2026-10-14 16:52 UTC
If a person spreads a disease with intent, please add their name to the illness.
We have Kennedy Measles killing people across the country.
It's not hard to add a name. Doctors who discover diseases often get that glory.
Now it can belong to policy makers too.
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-10-14 16:56
@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world Fuck yeah! Back when we were still naming variants of Covid after the countries where they first appeared, and racists were being racist about it, the British people were calling the British variant (now named alpha) the "Boris virus." His disastrous mismanagement did indeed contribute to its emergence in Kent. I took a page out of their book and started naming strains "The Bolsonaro Virus" (gamma) and "The Modi Virus" (delta).