Warning! This is Not A Fun-Gi (Guy)

           Has anyone watched Contagion? It is about this virus thing that kills off people in the strangest way possible, through bubbling through the teeth and having a seizure. The first time it happens, it is actually quite scary and leaves a person with a kind of shaky feeling about it. The creepiest thing about it though, is that it honestly is not quite far off from what could actually happen. In fact, frogs have the same immune system as us, or at least close to it, but are being afflicted with a hostile pathogen that these frogs seem to not be able to fight off. It is pretty gruesome because this article shows that this fungus infiltrates their body then just kind of shuts everything down, making the frogs really lethargic and basically crawl out of the water and just die because they cannot find any food to eat.

            This is just like the zombie apocalypse. Imagine that these were humans, humans who have strange growths out of them and drag themselves across the floor with their hands. Imagine one lying on the floor, incredibly hungry, incredibly lethargic, but knows it needs food. Now imagine accidentally leaving a door open, and as someone crosses a dark threshold, one darts out and latches on eating, because it is not that far out of range. Creepy, is it not? One of the reasons that I brought up Contagion is because this virus has been around these frogs for about ten years, and yet this is the first time anyone has obtained a clue or an inkling of what is actually going on, and why it cannot combat it. We may not have a clue, or may not even care, because all humans think they are better than anything else, including other humans.

Of course, if this virus ever spreads to humans, we are probably screwed, us internet folk, because we are lethargic enough without anyone else’s help. Then again by the time we figure out it could spread to humans, people will research like madmen in order to “preserve the human race” when animals die every day of unknown diseases, which do not affect the human race, and so they are inconsequential. Have any of them never heard of the canary in the coal mine analogy? We, humans, basically depend on animals to survive. If a polar bear with its large amounts of fur, dies in the arctic of hypothermia, it says something about the arctic. Inversely, if a camel dies of thirst in the Saharan Desert, it starts to say something about the livability of the desert.