it’s a great distraction from work
As a diabetic I've lost all feeling in both legs and my eyesight in my right eye entirely. It is as Roanoke said terrifying to lose one's eye sight. But the neuropathy is much much more dangerous. I can't feel when I break bones, rip skin, or pull my nails off my toes. Sounds alright? No, it's the most god awful thing. I've lost tracked of the scars on my legs. Not to mention I've unintentionally pulled both big toe nails off not ripped or cut but Pulled Them Out Long Ways. I once ripped and pulled the tip of my toe off trying to cut a stray toenail. Oh and I've broken a big toe by accidentally doing point ballet one morning without realizing it. Yeah, losing my vision was terrifying but not knowing when to hold back or when I'm doing something dangerously wrong is equally horror inducing.
I've developed vision problems the past couple years due to poor health. Losing my vision is arguably one of my worst fears imaginable. Luckily I can still see but it was touch and go for awhile there. This movie would be terrifying if it happened in real life lol
I get migraines every few weeks, and the process you describe is exactly what I feel. Apparently that is called "aura", vision gets blurred together into colors and the point that I focus on looks like a big blind spot with light radiating across my field of vision. It is such a strange experience and heralds a world of hurt incoming.
not sure why i didn't get into your video's more but man been binging your video's for the past day or two. great stuff. i really enjoy the technical discussions with the benefit of the biologic studies you've taken in school and it makes for excellent after points after the movie reviews. great stuff. thanks.
Hearing you explain your migraine symptoms legit made me nauseous as I also suffer from them. Not often but when they happen it hits me so hard that I become bed ridden, partially blind and extremely nauseous. It’s an absolute nightmare and one of my greatest fear. I genuinely believe it’s as close to torture as I have ever gotten. Typically I puke myself to sleep due to exhaustion and shock from the severe pain. Yeah.. Not pleasant at all.
This sounds somewhat similar to what happened to Albert Blythe from the 101st airborne 506th (Easy Company) He seems to experience temporary blindness due to battle fatigue. I believe they referred to it as hysterical blindness. After Major Winters (then Captain) said some reassuring words to him and he regained his sight.
For once a story I only read as a book. This was pretty freaky but a very recommendable book. Looking forward to your analysis 👍 Edit: I feel after watching this the movie missed a few of the crucial points of this book. The book is Blindness by José Saramago, if anyone wanted to know it. For once the book plays with the immense fear of going blind and how it would be without guidance to actually become blind surprisingly, it plays with the fragile point of what we would call being human and a modern social human and it palys with the thought of what would happen if you had no possibility to contact your loved once in an apocalypse. It also plays with the way humans can emotionally connect when we let loose of what we see. It is a hard but very interesting read. And the book seemingly makes a bit more sense than the movie - but I guess that is the illness of adaptation. And this adaptation wanted to be a piece of art... I have to mention the toilet thing because it was one point that still doesn't let me loose (I read the book easily ten years ago). At the moment of the scene in the movie, most water works were already abandoned same was with electricity plants. People wanted to use the toilets but 1) they were very far away from the group rooms and b) when the toilets were full of shit and dirty, people started to use the hallways, the smell was unbearable (clearly). This all ended in them getting ill, also through drinking the leftover dirty water. So people also started to get diarrhea. Nobody was able to wash themselves without water too. Like...that was the worst-case scenario in every way. And to the doctor: In the book the doctor was a lot older too, like in his mid-60s I believe? So he was the oldest and wisest in the group and through his job and status people voted him to be their voice.
As a fellow sufferer of migrains, i feel your pain. They can be atrocious. I used to power through them all the time but it was an absolute hellscape. I used to keep teaching with migraines and it was bad. Nowadays i end up closing all the blinds and hiding in the dark and laying in the bottom of the shower if i dont have to do things.
