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I have domestic competition in the meme coining game. My wife called this winter “the great sickening”. Even without coronavirus this feels like the sickest season in a very long time. As long as I can remember in fact.
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Some of the stress is second-order stress from infectious disease not being part of a societal narrative. India is a much sicker place in general, but infectious disease, at every level from seasonal cold/flu to outbreaks of dengue to exotics like chikungunya are normalized
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I recall during the 1994 pneumonic plague in India, the atmosphere was more like dealing with a hurricane than a sense of zombie apocalypse that seems to take over the US during outbreaks of things
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Heh, methinks they retired Pestilence too early. Who would be the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse today? I think only pestilence would keep his job. I'd say: Pestilence, "Healthcare" (fate worse than death under modern terminal care perhaps?), Climate, and Technodystopia.
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