Me: huh Johnny Mnemonic's NAS, X-Men's Legacy Virus, and Sewer Gas & Electric's virus that kills all (non-green eyed) black...
Me: huh Johnny Mnemonic’s NAS, X-Men’s Legacy Virus, and Sewer Gas & Electric’s virus that kills all (non-green eyed) black people to awkward shrugs were all ways of processing the AIDS crisis, huh
Also me: yeah so was that Star Wars EU novel where someone is left for dead with a deadly infection but his Jedi lover loves him enough and is a daydream fantasy enough she can go into a trance by his bed for days and drag it out of his blood piece by piece by force of will
first reported cases in ‘81 and The Thing (1982)
anyone can be the threat