#superspreading

[destielmemenews]

Paris has had seasonal infestations every summer, but the trend has been steadily increasing each year. Over 1 in 10 households experienced bedbugs from 2017 to 2022.

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #world news #news #tw bugs #bugs tw #bedbugs #tw insects #paris #paris france #and right before the #2024 olympics #paris olympics #i was gonna link the bbc article but it largely downplays the panic about bedbugs and ends up just blaming it on poor people #calling them “superspreaders” #it felt very mean-spirited #the forbes article the first one listed here is very informative though and explaines the situation without #ya know #blaming poor people #like the cause here is literally tourism and travel #it's not linked to parisian homeless or lower income households #specifically #bedbugs could infest anywhere and are just being spread by travelers

[christianstepmoms]

I hauve covid

#this is what i get for working redneck superspreader events

[westerberg]

Love seeing all the people lusting after Eric Idle lately. You probably all used to think I was some kind of freak or something but watch out… you could be next….

#chucklefucking is a virus and brother I’m a superspreader….

[bonebabbles]

with the disclaimer that I don't know all the context since I haven't read it, how WAS he supposed to handle a contagious illness in a society that doesn't have any form of masks or sanitation? Temporarily quarantining contagiously sick cats away from healthy ones just seems like a completely different and much more reasonable thing than kicking out cats permanently for a disability because they would be a "burden".

@halogenwarrior

Ok, going with you having no context for this, he wasn't suggesting a 'temporary quarantine' for sick cats. There is already a quarantine, with only the medics approaching the sick. Following everyone having a Hearty Chuckle that Clear Sky 'cares about other people' now by saying we're "all in it together," Clear Sky shares his full plan;

He nonsensically believes that no sick prey is living in the burnt part of his woods and the fire "cleansed it", so all of the healthy cats will abandon the sick to die in their camps and come live on his territory and 'wait it out.'

His plan is that all the cats who become sick will die. It's not quarantine in the sense that they will 'help the sick but keep a distance', he is essentially suggesting a reverse leper colony where everyone who displays symptoms gets kicked out to fend for themselves.

And, in the past, illness was always part of his talking points for throwing cats out of his clan. It was why he tried to throw Frost out, where he would die alone. I went back to Thunder Rising to grab the passage,

This is after he shoves Thunder's face into it and tells him to lick it.

So, it's wholly inappropriate, imo, that Thunder essentially does a little eye roll and a cutesy sigh at this suggestion. "Ohh that's my dad and his ruthless streak." His dad has historically been a monster towards the sick and infirm when they "stop being useful" with this rhetoric. Burdens, disease, weakness. In this moment, he is proposing that they do to an unknown number of cats exactly what he commanded Thunder do to Frost.

Additionally, at this point in time, they don't know how the illness spreads. They're guessing that it's via contact with sick prey, and using leaves as rudimentary tissues/gloves. Clear Sky DOES know, though, these two things;

One Eye knows how it spreads and is not telling.

Many of his cats have been exposed.

He has no idea which cats have been exposed, or how many, or even how long it takes between infection and first symptoms. All they DO know is that symptoms are rapid onset and debilitating. By the time you know a cat is sick, they're covered in sores, have a bloated stomach, and are unable to hunt for themselves. The only thing that is for sure is that turning them out is a death sentence.

And yet he is confused at the idea that Thunder has an objection about leaving Morning Whisker, Wind Runner's kitten who isn't older than a month or two, alone to die.

The solution that the groups eventually come up with is that the clans will remain isolated from each other as to not spread illness, though it doesn't seem to work because infected prey still moves around freely.

Also note that the first time Clear Sky actually gives a damn about an infected person is when Jagged Peak's pregnant wife catches it (After Jagged Peak 'proves' he's useful now by leading a medicine-seeking patrol thanks to Gray Wing). Wind Runner's an "ex-rogue," a group Clear Sky has disdain for, and he doesn't think to have compassion about her baby.

So to answer your question directly, he was 'supposed' to handle it the way the Moor cats did and were, with some basic safety precautions. Not regress to trying to use the illness to get all the cats into a single Clan in his own territory where he could continue to throw "useless/dangerously ill/disabled" out into the wilderness "where the maggots will find them".

#tw medical gore #It's worse than I mentioned but I was trying to be brief about it #Because if I dove into every little thing that is SHOCKINGLY bad about Clear Sky I wouldn't be able to get through the book #I swear im trying to be charitable about the fact his first suggestion was just... #''Kill your sick friends and children and join a brand new camp in MY territory'' #''I totally won't assert myself as your leader and make you throw out your friends and family For The Greater Good this time'' #''I've been thinking it's a great idea to gather all of the cats in one spot as a contagious illness ravages the forest'' #''Don't worry we won't get sick because we'll leave all the weak people behind'' #You can think about this for more than 30 seconds and see it fall apart #So isn't it very very convenient that his ''i've been Thinking'' idea involves consolidating power under HIMSELF??? AGAIN????? #At *best* he is so stupid he is inventing a superspreader event #At minimum his plan involves killing a LOT of people via abandonment #And at worst it's actually just another ploy to gain power. But I have to rule that out even though it's the most interesting idea #Because it's Clear Sky Redemption Arc Time and the writers are dead set on not letting him be an interesting character

[clonerightsagenda]

Just found out I sat indoors for 2.5 hours one person away from someone who tested COVID positive. Save me KN95 mask save me...

#me: I normally zoom in but since it's on a weekend I SHOULD show up in person for this activism thing #me @ myself: so how's that going for you #I am running a major campus event this week I CANNOT get sick #but man am I going to be gloves and doublemasking so I don't accidentally cause a superspreader if I *am* shedding virus #but haven't tested positive by then

[hairtusk]

living in england sucks what the fuck do you mean i still have to go into work (I TEACH DISABLED CHILDREN & TEENGAERS) when i have fucking covid !!!

#you're not allowed to quarantine anymore so i'm just going to have to be a superspreader i want to cry

[cock-holliday]

Had an ad that began like “The pandemic may be over but—“ and I just started screaming

#it was literally an ad for getting the next booster #the pandemic got declared over while we were steadily maintaining like 1k deaths a day here #how is that over? #the amount of people I know fucked from long covid #let alone the fact people are STILL GETTING IT #and cons and shit have been superspreader events lately #hell world

[mutxnts]

happy november 5th yall

#ash rambles #so glad bc the guy at work who exposed me to it apparently was at a superspreader event last weekend and made me nervous

[arcxnumvitae]

I just realized that the muses I told myself would be the worse ones to be Corrupted

all end up in close proximity with it one way or other.

#:outofcash #the /only/ other one I went 'yeah that'd be bad news bears' if they got it was Aur #and that would indeed be /reallyyyyy/ bad for Seelie #thankfully though no superspreaders around him #*stares at Soon-hee above* #there's probably a few more of mine if I sat and thought about it I'd realize would also Not Be Good if they were corrupted

[sheocheese]

Some people are too comfortable saying the dumbest shit

#my art #comic #for a bit of extra context: I work in food production #food that is not heated up or frozen again before it gets into someones mouth #My workplace could be a potential superspreader-vector for stuff if...let's say... someone came to work sick and NOT WEARING A MASK

[whisky-soul]

Black & white cutie 🥰

#pedro pascal #the last of us #tlou press #I keep looking at all the pics of him hugging and being all up in people’s business #with his 102 degree fever #superspreader bb 😬😅 #oh P #I hope he’s feeling better today

[jugsjules]

I know tumblr is not the reading comprehension website but sometimes you see a post on your dash that annoys you so fucking much the best you can do is just make your complaints in a separate post instead of on a reblog so here we are.

For the love of all that is gay and holy I wish folks would, in their bids to push back against online purity culture and censorship, stop swinging all the way in the other direction and saying shit that implies fiction has absolutely no effect on the real world and that what you write is never a reflection of yourself.

Because these things are not generally true.

I am old enough to remember, in the days of ff dot net, when you could not read a gay slash fic without whoever the main female love interest was being characterized as a huge bitch and tossed in the trash. And fandoms reading this over and over started going “Hey! This is misogynistic! Can we stop???” Folks started pushing for aggressive positivity towards female characters, and for writers to reflect on why they thought they needed to demonize those characters in the first place.

When fans complain about the absence, the tokenization, or the misrepresentation of characters of color, fat characters, disabled characters, trans, bi, and ace characters, etc; within the works of a fandom, it’s because they are being negatively affected by those stories!

Writers SHOULD be critical of their writing because it DOES reflect their biases and their areas of ignorance! Readers SHOULD question what they read and be careful what they internalize!

So while it’s true that writing about murder doesn’t immediately indicate an author thinks murder is okay, or is a murderer, it’s also true that stories DO have power. It’s why we love them so much in the first place!! And that power is nuanced!!!! We do stories a disservice by ignoring that nuance. And we do damage when we ignore it while supposedly teaching younger folks about censorship.

When confronting extremist thinking, it is more important than ever that we be mindful of our words and demonstrate to young writers the difference between constructive criticism (from yourself or others) and censorship. The relationship between art and life IS real and it CAN be negative, and is COMPLEX. Swinging all the way in the other direction and implying, either accidentally or purposefully, that someone doesn’t ever need to reflect on the things they write and why, is NOT the answer.

Begging (probably in vain) for supporters of fanfiction to stop teaching young readers and writers to turn off their brains just in the opposite direction of the online pearl-clutching crew. Please. orz

#jules journals #y’all do stories dirty when you act like this #some of y’all are writers in grave need of an editor #ideas can be pervasive and stories are the original superspreader of ideas #be fucking RESPONSIBLE with them

[meltorights]

want to know who the Gay Consultant is on bravern

#tep.txt #engineering these guys to be i think i hauve covid superspreaders

[zot3-flopped]

Alarryclown is still sore about Holivia. Appalled that Harry was driving a car without a mask even though everyone with him was in his bubble and masks were never mandatory in cars. Olivia still hurts her even now.

Louis rarely wore a mask in the pandemic because if your lungs are compromised masks make you feel stifled and ill. All through summer 2021 he was out there partying in Euros bars mask free. I remember we commented on it here at the time. Superspreader behavior, him and Niall. Harry only stopped wearing a mask in late 2022.

Yes, I remember that. Niall went to a party with over 20 people in June 2020! See these tags.

#louis tomlinson superspreader #niall horan superspreader