what did you want from adults when you were a kid? i wanted answers & reassurance that didn't exist, tbh https://x.com/visakanv/status/1729564085300220241
* by didn't exist I mean I was really worried about pandemics and zoonosis and drug resistance and bioterrorism - I remember doing a project on drug resistant TB in second grade and my worries & research just spiraled from there...
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Reply · Mar 28, 2024@Rado9910 tbh was one of my original motivations (from childhood obsessive fear of pandemics sigh)Reply · Sep 6, 2025@lovabler0gue @tomieinlove 😭 my childhood phobia was pandemics.... if you're terrified of contagion you don't want to work in a labReply · Jun 3, 2025@fauxopulent 😅 i had childhood rants on drug-resistant tb, bird flu (big factor in going vegan tbh), bioterror with anthrax (before 9/11), mrsa, and…Reply · Oct 31, 2022@visakanv As a child I had nightmares about pandemics; I learned that in the actual event I was calmer than people who hadn’t spent a lifetime…