The Last Poster Wins [v32]

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah, seems like it's going to be a similar deal as getting regular flu vaccines. I'm just glad I can easily go entire days now with totally forgetting Covid was even a thing. 2020 was... a big pile of suck I'd rather not go through again.

[Chakramaster]

Yeah I don't think I can suffer another quarantine like 2020. I have heard the first US death of Monkey Pox was confirmed. Hopefully this doesn't get out of control.

[wemidem]

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[Neo Emolga]

Yeah, I don't think it will get nearly to the point that Covid did. Some people might still have a bit of virus panic mode going on, but I think we're already pretty close to the light at the end of the tunnel.

As far as Monkeypox goes, I think we'll be fine. It really only spreads among those that engage in some rather... well, XXX activities if you know what I mean. But yeah, I've seen some pictures of what it looks like and dang, it's not a pretty thing at all.

Why can't there be cool diseases/viruses that grant us special abilities and powers instead of sicknesses and weaknesses? Feels unfair that all of these things are always detrimental rather than beneficial.

[Voltaire Magneton]

I think you're thinking of Pokerus :P

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah, something like that! But in real life!

Well, at least we don't have people getting turned into zombies or feral ghouls.

[Voltaire Magneton]

I've seen some people who actually didn't get the vaccine because of the zombie scare... like bruh you won't be pulling off a zombie movie protagonist lmao

[Neo Emolga]

Probably got it from watching too much I Am Legend or something like that.

Sure, I can understand some people might be wary of something that was rushed into release, but the alternative of having your lungs get ravaged... yeah, I wouldn't want that.

[Voltaire Magneton]

True. Apparently, it's not rushed, every other vaccine (or scientific work) is delayed for lack of funding. And since it's a global interest, ot got the funds real quick.

[Neo Emolga]

Research and development is INSANELY expensive. It's the kind of thing where you can blow through millions of dollars just to come up empty-handed because the results of testing come out poor or the solution you're trying to make just isn't possible with today's current technology. Meanwhile, even if you get a medicine or medical device that's really quite good but there's too many side effects or it would be too expensive to put on the market and no one could afford it, that could cause the whole thing to go poof as well.

Sometimes the reasons why certain medications or procedures are so expensive is because the money has to make up not only for the costs of research and development that went into making that possible, but it's also to cover all the other research that didn't see the light of day and all the other operational costs as well.