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I’m going with Thursday 1.
But in my mind I’m gone to Sunday.
However,
I just heard of this new tick born disease that makes one allergic to eating meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome
‘A typical allergic reaction to alpha-gal has a delayed onset, occurring 3–8 hours after consuming mammalian meat products. However, there have been instances of the onset of symptoms occurring within 2 hours.[8] After the delayed onset, the allergic response is like most food allergies, and especially an IgE-mediated allergy, including severe whole-body itching, hives, angioedema, gastrointestinal upset, and possible anaphylaxis.
Hmm.
Suspicious thoughts?
Moi?
I think using science to block out the Sun and for global multi-vaccination mandates is perfectly fine and is no indication of anything the least bit sinister.
Neither is a UN global mass migration plan.
And as a carbon based life form, I think de-carbonization is good.
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“Beneficial Bloodsucking” from Messers Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, in the august pages of Bioethics.
“The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat. It is presently feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, then promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory.”
So, we have terminally stupid morons promoting a disease to stop people eating meat based on their ideological dogma. If you don’t do as we say, we will find ways to make you. And these are the type of reprehensible zealots that get published in Bioethics. WTF is ethical about any of this????
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