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[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 60 points 7 months ago

A human pandemic like that would end up with at least half of the population resisting the cure.

Coincidentally, I think I might've figured a solution to the climate change.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 23 points 7 months ago

Infectious magic mushrooms would be the greatest human pandemic. The last one, too.

[-] phobiac@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

This same fungal infection causes the males to have sex until their butts fall off, so I'm pretty sure some humans would seek it out.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

this is assuming the cults haven't rolled out before the cure

it's so trivially easy to create a psychedelics based cult, and now suddenly everyone is experiencing the same? My friend it'd be a dawn of a new religion

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