As part of my company's employee engagement process, we took part in a Gallup™ poll which uses our answers to create a Strengths profile.
Apparently my top five strengths include the fact that I like to collect things and that the future fascinates me. Imagine my surprise.
Hopefully we're not paying too much for the unearthing of these deeply, deeply buried personal mysteries.
- Sid
Does everyone know who Julie Nolke is? Her YouTube™ channel went viral, as they say on the interwebs, when she posted her Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self video in April of 2020. She's done six sequels in which Future Julie once again delivers the latest bad news to Present Julie (or Present Julie to Past Julie, time travel can make that sort of designation hard to manage).
But what if this is a tragic (and catastrophic) example of the Butterfly Effect? Here's the scenario:
At some point in the present, Julie6 contracts COVID-19, but visits her past self before testing positive. In a domino chain of time jumps, Julie infects Julie again and again, until eventually one of the Julies infects pre-pandemic Julie Prime with the virus. In the video, Julie2 doesn't actually tell Julie Prime what's going on behind her odd lifestyle advice (ironically, to avoid the Butterfly Effect), so she's unaware that her symptoms could be anything other than a standard Canadian cold, albeit a worse case than usual.
Julie Prime innocently goes out to Toronto's Chinatown for dinner, regardless of her odd loss of sense of taste, where she infects a waiter, who infects his brother, who then flies to China to visit relatives...and the rest is history, at least in 2022.
Funny how this sort of thing never comes up on Doctor Who - surely there's a possibility that one of the companions may have had a touch of alien flu during one of the Doctor's visits to Earth's past, perhaps circa 1347 or thereabouts?
- Sid
From the Bakka-Phoenix bathroom: good policy all around, really. (And, surprisingly, not the first bathroom signage featured on this blog.)
- Sid
