re: #26 Dopamine Fish

The scientific term, of course, means, “Oh FUCK we don’t know what this is.”

And there was a whole succession of novel pathogens that were more or less alarming before covid. Each one was legitimately an exercise of “we better keep a close eye on this until were sure it’s not a public health problem”, despite the fact that the mainstream reporting usually spun this as a bunch of doomers getting agitated by false alarms.