Sitting here thinking about how articles in 2040 will be talking about how it’s actually good for humans to no longer have a sense of smell or taste thanks to COVID.
Taste and smell are useless in when working, and getting rid of them makes it so your eyesight, hearing, and touch get more sensitive! We're basically creating epic Captain America supersoldiers for doing soul-sucking menial labor for minimum wage!
"Can you believe how much money we used to waste on making things taste and smell 'good'? We would have whole departments creating perfume, scents, and figuring out how to add them to products. We used to pay people known as 'chefs' to create food to eat that pleased those senses in addition to just providing nourishment.
Thanks to Covid we've been able to streamline our business models to eliminate those unfair skilled jobs and create more jobs on the food factory floor."
Personally I'm waiting until there's multiple grades of Soylent available. Soylent Blue Label will have up to 23% human-based protein! Red Label will have some insect protein in it, but it will be mostly recycled paper pulp.
We're going to get deathwaves. When millennials start getting into their 50s, we're going to get articles about them dying off in higher numbers than boomers or genx. Lots of wondering why and maybe the pandemic had something to do with it but that was a long time ago and maybe it's their own fault for not being healthy. There's going to be a lot of sudden heart failure and strokes.
Dismissing concerns about losing our oldest sensory system and the one that's most deeply wired into our brains is upsetting to me more than just about any other facet of this "omicron is more mild" phenomenon.
Sitting here thinking about how articles in 2040 will be talking about how it’s actually good for humans to no longer have a sense of smell or taste thanks to COVID.
Taste and smell are useless in when working, and getting rid of them makes it so your eyesight, hearing, and touch get more sensitive! We're basically creating epic Captain America supersoldiers for doing soul-sucking menial labor for minimum wage!
"Can you believe how much money we used to waste on making things taste and smell 'good'? We would have whole departments creating perfume, scents, and figuring out how to add them to products. We used to pay people known as 'chefs' to create food to eat that pleased those senses in addition to just providing nourishment.
Thanks to Covid we've been able to streamline our business models to eliminate those unfair skilled jobs and create more jobs on the food factory floor."
Of course it's good, it will massively help us when when we have to consume our daily rations of Tesla™ Augmented Nutrition-Paste®.
Personally I'm waiting until there's multiple grades of Soylent available. Soylent Blue Label will have up to 23% human-based protein! Red Label will have some insect protein in it, but it will be mostly recycled paper pulp.
We're going to get deathwaves. When millennials start getting into their 50s, we're going to get articles about them dying off in higher numbers than boomers or genx. Lots of wondering why and maybe the pandemic had something to do with it but that was a long time ago and maybe it's their own fault for not being healthy. There's going to be a lot of sudden heart failure and strokes.
Put the lathe away please
Why do you think most people in hard sci-fi just eat featureless protein cubes? :covid-cool:
"Winning the War on Taste and Smell - the Biggest Barriers to a Bug-Based Diet"
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Dismissing concerns about losing our oldest sensory system and the one that's most deeply wired into our brains is upsetting to me more than just about any other facet of this "omicron is more mild" phenomenon.