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[malada]

For those of you who haven't read Steven King's "The Stand", Captain Trips was the nickname of the virus that nearly wiped out humanity. In the book, it was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab.

Nature can make it's own bioweapons without our help. Not vaccinating and not wearing masks can help spread it - like what's happening all across the country. It was mostly in the Red States but it's reached sleepy upstate New York now.

Thanks guys for not vaccinating and not masking. F*ck you very much.

The Delta variant is not Captain Trips... but the next variation might be.

-m

Comments

[dewline]

Hoping to avoid both of those things. I have to have a death someday, after all, but I don't want that kind of death.

[siliconshaman]

There is a Theoretical [so far] that was modelled in a CDC computer that comes pretty close. As infectious as the delta variant, causes violent psychosis like the labma variant, and it's asymptomatic but infectious during it's incubation period.

Lets not give nature to come up with that itself.

[moxie_man]

Sadly, this is a "practice" pandemic and we've failed at it miserably. I'm to the point of wishing it was something super highly contagious like Measles and as quick and deadly as Ebola. A lot would die, but Darwin would also quickly eliminate the "My Freedumb" crowd.

[kylinn]

Sadly, Darwin would eliminate a lot of others along the way, not just directly but as by-products of crashed civilization. Food delivery, power, clean water... bye-bye.