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CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite, Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
(www.huffpost.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026
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We took a personification of disease, and made him Health Secretary. Dafuq did we expect would happen?
Shitting ourselves is far from the worst case scenario here.
One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, shit, I figured death would be more intimidating though, not just an over privileged moron
And the 5th horseman, Kaos (according to Terry Pratchett anyway)
He's clearly Pestilence
I thought they were death, war, conquest and famine, though maybe famine and pestilence go together
I don't think they are actually named
They are in the Bible, had to look it up, it looks like popular fiction often replaces conquest with pestilence since conquest and war are so similar
Maybe it's a Protestant thing? In the Catholic New Testament only death is named
Maybe, I just looked at Wikipedia :D
You are correct, apparently a lot of media/fiction authors swap conquest to pestilence because they feel like it's too close to war.
I had to look it up specifically for pestilence because I was so confused how I got the idea.
So yeah I had that wrong, biblical speaking
Pratchett does Death, War, Famine and Pestilence
Thief of time spoiler
(And Kaos)Hehe no worries i had to look it up, I totally remembered pestilence being one instead of conquest