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birlinterrupted:

my mom recently compared covid to ‘a VD’ and its like … wow thatssome retro terminology

a social disease

Oh I got a few likes from this so let’s explain, “sexually transmitted disease”, “venereal disease” and “social disease” all meant the same thing

So in “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story, “social disease” is invoked ironically, the whole song is the juvenile delinquent boys mocking how the cops are falling subject to a farcical sociological “root causes” discourse