What doesn't kill you makes you wish you were dead anyway: Threats to our very existence can be found almost daily among media sources, often because they want us to continue reading as the ads and commercials roll by. But sometimes substantial dangers do pop up, and they should be covered as a precautionary note.
Such may be the case with a couple of body invaders making disturbing strides around the planet. The fungus Aspergillus, for one, can do to us what it excels at with animals and insects -- taking up residence inside a body and literally consuming one from the inside to the outside. On simple terms, we are the main cuisine, the carte du jour at Restaurant de Fungus, and we pay the bill, sometimes with our lives.
Blaming climate change -- don't they always? -- scientists predict that lethal forms of Aspergillus will hijack our bodies, an easy task because its spores are airborne, ready at all times to jump in any time somebody takes in a breath of fresh air, or any kind of air. Then it's off to the lungs and progressive and fast domination of lung tissue which will ultimately kill off the human or animal. Yes, anti-fungal medications exist, but some are as lethal as the fungus itself, and while one chemical preparation may successfully treat fungal infections, it might also wreak havoc on the patient's kidneys and cause death.
I'm reminded of microscopic photos I've seen showing a fungus eating a fly from inside-out, consumption so complete that traces left behind resemble nothing.
However, if being eaten by an unsympathetic fungus which couldn't care less about your desires doesn't appeal to you, how about. . .
Ingesting screwworms? Wouldn't you know, just the mere larva of a particular fly can enter animal or human bodies through the smallest of wounds and as it grows will -- didn't you just read this? -- eat you from outside to inside to outside, leaving one pretty much devoid of useful internal organ function. Death is but a side-effect. There was a time when screwworms were handled successfully through sterilization and other means, but that was years ago and authorities lost their grip -- and cattle smugglers began importing cattle infested and doomed with screwworms with no routine examinations whatsoever. The U.S. beef industry braces for an invasion as the fly in question appears ever closer to North America, and as heroic efforts are currently underway to combat this deadly threat.
On the bright side, instead of calling your enemies motherf***ers to their faces now, you can just tell them they're screwworms, causing them great puzzlement as you quickly escape the punishment you otherwise might anticipate.
Swing-gularity: Men want to become women, women want to become men, few people want to make babies and not even your cat knows what you are anymore. I realize that the "singularity" is supposed to indicate the emergence of human and machine, but maybe the term also signifies the appearance of a person lacking any sexual or gender characteristics whatsoever. Not much of a species multiplier. Maybe unseen forces have a plan.
No forced Covid shots: RFK, Jr. made the right decision re excusing pregnant women and children from the so-called immunization. When one sees evidence of rubber band-like substances in arteries and nobody quite knows what or why, it might be time to blame the "vaccine."
King Charles visits America's 51rst state! Oh Canada, oh, oh Canada. . .What has he done for you? Charles currently has other problems, but I'm betting his cancer would improve with stress levels lowered if you just join us here in the states so he won't need to worry about Canada anymore. If you really, really care about your King's health you'll consider becoming our newest state, and then Charles can concentrate on getting better.
Nothing much more today. Oh, um, if the four or so criminal element personnel who wielded Biden's Auto-pen in the White House could sign me a pardon for all of my future crimes before I'm tried and convicted, that would be great. Spell my name right, okay?
