Just a head’s up: I did a fill-in guest strip for David Malki’s wonderful Wondermark.
Of course, I rarely mention that pretty much every extra moment of the week was spent working. But what fun is that?
Gabrielle Bell (born March 24, 1976) is a British-American alternative cartoonist
Makoto Shinkai (born February 9, 1973 (16 days before me)), is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer.
Norovirus is making the rounds, as is its wont. Perhaps it was that.
I second Tim McCormack’s suggestion, especially if no one else at your table got it.
True. It is very possible. Although I did order food nobody else ordered or ate. I’m just happy that I was pretty much fine by morning. 🙂
Glad you recovered so quickly. We still have thousands of deaths from food poisoning. Seems to be the risk you must take to eat.
@Night-Gaunt49, and that number could be reduced even more if more people followed this one simple rule as laid down by my parents:
“WASH YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU’RE DONE IN THE BATHROOM! WERE YOU RAISED IN A BARN?”
With all due respect to the heavenly virtue of cleanliness, the evil of not washing hands often enough is overshadowed by actual evil on an industrial scale. Being raised in a barn sounds positively pristine in comparison. While its nice to think we have individual agency when it comes to food poisoning, we really don’t unless we deliberately remove ourselves from most of the food industry all around us.
We feed grains to cattle because it is cheaper to do so (given subsidies and not having to pay for environmental damages). Cattle stomachs do not actually react all that well to this type of diet, being adapted to grasses, not grains. The E. coli infections which necessarily follow are managed through antibiotics (which further weaken the biodiversity in the digestive tract and incidentally lead to resistant superbugs). Anything less would hurt profits.
Eventually when cattle are slaughtered en masse, we make them do the equivalent of washing their hands/hooves by disinfecting the meat by means of ammonia and the like. When there are gaps in the disinfecting regimen, seriously sick cattle are processed, or meat is not properly cooled or stored for too long – we get another outbreak of food poisoning, perhaps a recall of product. Though recalls get harder to implement given the enormous concentration of production and the resulting potential of cross-contamination which would require recall of thousands of products… this in turn would seriously hurt consumer confidence and profits and we clearly cannot have that.
Do the Crints offer asylum to refugees from dark planets?