It's funny how we tie specific people in our lives to things in ways that are flattening and not rational as a way of 'knowing' them or the world Someone in my life (someone HERE; hello 😂 ) has asserted that they love oysters more than almost any food and I now think of them EVERY SINGLE TIME I see the word "vibrio" which is unfortunate and tragically funny. Something like 1 BILLION oysters are consumed US-side every year. Most people do not experience vibrio even once in their lives. Moreover, this person does not love bacteria. They don't have anything in particular to SAY about bacteria. They simply REALLY love oysters. But in the space forced open by our differential valuing of risk, which is underlain by our different experience of the world (I honestly don't know if I've ever eaten a fresh raw oyster, for starters), one way I now think of this person is "vibrio"- I attach the label of the risk that I assume they're ignoring. I wonder where else we do this to one another.