Five Stages of Zombie Herd Immunity
The Five Stages of Zombie HI: the same structure beneath surface rebrands. “Herd immunity” rebranded repeatedly (“Living with Covid,” “Post-pandemic,” “Endemic”) but the underlying policy (mass infection) remained identical. Shapeshifting.
Source: Proto-Disinfolklore · Twitter (compiled)
The shapeshifting mechanism — the same policy dressed in different costumes. Proto-Rearchetyping: the policy was rearchetyped from “herd immunity” (which sounded dangerous) to “living with Covid” (which sounded inevitable).