First identified as a driving force behind a major surge in cases across China last month, the NB.1.8.1 variant has been reported in international travelers screened at airports in Washington, Virginia, New York and California. In California, scientists at the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory confirmed the state’s first known infection on April 17, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Y’know, I used to think that we’d blow ourselves up or mostly perish in the coming climate disasters… but at this point I believe we’ll be forced to die at the hands of a rampaging preventable disease.
And not just from COVID, either! The lunatic death-cultists are fucking with everything from pollution controls to food safety inspections to water treatment. Hope you like rivers catching on fire and cholera!
Welcome to the jungle. And I don’t mean “fun and games;” I mean Upton goddamn Sinclair.
Prions
It’s the Four Horsemen. People and nations can handle one, but if they ride together it’s going down.