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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

[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.