Insanity Wrap: 'The Last of Us' Zombie Apocalypse Could Be Real Says WHO Expert and You'll Never Believe the Cause

There could be a real-world zombie apocalypse on the horizon, according to an expert in these things, just like on The Last of Us. That’s the big crazy on today’s Insanity Wrap — an entire week’s worth of lefty nuttiness wrapped up in one easy-to-swallow medicated news capsule.

The Fungal Zombie Apocalypse Caused by… You Guessed It

Are you ready for the fungal zombie apocalypse, just like the one on videogame-turned-hit-TV-show, The Last of Us?

That’s the shocking claim made Monday in WorldCrunch: “Having just gone through a pandemic where denialist political discourse turned a significant part of the population into something resembling zombies, the prospect of a new pandemic where a microorganism itself devours the victims’ brains is an unsettlingly real prospect.”

The author — I’ll get to her in a moment — reminded readers with seething condescension towards us “denialists” that some scientists believe that “humans should be less concerned about viruses and bacteria, and more afraid of fungi, which can control the behavior of insects.”

No, that doesn’t mean that our fungus-infected insect overlords will send us to toil in their underground sugar caves. Although as a trusted internet personality, I could be totally helpful in rounding others up for that.

What this means is, in theory, some super-fungus could take control of human behavior and make us eat each other’s brains like they do in that popular zombie apocalypse show that the author, Natalia Pasternak, has glommed on to in her 1,600-word fear-mongering article.
ASIDE: 1,600 words of this fungal zombie apocalypse nonsense. I don’t ask for much, but you owe me bigtime for doing the deep dive on this one so you don’t have to.

It’s a fair question to ask, what might cause the evolution of a zombie apocalypse super-fungus? And if you guessed “global warming,” please give yourself a cookie. “If species that were once geographically separated are forced into closer contact” by global warming, Pasternak warns, “this could favor the passage of viruses and bacteria — and fungi — from one species to another, increasing the number of possible hosts.”

Including human brains as hosts, somehow, causing us to crave the taste of other human brains, presumably. Because The Last of Us said so and everybody is watching it.

Pasternak’s article came to my attention via climate scientist Bjorn Lomborg (you should read his stuff, BTW), who mocked it on Twitter: “Whenever you think the climate alarmist narrative can’t get more silly — it manages to do just that.”

“PS,” Lomborg continued, the “article actually concludes scenario is ‘unlikely’ and ‘global warming seems unfavorable to the parasite’ — but only towards end.” So we find out after 1,600 words that fungi could probably not actually “in theory adapt to a temperature closer to the human body and infect us.”

I already mentioned how much you owe me for this one, right?

Pasternak, by the way, is no internet rando. She works for the World Health Organization and has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Ph.D. and post-doctorate in Microbiology. Continue to full article here.