Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, can bite you and make you permanently allergic to things, including all meat and certain kinds of seaweed like the one they use in the modern production of industrial ice cream.

A real thing that happens to real people, even though one poll showed that less than half of all medical professionals have even heard of it.

Is the spread of this tick caused by bio-engineering and a sinister billionaire plot?

Might could be, but to get mad about it specifically is to lose the big picture.

‘Cause the whole thing, including most of what I have believed and most of what you still do is acquiescent and compliant with the real, less flashy, far more widespread and insidious plot.

The one that has made this world so much more like the one that Phillip K. Dick was imagining as the future when we were still children.