I maintain if Covid made the same kind of blisters as something like cowpox (which may also become a pandemic at some point) or had any other kind of physical, outward appearance-changing effects, we would have had hundreds of millions of people throwing themselves at the CDC begging for masks and vaccinations.
Our species doesn’t deal with “invisible” threats very well. We have vastly overestimated our species’ ability to rationalize past monkey-senses and instincts.
I don’t know… At this point I think you’d have the blister deniers and then they’d try to treat it with cornstarch and toenail clippings. And some aspiring group of power hungry assholes would turn the blister mongers against the pure skinned to create a divide they could monetize.
blister deniers and then they’d try to treat it with cornstarch and toenail clippings.
See, the thing is these fuckwits have been around since the dawn of time. I had them in my own family. Nature tended to take care of them over long stretches of time.
The reason we’re so fucked is that these outliers and fringe kooks have megaphones, and there is huge money in promoting bullshit schlock on people who are poorly educated and don’t trust science because they fill their brains with celebrity makeover reveals and purse accessory trends and WWE wrestler feuds.
Even worse, the controversy it creates just publishing articles about the kooks makes halfway intelligent people outraged, which increases engagement, which boosts the kook ideas even higher.
This is capitalism’s form when it kills us all. Not with nuclear weapons or lasers from the sky, but with a long, slow, festering plague that leaves everyone broke and sick except for the fraction of a fraction of people who end up with ALL the money and live forever.
Well, COVID has already shown us what really happens when a greater force comes and threatens humanity…
Also climate collapse
but consider that diseases do not have a physical form that we are able to shoot at
I maintain if Covid made the same kind of blisters as something like cowpox (which may also become a pandemic at some point) or had any other kind of physical, outward appearance-changing effects, we would have had hundreds of millions of people throwing themselves at the CDC begging for masks and vaccinations.
Our species doesn’t deal with “invisible” threats very well. We have vastly overestimated our species’ ability to rationalize past monkey-senses and instincts.
I don’t know… At this point I think you’d have the blister deniers and then they’d try to treat it with cornstarch and toenail clippings. And some aspiring group of power hungry assholes would turn the blister mongers against the pure skinned to create a divide they could monetize.
Scary to think we might be on the best timeline.
See, the thing is these fuckwits have been around since the dawn of time. I had them in my own family. Nature tended to take care of them over long stretches of time.
The reason we’re so fucked is that these outliers and fringe kooks have megaphones, and there is huge money in promoting bullshit schlock on people who are poorly educated and don’t trust science because they fill their brains with celebrity makeover reveals and purse accessory trends and WWE wrestler feuds.
Even worse, the controversy it creates just publishing articles about the kooks makes halfway intelligent people outraged, which increases engagement, which boosts the kook ideas even higher.
This is capitalism’s form when it kills us all. Not with nuclear weapons or lasers from the sky, but with a long, slow, festering plague that leaves everyone broke and sick except for the fraction of a fraction of people who end up with ALL the money and live forever.