• D3FNC [any]
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      2 years ago

      Gonna copy my comment from another thread because I really should be getting back to work:

      Nah this is in no way suspicious, and totally unrelated to all these articles that started to appear out of nowhere today accusing Russia of having bioweapons labs working with monkeypox.

      Fuck it, I’m panicking. It’s time to embrace the internal screaming of complete despair that I’ve been trying to ignore since March 2020.

      We have no public health here. If they’re saying they detected a dozen cases in the United States, I guarantee we already have thousands. The same thing is happening with covid right now. STILL. WE ARE STILL DEALING UNSUCCESSFULLY WITH THE PRIOR FUCKING PANDEMIC.

      Here I am stuck between anti science radicals that don’t believe in germ theory, and the supposed experts setting policy in our own government, telling us this is overblown and we shouldn’t worry about it - IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE. This is the worst, and sickest form of deja vu I have ever experienced. WE JUST DID THIS. OH MY GOD

    • Snackuleata [any]
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      2 years ago

      It has precedent though. The first vaccine was infecting someone deliberately with cowpox to build a slight immunity and make smallpox less fatal. Smallpox also doesn't mutate much which is why it was eradicated. Of course I'm still going to treat it like a pandemic but it's not entirely unfounded.