I am looking at Quoted Tweets of “What a great thread! Yeah, yeah” and imagine a group of villagers with pitchforks and torches. Not that anybody can make sense of this info for it might make sense to the narrowest group of specialists in this subject. /1
New variant news thrown at villagers produces an effect of fear. Not that anybody ever lost sleep at new viral variants of anything ever before but you word it right and believers in science can’t sleep now. “They is al’ ‘cited” /2
Then comes Lord Farquaad to explain things to you and tell you all about many vaccines you can be getting for every strain of any virus that ever comes your way. The villagers “get ‘cited even mo’. They is peein’ theirs pants they is so ‘cited to get dem shots ‘n al’” /3
Under normal circumstances of sanity rule much knowledge brings much sorrow. Binary understanding of the world “you will get sick or you won’t”, “ you will recover or you won’t”, “you will live or you won’t” as a basic way to cope with your reality governed your life. /4
You derived your knowledge from the immediate world around you where upon encounter with disease, few, many, certain few, or certain many got sick/maimed/recovered/died. /5
New variant of the virus under the new Religion of Science becomes an all powerful and uniformity pervasive Evil. There is no gradient. You have no other way but to shake in your boots in a bunker with two or more masks on. /6
Any new vaccine, to be sure, by default is defunct from any future new variants of hundreds of viruses with sickness potential. What used to be solved with “and deliver us from evil” became an existential terror that will never end. /7
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