Thread by @17cShyteposter

"Fear, finger-pointing, and militaristic action against the virus are unproductive. We may be better off adjusting to a new normal of periodic outbreaks."

The Cathedral appears to be mutating into something overtly hostile to continued human existence.

wired.com/story/opinion-…

The Spanish flu killed 50-100 million people at a time when the global population was about 1.8 billion.

In today's terms, that would be 200-400 million deaths.

...why do outlets like Buzzfeed and Wired keep insisting there's nothing we can do about this?

It's strange that the possibility of the planet getting a couple of degrees warmer is justification for upending entire economies and societies, but the possibility of regular outbreaks of mega-death plagues is apparently "part and parcel of living in a global world"

It's almost like the Cathedral knows it can use climate change to gain power, as in the Green New Deal

But that the measures needed to fight lethal diseases might strip it of power

Like, for instance, forcing it to admit that some behaviors are more likely to cause pandemics

Addressing danger of pandemics might also require harder borders, less global movement/integration of different peoples, increased suspicion of foreigners, and occasional suspension of "human rights" to slow/stop spread of contagions

All of these run counter to ruling ideology.

"Don't panic yet, it probably won't be that bad" would be a reasonable message

Instead it's "Here's why we shouldn't try to fight lethal pandemics"

The fact such a weird message keeps coming from so many different media outlets makes me wonder what else it's carrying inside it.