“You can’t have both of the parasites.” – Fight Club
A tapeworm showed up to a party and got kicked out. I guess the guy was a terrible host.
When I think about parasites, I start with thinking about the GloboLeft. Somebody like George Soros has been sucking at the economy, producing no value, and trying his best to control its brain.
Like Toxoplasmosis gondii.
Toxoplasmosis gondii (T. gondii from here on out) is, like a gender-studies major, a parasite. It has an interesting life cycle, in that it often occurs in cats. In reality, it can infest any warm blooded animal (and birds as well) but most people are aware from due to its association with cats, and not the Broadway musical, but the fuzzy felines.
I want to write a Broadway show titled Vocabulary. It’ll be a play on words.
T. gondii likes to infest cats. Since it occurs as cysts in animals, T. gondii has developed the ability to change the behavior of mice and rats. Specifically, T. gondii changes the brain and behavior patterns of rodents to make them less worried about being dinner.
Of things that rodents don’t like, “being eaten alive” is pretty near the top of the list. Uninfected rodents really hate the smell of cat pee and avoid it, since cat pee often occurs near where cats are, and cats like to eat rodents alive, just for sport.
However, give a rodent an infection of T. gondii and it either loses it’s aversion to cat pee or becomes attracted to it. It also reduces the behaviors associated with avoiding predators and makes the mice more bold and less worried about predators. It also makes them hyperactive, increases the distances they travel, and makes the reckless when they show up at a new area.
Yes. T. gondii turns mice into little mobile food trucks for cats. This is on purpose, so the cats eat the mice, and then get infected, and then poop, and then spread T. gondii everywhere.
Mary Poppins Food Truck Review: “Super cauliflower-cheese but the lobster was atrocious.”
Well, there’s a horrifying thought! A parasite that changes the behavior of creatures! Thankfully humans don’t get it, and it doesn’t impact human behavior?
Well, nazzo fast, Guido.
It turns out that T. gondii just loves to hitch a ride into humans. And just like it changes the behavior of rats and cats and mice, studies have shown that it also impacts humans as well. How?
T. gondii has shown to have some of these effects in people:
- Increases impulsive behaviors,
- Increased car accidents,
- Increased road rage, and
- Increased mental illness (like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder).
Yeah, T. gondii is a disaster for people since if you look at the list above, it appears to turn them into GloboLeftists. It also messes with human immune systems so it doesn’t get eaten, makes healthy cells die, increases inflammation, and may even encourage other parasites to join the party by downregulating the parts of the human immune system that keep them out.
Staying up all weekend is fun – after all, sleep is for the week.
Thankfully it’s rare, right?
Nope. In women of childbearing age, infection rates are:
- 50%-80% in Latin Americans,
- 20%-60% in Eastern Europeans,
- 30%-50% in the Middle Easterners,
- 20%-60% in Southeast Asians,
- 20%-55% in Africans, and
- 7% in the United States natives (2004 data) but 28.1% in foreign-born.
Billions of people have this parasite, T. gondii. But that’s just one parasite.
I had that parasite. Didn’t care for it.
Let’s take this a step further.
There are large numbers of parasites beyond T. gondii that infect and impact humanity. I looked it up and came to two conclusions:
- Parasites are really gross and repulsive.
- There are hundreds of different types of parasites out there.
How likely is it, of all of the different types of parasites that impact humanity that the only one that impacts behavior is T. gondii? If I were a betting man, I’d lay money that there are certainly more parasites than not impact behavior. And since many of these parasites require exposure to blood or poop to increase the number of hosts, well, might the behaviors that the parasite “encourages” be tied to more exposure to those things?
It’s a thought.
Once again, when looking at the religious themes of chastity, heterosexuality, monogamy, and modesty, it occurs to me that all of those virtuous behaviors – every single one of them – reduces exposure to parasites and disease that may take over our minds.
Is it just a coincidence that as adherence to chastity, heterosexuality, monogamy, and modesty are tossed away as old, outmoded thinking that we find ourselves in a world surrounded by triggered adherents of Clown World? Perhaps the warnings we’ve seen in the past of those possessed by demons was, at least in part, based on parasites. It seems like all the behavior that leads to the fall of civilizations tends to increase the likelihood that people will catch parasites.
Where do Viking clowns go? Val-ha-ha.
Maybe, maybe it’s only the GloboLeft, but the GloboLeft is actively encouraging behaviors that result in the perpetuation of parasites. Today. Ever wonder why the GloboLeft reacted so harshly to ivermectin being a potential cure to COVID? It kills parasites.
What would have happened if GloboLeftists had taken it and found out that their lives are a lie and their predilection to certain sexual practices was actually parasite mind control?
Are the GloboLeftists, in addition to being parasites, are also being consumed and controlled by parasites?
You be the judge.