[Covid] The USA Protestant Work Ethic-indoctrinated side of my brain: "WE NEED TO GO BACK TO WORK WE'RE BEING LAZY TIME FOR WORK AGAIN"
The Logical, and also jaded part of my brain: "Nope. Got the plague, still hacking up my lungs, I'm not going to listen to you and make myself worse by trying to push through the literal plague."

I'm lucky enough that my Grandma has offered to help us out with the bills this month, since we all got it at the exact same time, so I'm gonna give myself like a week's worth of time off to try and recover from this bullshit.

now now it's not the literal plague... I'm pretty sure that's much more readily treatable these days

it's the modern day plague

LOL It actually is, to the point that when some samples of plague accodentally got lost at Texas Tech when I still lived in Lubbock, there was an initial moment of /Gaspu! / before, upon further reading up on it, Doctors were like "Naw, bro, it's cool, we got this shit. That shit's super not a problem, anymore."

But yeah, this is definitely the modern "plague" in the loosest definition of that term.

funny how sometimes in shows the literal black death pops up due to shenaniganry, and people act so freaked out by it

and yet /points at what's going on in the world today

Ayep. Pretty much. I 100% guarantee, if the black plague became pandemic again, there would still be people saying it was a curse from God to punish us for our sins. Sometimes it seems like we really have not advanced much, socially, from the middle ages.