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I was on my way to the next hospital I'll be working at for the next three months. I had heard about a bad outbreak of mad cow disease in Thorp, WI which was right on my way and the situation was far worse than I expected.
The prion causing the disease had clearly mootated and given the cows some strange powers.
The first thing I noticed was that the cows had picked up a chromatophore gene from cephalopods. They had started to use this ability to camouflage themselves in many locations. I stayed in my car for many of hidden camera photos, so I apologize for the quality of some.
Some weren't very adept at fast changes, and I captured this one after it had obviously been sneaking around in a quilt shop. I hope the owner is ok, but I found something that I will show later indicating that I don't think they are.
One decided to try to pretend to be a vegetable, thinking most people wouldn't fear that as much as a bovid.
One had gone the inorganic route and had taken the place of a street sign at a T-intersection. I think this might have been a ploy to get people to normalize bovid morphology in the city.
What became evident to me was that some were clearly trying to bait people. I couldn't quite determine what the end goal was initially.
I came across some evidence showing that this has become an international problem and not just limited to this small town. Perhaps ground zero was in Poland.
The next few images are rather horrifying, because I realized that this had become the Invasion of the Body MOOchers. The first I found was the replacement of a local dentist. Don't let that smile deceive you. I bet it had consumed the dentist and took over their practice.
Next I found that many city services had been taken over, almost like a version of Antelope, OR being taken over by the Rashneesh cult and being renamed Rashneeshpuram in the 1980s. The first seemed benign, but perhaps this was a ploy to get waterfowl infected as well.
It continued to get darker as I found their minister of propaganda.
The school principal...
The fire chief...
And the police chief had all been replaced.
The worst though was that I found that they were putting on a patina of patriotism and forming an army. God help us.
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