It really does feel that way. Even if the rate of negative effects is vastly lower than thalidomide, it's been given to SO many more people! For a disease that was only ever dangerous people already on the brink of death anyway...
If we're still around in ten years, we'll be reading books about this, trying to understand it.
I don't think it takes a Nostradamus to see that the adolescents and teenagers of today are going to be the angry and disenfranchised Baby Bust childless of a decade or two from now. And that's the mildest of potential outcomes for them...
The cynical voice that resides in the back of my head making atavistic calculations says: if even half the horrible things they're saying about the foxes turn out to be true, then my unmodified organic children are going to have a much easier-than-anticipated time finding Nice Orthodox Spouses in 10-20 years. Particularly as the church prohibits most forms of assisted reproduction (no surrogates, no donor gametes, no IVF). Nothing like sweeping the competition off the field...
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Date: 2021-11-09 07:53 pm (UTC)If we're still around in ten years, we'll be reading books about this, trying to understand it.
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Date: 2021-11-10 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-10 08:52 pm (UTC)