Breeding
November 6th, 2007
I’ve been ill for the past week or two, with some sort of cold & flu thing, which has been incredibly annoying. Not only that, but it makes the commute into work that much more unpleasant because I know I’m one of the people in the carriage who is infecting everyone else. And I hate it when other people do that. But I got thinking about the network of transmission; a DAG of disease sweeping through the population. I wonder if the clique would be commuters, on the tube, meeting every morning and evening to cross-breed their germs. Gathering new specimens and training them against their immune systems and drug regimens, selecting them for greater virulence and tolerance. The next morning, they’ll be back on the tube to try out their improved strains. On me (cf. Catch-22).
Its a bit like Petz (TM), but you don’t need AA batteries.
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