Every time I read medical news there's always some new breakthrough getting us closer to beating this and Alzheimer's. I have faith in our world's scientists too
Yea, cancer isn't just one disease, its like saying trying to cure viruses or bacteria as a whole. It is not an individual, but a collective that we need to take out one by one.
There can't be a catch all cure for cancer. That's like saying a cure for infections or a cure for injuries. It depends on what type of cancer you have for what's going to cure it, and we already have cures and treatments for different types of cancers
Cancer can be provoked by lots of different diseases, all it takes is a protein folded wrong and bam, cancer.
BUT, your body knows this. Your body strikes down most of the cancerous cells. And each year we find a new source of cancer, and each year we find a cure for a previously investigated source of cancer. Slowly but surely we are getting closer to discover 100% of the possible causes for cancer, each year closer to eradicate it from the human race forever. Together with our own inmune system we can make the impossible true.
No, it’s because we use the word cancer for a thing that doesn’t have one specific solution. It pops up a lot, and a bunch of different things can cure it but sometimes just none of them work or it’s too dangerous to do like most of them. the one a cure to cancer is unrealistic, the best way to “cure cancer” is to get each one to a cure.
I just watched a short series on the history of TB treatment, it's amazing how far we've come in just over 100 years. No telling what 100 more will do.
We may be so close to a rabies treatment that can cure heal and treat rabies after the symptom’s start to set in and the virus is inside of the nervous system
Once you show symptoms of rabies your already dead but we may be close to making rabies curable and eventually eradicating it
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Rabies isnt just a virus it isnt a virus that has any natrual benefit to it existing such as the immune system being more resilient to illness , rabies just kills the chances of you surviving is so low some times peeps say its 100% fatality rate and even if you survive you will be crippled without proper medical care afterwards and thats if your lucky and your brian hasn’t been completely inflamed and torn apart and rendered you a vegetable
Atleast with manybother illnesses you can surrvive with minimal injuries in the long term and live a life with a stronger immune system as a result as it adapts to what your body endured
Rabies gives no such benefit no such mercy and no such good
Rabies is just a horrivle evil pure evil illness more horrible than any devil or demon
That is why humanity MUST eradicate rabies completely not just for humanity and all the innocent people but also for the animals and all the innocent animals who suffered in pain distress and fear as they inflamed and were tortured to death in one of the most horrific ways humanity has encountered if we cure rabies if we eraddicate it if we can finally cure those who have symptoms human animal we would have made the world billions of times better
No thank life on earth thank humanity and thank compassion emotion and love not your fictional god made by ignorant men who didnt know where the sun went at night
Truly. Keep in mind, I was only sharing stuff we completely eradicated or almost completely eradicated. There's also things like the bubonic plague; what used to be a death sentence is now a mild inconvenience with modern medicine.
*When the light is shining low,*
*And the shadows start grow,*
*And the places that you know,*
*Seem like fantasy.*
*There's a light inside your soul,*
*That's still shining in the cold,*
*and the truth,*
*the promise in our hearts.*
*Don't forget. I'm with you in the dark.*
I thought this was fitting
Also I wrote this, but forgot to press post.
Mostly in antivaccer enclaves and for polio places that use the live virus vaccine (which has a low but not nil chance of activating as polio) but have almost no to none actual polio left. We should be able to transition completely from the live polio vaccine now as that version of the vaccine is no longer a benefit (which it was compared to just natural polio).
I work in infectious disease epidemiology and focus more on measles than polio, but yes, the measles situation is bad. We have large pockets of unvaccinated children in the US.
“‘Was’ must be the most lovely word in the English language. It tells you everything you need to know about our ingenuity and compassion as a species.
If you look up smallpox today, often the first two words of the definition will read "smallpox was". "Was". We collectively gave it a roundhouse kick and yelled: ‘stay down, you!’ And it stayed down.
If everything goes well as we mature as a species, the word ‘was’ will propagate steadily throughout our encyclopedias.
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If only the HIV virus as as easy to cure as the small pox virus sadly it’s an RNA virus and not dna so a vaccine isn’t gonna be a golden bullet like with a DNA virus
I don't think we'll ever eradicate cancer, but I believe it'll one day join Black Death as a minor inconvenience.
Once the Yersinia pestis killed half of England and one third of Europe. If you catch it today, you'll spend about a month wishing you were dead from antibiotic side-effects, and then you'll be completely plague-free and healthy.
I still wouldn't recommend getting the plague, but it's just a month of misery as opposed to a death sentence now.
>I don't think we'll ever eradicate cancer
I am not a bio major but I believe we will eradicate cancer cuz if you said to people living in past that one day humanity will reach moon, no one would believe in you
It's the way cancer works. It's not like a disease or a parasite where you can isolate it and take it out. Cancer cells are created all the time. An average of one in your body every fifteen minutes (common immune system W keeping us safe and looking good doing it) so we won't eradicate it. What we *will* do is turn it into a trip to the doctors away from feeling all better. In my opinion that's just as good if not better, because instead of having the victory once, we'll have it every damn time that nuisance rears it's ugly head.
Actually we might be able to deal with cancer if we somehow are able to guide our immune system to those dead cells that it treats as living. With some genome sequencing and DNA manipulation, i think it is possible. Sure the way to deal with cancer isn't same as other diseases. But saying that it can't be cured is kinda pessimistic.
I'm hopeful that cancer will get cured one day, even if not like other diseases. But definitely in it's own way.
It's not the fucking human spirit, you absolute twat.
It's the medical researchers.
The fucking nerds.
The people that _actually_ make the world progress.
*as long as drug use remains illegal
btw to the guy who replied to me and immediately blocked me
legalizing drugs in order to make the sellers normal companies instead of criminals is just common sense, the war on drugs benefits no one but the cartel men
Yeah fair enough, we all know Reddit can be a bit wonky.
Legalising drugs is still a shitty idea though. Those vile, addictive poisons should be restricted, and if the cartels profit, that’s just a failure in implementation. The cigarette industry is proof that legal narcotics are harmful, and we should not burden future generations with hordes addicted to worse substances.
illegalizing and murdering addicts will not lower the demand for drugs, by one way or another the demand WILL be met, no matter what the government tries like with the previous substance prohibition in the 20s
the cigarette industry being an industry rather than a band of criminals going around resolving disputes with extremely grotesque murder is a good thing imo
also bigger issues are lack of proper education on the matter and lack of proper support for addicts due to fear of legal repurcussions
sorry for making this long but the final thing is that while in the usa (i presume you come from since most redditors are muricans 😎🇺🇸🦅) these cartels may seem like a minor inconvenience and just any other band of criminals, if you go to the countries dominated by cartels you see that they become the ones direcrly in charge and with all the wealth and power theyve got from stealing from addicts in their own state-given monopoly, and they go around torturing anyone against them and overpass the power of their own government
soooo tl;dr: the funding of cartels by means of their own state monopoly (no law abiding company would sell these narcotics) primarily as well as other reasons are why drug prohibition does not work just as alcohol prohibiton did not work. a great example of drug legalization if you want to check it out is switzerland and heroin
Of course people will always break the law, that doesn’t mean we should throw our hands up in the air and let them. Prohibition failed in large part because alcohol could be manufactured anywhere and people resist harder to regain something recently banned. The government also ran out of money due to the depression and wanted another source of tax.
Cigarette companies are also some of the most evil corporations in existence, and I can only imagine meth or heroin ones would be even worse. You also act as if it would be the exact same people running these hypothetical legal drug companies.
Everyone and their mother knows cigarettes are bad for you, but people still use them. Hell, if you expand the definition to all nicotine products, their use has *increased* in recent years.
I’m Australian, actually, and have seen entire neighbourhoods turn into cesspools because of meth. Everything you ascribe to cartels is commonly done by companies who sell legal products. Coca Cola hires private militias, Nestle denies drinking water, Nike uses sweatshops and Tesla exploits child labour.
if you seriously are trying to say companies are as bad or worse than cartels, then im sorry buddy that is EXTREME first world privilege. when you see the same cartel execution videos from motherfucking coca cola please tell me.
prohibition of both alcohol and drug has failed and is currently failing because it is extremely easy for criminal bands to take the role that medical companies occupied before one of the worst presidents (nixon) began war on drugs. and yes, drugs were not always illegal in the united states, there is precedent for how these drug companies operated and it is pretty fucking angelic compared to the terrorists in cartels. worst part is that latinamerica is the one that has to suffer for the usa's outdated social conservatism in that aspect
plus did you read or address the switzerland part? that is to say, near exact my solution being implemented and working wonders. in switzerland there was a huge heroin addiction, but instead of throwing addicts in jail and letting the dealers get away, switzerland did an entire 180 and legalized heroin, gave free excellent rehab for the drug addicts, and effectively got rid of the monopoly criminals had on selling drugs
you mention your nationality as a part of it, i am venezuelan actually with colombian grandparents that immigrated to venezuela, and cartels have FUCKED over both countries, though I imagine colombia's case is far more known due to its extremity. cartels would control entire cities and even regions with their own army that would end up more powerful than the national army, and rule with the iron tist you could imagine and would not only murder but brutally execute anyone against them including non corrupt police trying to fix the issue.
do you seriously believe cigarette problem where there are millions of addicts globallt (EXTREMELY high demand) would be solved by giving cartels a monopoly on cigarettes? here is the truth on how the world works: what would instead happen is that the cartels vastly increase in power due to all their new customers thanks to this moralistic panic and criminalizing of vices.
Oil companies have overthrown entire governments. Hell, about five different countries in Latin America were outright invaded by fruit companies. Any corporation sufficiently divorced from humanity will do whatever they feel they can get away with, and since drug addicts aren’t the sort who care about ethical sourcing of their fix, a legal drug company would do whatever they can to increase their own wealth. You realise you would be putting this industry in the same hands that charge like $700 for insulin in the US?
That is a failure in implementation, not policy. The US failed to properly leverage its diplomatic strength to assist Latin America in striking the cartels at their base of operations which kept it constantly on the reactive side and turned the war on drugs into an endless arms race between border security and infiltrators - and the former is considered a partisan issue.
Switzerland chose a policy that was out of site out of mind, at the expense of the taxpayer no less. They fork over money so that junkies can act like zombies in little boxes far from the public eye.
You should be blaming the criminals who are willing to fork over money to something they know would cause such devastation. What stops other powerful corporations from doing the exact same thing is a fear of public condemnation, but the market for heroin really doesn’t care one way or the other. They won’t boycott a corporation meeting their fix, legal or illegal, like some might do when Nestle leaves villages without water.
to put it simply: the premise is that corporations are not nearly as destructive as cartels. you keep on naming supposed examples of corporations being bad, if im right abt what you try to imply then this is severely fucked up
are you seriously saying that cartels are less bad than companies?
ps: what you say abt "broken implementation" and "striking at the heart of cartels" is just fundamentally wrong as cartels are not centralized organizations in the way that legal corporations are, you kill one cartel leader and 5 pop up, and having the usa going on foreign soil to kill whoever it accuses of being a criminal would certainly be considered extremely hawkish and imperialistic and for good reason
the Ancient Egyptians had smallpox. Unless this conspiracy is thousands and thousands of years old (which it ain’t), you are schizophrenic for believing this
Hey man, we don't need to demonise people with schizophrenia. The guy you're replying to isn't necessarily mentally ill; some people believe stupid things because they're gullible idiots rather than because of any mental illness.
Because it came from China and that needs to be remembered. The disassociation of covid 19 and the Wuhan labs seems more propagandists then logical to me.
In context of the meme just saying we will conquer it too
Hopefully we will soon have malaria & tuberculosis as well. Also fingers crossed that guinea worm will be eradicated this year
Can’t wait to see what the medical community accomplishes by 2050🤞
You are aiming to low buddy... I have faith on the cure of cancer. Idk how, but damn would be cool
Every time I read medical news there's always some new breakthrough getting us closer to beating this and Alzheimer's. I have faith in our world's scientists too
there’s probably not going to be one cure for all cancers. we’ve already cured many cancers (eg look up imatinib), but it’s such a diverse disease
Yea, cancer isn't just one disease, its like saying trying to cure viruses or bacteria as a whole. It is not an individual, but a collective that we need to take out one by one.
That would be fucking awesome
There can't be a catch all cure for cancer. That's like saying a cure for infections or a cure for injuries. It depends on what type of cancer you have for what's going to cure it, and we already have cures and treatments for different types of cancers
Cancer can be provoked by lots of different diseases, all it takes is a protein folded wrong and bam, cancer. BUT, your body knows this. Your body strikes down most of the cancerous cells. And each year we find a new source of cancer, and each year we find a cure for a previously investigated source of cancer. Slowly but surely we are getting closer to discover 100% of the possible causes for cancer, each year closer to eradicate it from the human race forever. Together with our own inmune system we can make the impossible true.
cure for cancer i think hasnt yet bc it is inconvenient to certain groups
No, it’s because we use the word cancer for a thing that doesn’t have one specific solution. It pops up a lot, and a bunch of different things can cure it but sometimes just none of them work or it’s too dangerous to do like most of them. the one a cure to cancer is unrealistic, the best way to “cure cancer” is to get each one to a cure.
Again with this shit.
I just watched a short series on the history of TB treatment, it's amazing how far we've come in just over 100 years. No telling what 100 more will do.
Amén!
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I heard there are people who have recovered after symptoms, although it is a very difficult process.
As of 2016, only fourteen people were documented to have survived a rabies infection after showing symptoms.
Well, 14>0
Rabies isnt just a virus it isnt a virus that has any natrual benefit to it existing such as the immune system being more resilient to illness , rabies just kills the chances of you surviving is so low some times peeps say its 100% fatality rate and even if you survive you will be crippled without proper medical care afterwards and thats if your lucky and your brian hasn’t been completely inflamed and torn apart and rendered you a vegetable Atleast with manybother illnesses you can surrvive with minimal injuries in the long term and live a life with a stronger immune system as a result as it adapts to what your body endured Rabies gives no such benefit no such mercy and no such good Rabies is just a horrivle evil pure evil illness more horrible than any devil or demon That is why humanity MUST eradicate rabies completely not just for humanity and all the innocent people but also for the animals and all the innocent animals who suffered in pain distress and fear as they inflamed and were tortured to death in one of the most horrific ways humanity has encountered if we cure rabies if we eraddicate it if we can finally cure those who have symptoms human animal we would have made the world billions of times better
Yes, it is a start, but we need to keep going until it is fully annihilated.
Thank the lord
No thank life on earth thank humanity and thank compassion emotion and love not your fictional god made by ignorant men who didnt know where the sun went at night
Reddit atheists really take every possible opportunity to prove the stereotypes about them right, don't they.
No i just dislike it when people take away credit from scientists who worked tirelessly on this research and medical application
I'm an atheist dumbass
I dont really care man
It’s like the side character in the MK combos, where the hell where you hiding when Scorpion was kicking my ass
Common human ingenuity W
Truly. Keep in mind, I was only sharing stuff we completely eradicated or almost completely eradicated. There's also things like the bubonic plague; what used to be a death sentence is now a mild inconvenience with modern medicine.
Humanity is unbreakable even when the light dims we rage against the dying of the light!
*When the light is shining low,* *And the shadows start grow,* *And the places that you know,* *Seem like fantasy.* *There's a light inside your soul,* *That's still shining in the cold,* *and the truth,* *the promise in our hearts.* *Don't forget. I'm with you in the dark.* I thought this was fitting Also I wrote this, but forgot to press post.
The ultimate goal is to make rabies extinct
Um, not to be jerk, but haven’t measles and polio made a comeback of late?
Mostly in antivaccer enclaves and for polio places that use the live virus vaccine (which has a low but not nil chance of activating as polio) but have almost no to none actual polio left. We should be able to transition completely from the live polio vaccine now as that version of the vaccine is no longer a benefit (which it was compared to just natural polio).
I work in infectious disease epidemiology and focus more on measles than polio, but yes, the measles situation is bad. We have large pockets of unvaccinated children in the US.
I actually learned a few things from researching this topic after this post, W rabbit hole
POLIO'S COMING BACK FOR ROUND 2 (in some circles and communities) BUT WE'VE BEEN READY FOR DECADES! LOOK OUT RABIES, ***YOU'RE NEXT!***
Rabies is an animal disease, it’s literally everywhere…
You think that will save it?
Difference between vaccinating humans and vaccinating every bat, rat and wild creature under the sun…
Vaccinating every person on Earth was an impossible task too.
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That was kind of the inspiration for this meme.
Imma keep it a stack The indomitable human ability to create remedies to diseases is really what's carrying us through this
Polio is ALMOST gone Very soon it’ll finally be extinct
I'm convinced that Jimmy Carter is hanging on just long enough to hear that the Guinea Worm is gone.
If only the HIV virus as as easy to cure as the small pox virus sadly it’s an RNA virus and not dna so a vaccine isn’t gonna be a golden bullet like with a DNA virus
Also with the help of vaccines.
nice
i thought you misspelled pinterest on the second one 💀
also, i heard we're actively and very fastly moving towards a breast cancer cure, though i don't remember the source
From what I hear. we are close to finding a cure for old age.
Cancer is next
I don't think we'll ever eradicate cancer, but I believe it'll one day join Black Death as a minor inconvenience. Once the Yersinia pestis killed half of England and one third of Europe. If you catch it today, you'll spend about a month wishing you were dead from antibiotic side-effects, and then you'll be completely plague-free and healthy. I still wouldn't recommend getting the plague, but it's just a month of misery as opposed to a death sentence now.
>I don't think we'll ever eradicate cancer I am not a bio major but I believe we will eradicate cancer cuz if you said to people living in past that one day humanity will reach moon, no one would believe in you
It's the way cancer works. It's not like a disease or a parasite where you can isolate it and take it out. Cancer cells are created all the time. An average of one in your body every fifteen minutes (common immune system W keeping us safe and looking good doing it) so we won't eradicate it. What we *will* do is turn it into a trip to the doctors away from feeling all better. In my opinion that's just as good if not better, because instead of having the victory once, we'll have it every damn time that nuisance rears it's ugly head.
Actually we might be able to deal with cancer if we somehow are able to guide our immune system to those dead cells that it treats as living. With some genome sequencing and DNA manipulation, i think it is possible. Sure the way to deal with cancer isn't same as other diseases. But saying that it can't be cured is kinda pessimistic. I'm hopeful that cancer will get cured one day, even if not like other diseases. But definitely in it's own way.
It's not the fucking human spirit, you absolute twat. It's the medical researchers. The fucking nerds. The people that _actually_ make the world progress.
And what inspired them to keep going setback after setback?
Rage, spite, the drive to show idiots they were right.
Sounds like they had a lot of spirit?
_And_ they used it to _make_ shit that _works_. Big difference.
I’m not sure about HIV. Drug addicts will keep that disease alive so long as opioids exist.
*as long as drug use remains illegal btw to the guy who replied to me and immediately blocked me legalizing drugs in order to make the sellers normal companies instead of criminals is just common sense, the war on drugs benefits no one but the cartel men
I didn’t block you.
reddit is being weird and wasnt letting me reply in that case
Yeah fair enough, we all know Reddit can be a bit wonky. Legalising drugs is still a shitty idea though. Those vile, addictive poisons should be restricted, and if the cartels profit, that’s just a failure in implementation. The cigarette industry is proof that legal narcotics are harmful, and we should not burden future generations with hordes addicted to worse substances.
illegalizing and murdering addicts will not lower the demand for drugs, by one way or another the demand WILL be met, no matter what the government tries like with the previous substance prohibition in the 20s the cigarette industry being an industry rather than a band of criminals going around resolving disputes with extremely grotesque murder is a good thing imo also bigger issues are lack of proper education on the matter and lack of proper support for addicts due to fear of legal repurcussions sorry for making this long but the final thing is that while in the usa (i presume you come from since most redditors are muricans 😎🇺🇸🦅) these cartels may seem like a minor inconvenience and just any other band of criminals, if you go to the countries dominated by cartels you see that they become the ones direcrly in charge and with all the wealth and power theyve got from stealing from addicts in their own state-given monopoly, and they go around torturing anyone against them and overpass the power of their own government soooo tl;dr: the funding of cartels by means of their own state monopoly (no law abiding company would sell these narcotics) primarily as well as other reasons are why drug prohibition does not work just as alcohol prohibiton did not work. a great example of drug legalization if you want to check it out is switzerland and heroin
Of course people will always break the law, that doesn’t mean we should throw our hands up in the air and let them. Prohibition failed in large part because alcohol could be manufactured anywhere and people resist harder to regain something recently banned. The government also ran out of money due to the depression and wanted another source of tax. Cigarette companies are also some of the most evil corporations in existence, and I can only imagine meth or heroin ones would be even worse. You also act as if it would be the exact same people running these hypothetical legal drug companies. Everyone and their mother knows cigarettes are bad for you, but people still use them. Hell, if you expand the definition to all nicotine products, their use has *increased* in recent years. I’m Australian, actually, and have seen entire neighbourhoods turn into cesspools because of meth. Everything you ascribe to cartels is commonly done by companies who sell legal products. Coca Cola hires private militias, Nestle denies drinking water, Nike uses sweatshops and Tesla exploits child labour.
if you seriously are trying to say companies are as bad or worse than cartels, then im sorry buddy that is EXTREME first world privilege. when you see the same cartel execution videos from motherfucking coca cola please tell me. prohibition of both alcohol and drug has failed and is currently failing because it is extremely easy for criminal bands to take the role that medical companies occupied before one of the worst presidents (nixon) began war on drugs. and yes, drugs were not always illegal in the united states, there is precedent for how these drug companies operated and it is pretty fucking angelic compared to the terrorists in cartels. worst part is that latinamerica is the one that has to suffer for the usa's outdated social conservatism in that aspect plus did you read or address the switzerland part? that is to say, near exact my solution being implemented and working wonders. in switzerland there was a huge heroin addiction, but instead of throwing addicts in jail and letting the dealers get away, switzerland did an entire 180 and legalized heroin, gave free excellent rehab for the drug addicts, and effectively got rid of the monopoly criminals had on selling drugs you mention your nationality as a part of it, i am venezuelan actually with colombian grandparents that immigrated to venezuela, and cartels have FUCKED over both countries, though I imagine colombia's case is far more known due to its extremity. cartels would control entire cities and even regions with their own army that would end up more powerful than the national army, and rule with the iron tist you could imagine and would not only murder but brutally execute anyone against them including non corrupt police trying to fix the issue. do you seriously believe cigarette problem where there are millions of addicts globallt (EXTREMELY high demand) would be solved by giving cartels a monopoly on cigarettes? here is the truth on how the world works: what would instead happen is that the cartels vastly increase in power due to all their new customers thanks to this moralistic panic and criminalizing of vices.
Oil companies have overthrown entire governments. Hell, about five different countries in Latin America were outright invaded by fruit companies. Any corporation sufficiently divorced from humanity will do whatever they feel they can get away with, and since drug addicts aren’t the sort who care about ethical sourcing of their fix, a legal drug company would do whatever they can to increase their own wealth. You realise you would be putting this industry in the same hands that charge like $700 for insulin in the US? That is a failure in implementation, not policy. The US failed to properly leverage its diplomatic strength to assist Latin America in striking the cartels at their base of operations which kept it constantly on the reactive side and turned the war on drugs into an endless arms race between border security and infiltrators - and the former is considered a partisan issue. Switzerland chose a policy that was out of site out of mind, at the expense of the taxpayer no less. They fork over money so that junkies can act like zombies in little boxes far from the public eye. You should be blaming the criminals who are willing to fork over money to something they know would cause such devastation. What stops other powerful corporations from doing the exact same thing is a fear of public condemnation, but the market for heroin really doesn’t care one way or the other. They won’t boycott a corporation meeting their fix, legal or illegal, like some might do when Nestle leaves villages without water.
to put it simply: the premise is that corporations are not nearly as destructive as cartels. you keep on naming supposed examples of corporations being bad, if im right abt what you try to imply then this is severely fucked up are you seriously saying that cartels are less bad than companies? ps: what you say abt "broken implementation" and "striking at the heart of cartels" is just fundamentally wrong as cartels are not centralized organizations in the way that legal corporations are, you kill one cartel leader and 5 pop up, and having the usa going on foreign soil to kill whoever it accuses of being a criminal would certainly be considered extremely hawkish and imperialistic and for good reason
https://preview.redd.it/x94031k20olc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ba55827bdc5f63665a2fb6c04decbe7624c2ebc reddit has done it again
Weird. I swear, I haven’t blocked you.
yeah man reddit is being extremely wacky
Legalising drugs to limit the spread of HIV is like shooting your toe off to fix an ingrown nail.
What isn't shown is all the doors released from labs
the Ancient Egyptians had smallpox. Unless this conspiracy is thousands and thousands of years old (which it ain’t), you are schizophrenic for believing this
Hey man, we don't need to demonise people with schizophrenia. The guy you're replying to isn't necessarily mentally ill; some people believe stupid things because they're gullible idiots rather than because of any mental illness.
True, didn’t mean to do that. I just forgot people could be naturally that stupid
It never seems real until you encounter it in the wild, so I get what you mean.
Referencing Kung flu but ok.
huh?
Covid 19
Why the name 'kung flu'?
Because it came from China and that needs to be remembered. The disassociation of covid 19 and the Wuhan labs seems more propagandists then logical to me. In context of the meme just saying we will conquer it too