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  • To be fair, there is a smell, albeit a more subtle one than full decomposition, right after death. I’m not talking about excrement, I’m talking about the other smell. When a body dies, think of it not just as a release of the bowels but everything else as well. Cellular release begins such that kissing a corpse goodbye, on the forehead, as often takes place in movies and such, would also be taking on a corpse-y bacterial load. Viral if otherwise infected. In the most benign sense, probably just staph In the unrefridgerated, small enclosed space of a plane you’re going to want to get the corpse hauled off asap.

    Not the best article to convey this breakdown, but it illustrates the potential here.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360132325006419





  • I initially thought: Yes!

    Then: Oh, it must be Saturday for this to be happening at all.

    I checked the date. It’s not Saturday. In addition the weather is awful.

    I came back around to: Yes!

    Do protests need to be sustained to be effective? Of course. Widespread? Absolutely. Regardless, the standard guardrails on protest comfort we’ve witnessed thus far are broken here, in a good way. Cascade effects may follow.

    The problem is if it remains local to one city, that’s easy peasy for authorities to squelch.