re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

O do I hate these guys and how they love to sound “science-like” in a way that suggests you’re an asshole if you don’t believe that the human body and spirit are miraculous enough to make inhaling quartz powder no big deal. It’s always this fake optimism—“we’ll come out strong is there’s more radioactive cesium is the water…or can’t you hack it.”

Your immune system can’t fucking “adapt” to tar or ash like it can pollen or dander, because tar and ash are only superficially one substance: they’re a fucking smoothie of organic molecules looking to react with other organic molecules on the finest level (which is fucking bad)—smaller than the kind of assemblies immune systems target—but also because they’re literally just particle matter that obstruct alveoli and are way too big to just be defeated.

Hence emphysema in all its fucking forms.