This sentence caught my eye:

"they walk muzzled and bovine though stores and supermarkets."

And it reminded me of something that I recently wrote to a friend:

I was poking around the origins of the word "vaccine" and apparently it evolves out of Jenner's work creating an innoculation for variolae vaccinae or cowpox. Vaccinia being the Latin for cow, over time "vaccinated" became synomous with "innoculated" like how kleenix means tissue.

So everytime someones says that they are "vaccinated" they are basically saying that they are "cowed" and that definition:

cowed, adjective frightened into submission or compliance.

Yikes...vaccintated vs unvaccinated. Cowed vs. uncowed. Frightened vs. unafraid.

So is it:

C O V I D - 19

or is it really:

C O W E D - 19

hmmmm.....