The Enemy Above

I was reading Frank Herbert’s shockingly underrated The Dosadi Experiment on a flight the other day, and marked this passage for future reference. Herbert’s world-building is complex, but suffice to say that McKie, of the Bureau of Sabotage, is deposing Aritch, an elite Gowachin (the frog people), as his client under Gowachin Law. The Gowachin control an entire prison planet, Dosadi, populated by both human and Gowachin, test subjects all.

A Trump Stronghold Grapples With Health Risks of ICE Detention Sites

Lambert here: Warehousing people in a literal warehouse. “Congregate settings” like jails, homeless shelters, and nursing homes are all prey to communicable diseases — Covid, for example. I wonder if the mercs at GEO Group, which hopes to run the facility in Social Circle, have given consideration to how their ventilation system could mitigate — or intensify — the spread of airborne pathogens. I’m guessing no.