[FRIAM] Musk’s America Party – Some Thoughts from Afar

[steve smith]

> that’s called bird flu.  Just a few mutations away.

Did anyone (else) read "White Plague" 
<https://theliteraryomnivore.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/review-the-white-plague/> 
by Frank Herbert (yes that one)?  Not a good time to be pissing off (out 
of work?) molecular biologists... especially with CRISPR having matured 
out of Science Fiction?

BTW, my daughter (Molecular Biologist) is looking for a new gig after 
RFKjr & friends halted all the grants she was on at OHSU as well as many 
adjacents.

Flaviviruses (Zika, W. Nile, Dingue) are primarily S***hole country 
problems (why she made a career of them), or at least they were when the 
first world still had good health care, and before climate change 
started moving mosquito populations further north, and into longer and 
longer seasons.

FWIW, she's more likely to tweak chickens into tiny TRexes or give 
humans back our prehensile tails than follow O'Niell's lead:

    /InThe White Plague, John Roe O’Neill’s world is shattered when an
    IRA bomb kills his wife and children on a visit to Ireland. Driven
    mad by their deaths, O’Neill, a brilliant molecular scientist,
    unleashes a plague upon the world that wipes out most of the women
    on the face of the Earth./


>> As a morbid, cynical, and (at least semi) psychopathic, */_old_/* 
>> guy: where is Covid when we need it?
>>
>> davew
>>
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