LOL LOL LOL

Follow this link. Really. (*)

This is absolutely fucking brilliant.

(*) It goes to twitter, with a link to the funniest video I have seen in a long while.

Water from the sky

The Puget Sounds area (at the very least) is cut off from the rest of the US, oops.

I5 is closed because of flooding. Liquid water from sky.

All the passes are closed because of Lots of Snow until at least Sunday. Frozen water from sky.

What if

What if we can't go back to normal, ever?

What then?

The mouth-breather-anti-vaxxer solution, which it's sounds like the US Supreme Court agrees with, is just let it all hang loose, some will live, some will die, some will be disabled, but freedumb.

I don't like that solution.

I also don't relish the idea of masks forevermore etc, but in the end, it still seems like it's the path that leads to the least loss of human life, human potential.

Cases going up. There is some questions as to whether Omicron will boost immunity, most of the data I've seen says 'not likely'. We also don't know if it will trigger long covid.

So much that we don't know.

And what next? A new variant with higher lethality, as transmissible as Omicron? Despite the claims of right wingers, viruses are not "primed to evolve to be less lethal."

As I toss these things around my brain, usually in the middle of the night, the thought of "what if this is a species ending event?" always hits me. Because. It could be. It probably won't be, but it could. And it could also be that it's the kind of event that changes the course of humanity.

I mean, we now have proof that a high percentage of our fellow people are both profoundly dumb and, for all intents are purposes, sociopaths.