sport of sacred spherical cowsExpect to see more Usians masking in 2025.
As Democratic fanbase will no longer be able to justify ignoring risk out of devotion to party.
Spread requires inattention.
You turn up in an E/R with a fever. It looks like a nasty influenza (all respiratory immune responses look like nasty influenza). Influenza A test comes back positive.
Battery of questions. Have you been around any dead animals? Have you been to a farm recently? Have you had any raw foods recently?
Oh, you have? Okay, let's run some more tests.
Absent any such flags, they ain't gonna genetically sequence. It'll just be the flu. As it spreads, the news will just report on severe flu. Because H5N1 won't be getting tested for.
Ridicule is not what you wrote above. You wrote that inter-initialism transmission would lead to transmission to humans. That's textbook dehumanization.
Dark humor is appropriate and more than justified. Demonizing a faction of Usians for a mess that both Usian parties conspired to create is falling for the #KayfabePanto.
When you yell to the stage "Look behind you!" you're doing what the script called for.
It comes down to belief systems.
This includes belief in a social contract that promises those of #perquisitive #classposture that if they make the right choices, they get to have all the choices (cue "All the Things" meme). That social contract was violated by non-pharmaceutical interventions in 2020. The trauma of that violation of autohagiographic contract has yet to be addressed.
This includes belief in the electoralism that is Usian #KayfabePanto, whereby ballot-holders are activated to cheer for the audience friend, the face, and jeer the baddie, the heel. The audience friend, even when playing at being emperor, naked on stage, is only ever to be group-chanted into right action, never criticized openly, for fear of the bad people.
This likewise includes belief in Better-Living-Through-Chemistry™ aglithacultural scientism. This being just the latest iteration on the scientism that Rachel Carson wrote a whole polemic against; yet that we keep retracing each generation.
Is not that the culture wars are a distraction, but rather that the culture wars are a genre convention, essential to a narrative form and—at once ironically and sincerely—to any narrative form defined in opposition to same.
So long as white moderates will stunt on inequities—in the service of fight craft against iniquities—justice will find no space in the play-bill.
Such yellow reporting crowding the thing, the play, with sponsors for an ever stage right dance—of the quiet part and the out loud—#classposture choreography of material tensions, these bearing heaviest upon groundlings, that penny-to-stand motley being only of stock concern to those assured comfort of seat for the quadrennial festival.
Prediction:
Bird flu will really take off at some point after January 21, 2025.
Democratic voters, in the U.S., will blame the administration in place at the time it becomes an undeniable problem, not the administration that did everything it could to ensure it would inevitably do so.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.Reading about petition from national security advisors...
Okay, sure.
Setting my incredulity about their flattery of addressee aside...
Four years from now, when a project named after a year has been renamed after another year, then what?
We're running out of Band-aids.
The ouchies only get worse after this.
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112721131803913431
But also:
Listening to a video essay regarding #Ghibli films, wherein they discuss the difference between Three Act Structure and Kishōtenketsu:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Qf-oLlAPDsc
Sitting with the fact that Usian elections are, indeed Usian #KayfabePanto is, all about that Three Act Structure:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112192371410842408
And how Western narrative practices constrain our ability to imagine differently:
Mythopoeia of labor, like any corpus of belief, however dead, has a hold that is beyond mere recognition.
That's how the kayfabe of the #KayfabePanto works. Everyone in a professional wrestling audience knows the events are scripted. They recognize that. Everyone in a professional wrestling audience *also* "knows" that there is a heroic battle afoot and good will win out over evil because their avatar champion of good is the better wrestler.
Just read someone arguing that 45 fucked up the #CDC.
As if Vibe'n hasn't had well over three years to do anything about it.
Oh, right, he's too busy going about maskless while positive with an infectious disease.
But yeah, their argument is that once things are broken, it takes forever and then some to fix them.
Well, yeah, if the folk you're vesting faith in to fix them have no intention of doing so, that's kinda how it works.
#KayfabePanto credulity at toxic levels.