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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2014-11-09 07:46:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2014-11-09 07:46:00

Mood: quixotic
Music: Miranda Lambert, "Little Red Wagon."

Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.

I (as Mira Grant) was asking to put together a list of potential pandemics for Buzzfeed. I like anything that gives me an excuse to wallow in delicious virology, so...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/orbitbooks/10-epidemics-waiting-to-happen-that-you-wonat-e-16hk

Enjoy, and remember, medical science is more interested in keeping you alive than it is in cutting you up and reassembling you as a shambling horror.

Most of the time.

Tags: making lists, mira grant, pandemic time, silliness

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seanan_mcguire

November 9 2014, 23:12:12 UTC 2 years ago

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Needles are scary, smallpox is scarier.

acelightning

November 10 2014, 09:49:53 UTC 2 years ago Edited: November 10 2014, 09:52:55 UTC

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I had the smallpox vaccination, when I was too young to know what was going on. I had a blister-shaped scar on my upper thigh, because that was how they administered the smallpox vaccine, not through a simple needle. Girls got the vaccination on their thigh so it wouldn't be visible when they wore ordinary clothes of the time. Boys got it on their upper arm because nobody cared if a boy had a scar on his arm.

Frankly, most of the ones I didn't get as a child aren't much of a risk for me now. I don't think I'm going to be exposed to any form of hepatitis, or HPV, or meningitis - at least I'll try my very hardest not to be.

Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.

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