Oh look, it’s a record-breakingly warm winter.

Again.

See y’all next year.

When the term came in to fashion, people weren't too interested in the beneficial healing properties of scabs. They were ugly and unclean, and closely associated with sores and diseases like Syphillis. Scab as an insult was more broad until the turn of the 18th century labor movement. Stephanie Smith put it well: "Just as a scab is a physical lesion, the strikebreaking scab disfigures the social body of labor—both the solidarity of workers and the dignity of work."