Feels like covid in late 2019/early 2020. I’m half expecting to read some Reddit post from some guy in a major city saying that he has some weird cold and his doctor told him not to go outside but he’s unable to test so he’s unsure what it is. Of course I said the same thing about bird flu last year and that has yet to pop off. The difference of course being that hantavirus has confirmed human-to-human transmission, bird flu never did.
Thoughts? Are you preparing for covid 2? Think it’ll fizzle out?
mice in the US high desert have hanta. or so i was told. it made us all leery of seeing mouse turds. before that i was pretty brazen about moving around into old storage spaces. this was like “middle of nowhere, turn left” type shit.
so like 20 minutes of waiting for someone to get the one “working” car and then 30 minutes of crazy haul ass to get to some underfunded rural clinic where maybe somebody has gotten enough cell service to call ahead to have an ambo to take you the next 40 minutes to an underfunded rural hospital.
so we were all nuts in some way, but everybody had their “fuck that” boundary. mine was heights and messing with exposed electrical wiring. still is. i saw this guy throw sparks all over a breaker box he had installed by absent-mindedly gesturing at it too closely with a screw driver. he just laughed it off like the fucking joker. but he wouldn’t go near any animal, even obviously domesticated and chill ones.
i don’t live anywhere near where people casually travel to, so i’m gonna hold off on getting the heebie-jeebies. i’m still prepping for fuel shocks, tbh. maybe if the cost of fuel gets too high, people will stop spreading everything around all the damn time.
any desert can be the high desert