My understanding is that it was the people moving all over the place to get away from it who helped spread the Plague. With incubation periods unknown and, in the case of coronavirus, many people being asymptomatic and/or testing negative when they actually do have the disease traveling makes it worse.

What the hell! Soap everyone. Use Soap. Then don’t pick your nose.

Thought of ‘Masque’ too. And the ‘Decameron’. 

oh my god, i am so sorry. i hope that you both are okay. i’ll be thinking of you.

I’m very sorry.

No one can really hide from this 100%. The rich require staff, and staff are tasked with doing their marketing, their cooking and their cleaning..all of which require them to be out among the infected. Your yacht has a messy, germ-y crew that needs to connect with those you are trying to insulate from in order to get…

For the first time in history, they’re holding a closed sumo wrestling basho (tournament), starting in a couple of days. No spectators, just the wrestlers, cameramen, and refs in the arena at any given time. Which, good - a basho goes on for 15 days. 15 days of packed arenas, sweaty guys throwing each other into the…

“The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were…

Yo, anybody remember the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”? Your health is only as secure as the least-cared-for member of your society.  

My work building has hands free facilities in some restrooms (faucets, soap, flushers, towels) and I always walk the extra distance to use those facilities.

But he’s not wrong. The root problem is that they keep a cop on campus to criminalize childhood behavior. SRO’s turn what should be a school discipline problem into jail time. The whole program needs to be abolished.

That’s my other gig- Valhalla Tours. We cater to white people who are ‘suspiciously’ into Norse shit by taking them out on a viking longboat and sinking it somewhere west of Iceland.

This is tangentially related but places with public restrooms please for the love of god keep the paper towels stocked.

“What are those for?” she asks, spotting the zip ties in the officer’s hand.

I worked at a primary school where we had to call the cops on a 12-year old. He had severe behavioural issues due to over-indulgent parenting, and a history of rampaging through the classroom smashing up anything he could get his hands on (including people). His parents had indignantly refused all behaviour mod…

Since reparations checks aren’t getting mailed any time soon has anyone considered opening an escape room style business where white people can pay $50/hr to stand in a soundproof room and say the n-word consequence free?

I mean, she could have just said “n-word”. Hell, she could’ve even got a Black guest lecturer if she wanted to make a point about the word. I just don’t get it, y’all.

>> Turner was disciplined no less than seven times for violating department policy, including injuring his 7-year-old son. Records show Turner, who retired last year and was working in OPD’s Reserve Unit when he arrested Kaia, was also accused of racial profiling and sending threatening texts to his ex-wife.

Employees at the Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy expressed concern to Officer Turner after Kaia was marshaled into the car.