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In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.

“Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish” and in need of protection, Ossicini told Italian newspaper La Stampa last year. The “K” stood for Albert Kesselring and Herbert Kappler — two ruthless Nazi commanders.

The doctors instructed “patients” to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. It’s estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.

The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a “House of Life” by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

jews: oh no, oh g-d… our-our SYMPTOMS!

Season is a beautiful bicycling adventure where you explore & document a doomed world.

ok on a superficial level, it’s another ‘toxic’ – a fun, horny, catchy song on the age-old theme of “this relationship is not healthy but wow the sex is good.” even if that was all it was, it would still be political because he’s gay, he’s black, and it’s implied that his lover refuses to acknowlege the relationship in public because of that.

but then you take context into account and it gets real fuckin deep.

like the fact that montero is his own name. “call me by your name” but the title of the song is his name. every character in the epic video is played by LNX himself. he is the innocent creature in the garden AND the serpent that seduces them. he is the council of blue-haired haters, the fluffy pink barbarian they condemn, and the arena of golems that stone him to death. he is the soul ascending, the angel welcoming; the soul descending, the devil indifferent.

like the fact that he’s been very vocal about clapping back to people telling him he’d go to hell, and in the video, he goes to hell, assassinates the devil, and takes over.

this is not just a bop, my friends, this is Art.