for bonus check out this awful URL from the nypost about it:
Avian flu is gonna be wild. It’s gonna be like The Stand where there’s just gonna be bodies in the streets because they couldn’t get time off work because the CDC doesn’t wanna be too “authoritarian.”
If it’s not this strain of bird flu, there’ll be another respiratory virus in the near future. The entire mechanism for doing something about a pandemic has pretty much been dismantled.
The lesson libs learned from the last pandemic is absolutely going to be not trying to impose any restrictions on people so they don’t lose the support of DeusVaultPatriot88
Whichever candidate promises that I get to hunt down antivaxxers with a dart gun gets my vote.
Capital forcing people to work through a pandemic with a high mortality rate is really gonna kneecap their ability to steal money from labor, as I imagine it’s much harder to do when all the workers are dying
Unrelated: it’s a shame Stephen King turned into such a lib. But The Stand - along with most of his early work i.e. when he was writing high as a kite - is actually very good.
I haven’t re-read any of his older stuff since I was radicalized. Kinda worry it won’t hold up. But if I’m ever in Maine, I’m gonna get arrested throwing copies of The Jakarta Method and Blackshirts and Reds over his fence.
read The Running Man, it’s incredible
stephen king was fucked up on shitty beer and coke one night in 1980 and was like hey what if reality tv and late capitalism and socioeconomic decay and social stratification and society of the spectacle and nazi youth gangs and killing off the poor via environmental collapse and return of old epidemic diseases and slow grinding deterioration of material conditions and flying commercial jets into skyscrapers
Scratch a liberal and all that. This is clearly a direct response to leftist orgs making sure people are masking at protests.
What’s more crazy about this is mask wearing on the subway is actually pretty common. A solid 10% of people still wear masks on the trains every day. It’s not weird, and literally nobody in New York thinks “omg this person next to me is a criminal with a mask.” Dems just gotta Dem I guess.
masking: banned
lockdowns: non existent and would get very vocal pushback now
number of anti vaxxers: at an all time high
hell ya the next pandemic is going to fucking kill us
Literally not a normal country jesus fucking christ.
