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Emails - Speculative
Dramatis Personae Jax, K.C., Shane, Tian-shin
In Absentia	2015-11-28 "I always have a lot of signal." (Followed by some searching. Part of Flu Season TP.)
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from: K.C. Love <klove@xaviers.edu> to: Jax Holland <littlemisssunshine@xaviers.edu>, Hua Tian-shin <huatianshin@xaviers.edu> date: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 19:47 subject: Things I Have Learned Forgive the English. I am not sick and have never been sick so my words are safe, for some value of 'safe' given that words from anyone sick or not can still trigger violent episodes in those who are ill. I will try not to do so though to the best of my ability. Here are some things. They may not be relevant things. They may be relevant things. I do not yet know. I have an excess of information and need to trim it down to what matters and what does not matter. I do not know if it is possible to do that online anymore; I suspect more searching will only add to the noise without helping me figure out which is pertinent signal. I always have a lot of signal. Regardless. A list. Unordered. -Talking is irrelevant. Understanding is relevant. Two people speaking the same sounds with different meaning will not infect. Two people speaking the same word that should have the same meaning but not comprehending each other will not infect. -New strain of disease is resistant to old treatment (obvious by now, clearly.) -Uncertain if true or apocryphal: two cases of disease reversing itself. One in woman who had stroke (ensuing severe aphasia), one in man receiving surgery for brain tumor (tumor in the Wernick's area of the cerebral cortex). Both individuals had contracted illness but healthy after their respective episodes. For value of healthy. Stroke and cancer still serious conditions. -Prior to mainstream media reports of 'flu', social media reporting on phenomenon widely. Primarily reporting escalating cases of infected in low income and disenfranchised populations in several neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. -Early reports of illness concentrated disproportionately heavily among people with mutant abilities. -Neighborhoods where illness first hit heaviest also showed in the same period escalating reports from NYPD for crimes committed by people with mutant abilities. -Disease presentation not completely identical in treatable vs untreatable strains? One strain kills faster, one strain alters cognitive function more. (speculative.) -Resistent-strain reanimated dead perhaps not entirely mindless. Disease continues to learn and grow post-death. (speculative.) -List of words I have found that are triggering episodes in infected individuals. Do not translate these into English as they will affect your cognition. I am sure this list is incomplete, I will add to it as I find more. Tumblr has been very helpful in this regard. (here follows not a list of words but a link to a list of ASL GIFs for the following words: 'please', 'time, 'shit', 'damn', 'thanks', 'sorry', 'fuck', 'okay', 'good', 'nice') KCL ((Following this email is a very lengthy list of links as well as many attachments, with cited sources of very variable credibility for much of the information she has described; crime reports, news reports, social media accounts of people reporting on their experiences with the plague; a whole lot of blog posts and tumblr discussions of people's personal experiences of sickness and conversation, a lot of occasionally only-marginally-comprehensible ramblings that take a good deal of deciphering of the ranting of the sick.)) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jax Holland <littlemisssunshine@xaviers.edu> to: Bruce Banner <banner@gmail.com>, Lucien Tesser <lucien.tessier@gmail.com>, Regan Wyngarde <reganwyngarde@gmail.com> Rasheed Toure <rasheed@toure.com> date: Sat, Nov 27, 2015 at 03:13 subject: FW: Things I Have Learned I got this email from one of my students. Still looking into it. But at least a couple parts of it might be of interest to y'all. -Jax < K.C.'s above email follows > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jax Holland <littlemisssunshine@xaviers.edu> to: Hua Tian-shin <huatianshin@xaviers.edu>, Shane Holland <sholland@xaviers.edu> date: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 03:15 subject: Re: Things I Have Learned There's a lot here that could be followed up on. Online or in the city, though I definitely won't be useful on an actual trip anywhere, right now; too sick to be safe. You could follow up with some of the folks from her sources (Email, maybe?) to get more details on those stories. Follow up with folks from those neighborhoods to see what was going on in those early outbreaks. And if zombies are starting to learn -- I don't even know. That's maybe scary or that's -- maybe hopeful. I can't even wrap my head around what that is right now. Jax ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: Shane Holland <sholland@xaviers.edu> to: Hua Tian-shin <huatianshin@xaviers.edu>, Jax Holland <littlemisssunshine@xaviers.edu> date: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 03:23 subject: Re: Things I Have Learned Oh boy smart zombies. That's not out of anyone's nightmares or anything. You may be sick but I'm not. If K.C. has info, I can escort her... somewhere. I can do that, right? Got the JACKET and everything to prove it. Shane ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jax Holland <littlemisssunshine@xaviers.edu> to: Hua Tian-shin <huatianshin@xaviers.edu>, Shane Holland <sholland@xaviers.edu> date: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 04:41 subject: Re: Things I Have Learned Ah. Technically. Yes. It's not against the rules. Strictly speaking. Whether or not it's a wise idea... You know how to handle yourself, though. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: Shane Holland <sholland@xaviers.edu> to: Matt Tessier <matt.tessier@xaviers.edu> date: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 05:13 subject: Re: Things I Have Learned So like the Totally Responsible Adult that I am I am going to venture into the city with a student tomorrow. I am not sure what we will find. POSSIBLY nothing! Possibly something. It may be of interest to your brother and his People if so. If not, maybe we will just die a grisly death of zombies! I'm an excellent salesman, I know. It's no wonder Evolve has managed to stay open all this while! Regardless, it may give the Professor less of a conniption if a Real Actual Teacher was with us. And if we do find anything interesting, you can tell them yourself. Shane ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- from: Hua Tian-shin <huatianshin@xaviers.edu> to: K.C. Love <klove@xaviers.edu>, Jax Holland <littlemisssunshine@xaviers.edu>, Shane Holland <sholland@xaviers.edu> date: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 09:21 subject: Re: Things I Have Learned K.C.: Excellent work, I am very grateful ! Shane: I've already volunteered for patrol, and cannot go with you today. But if you need a Mandarin or Cantonese interpreter tomorrow, please send me a text. Jax: I really think we should check in with the rest of the team on this. It reminds me disquieting of that encounter Joshua and I had in Brooklyn at the end of July. Sincerely, Tian-shin -----------------------------------------------------------------------------