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I keep having this crazy, irresponsible, dangerous... hopeful idea: virus cruises. Take one or more available cruise ships, equip it with ventilators, tests, su
by pjmorris 7y ago
I keep having this crazy, irresponsible, dangerous... hopeful idea: virus cruises. Take one or more available cruise ships, equip it with ventilators, tests, supplie, ask for volunteer crew, passengers, and medical staff, and send everyone off for a two week cruise to get deliberately infected with the virus, study its characteristics, and start to build herd immunity. Seems like it'd be a way to get started fighting back.
- natalyarostova 7y agoLol that’s retarded.
- jawns 7y agoI don't think you realize what the severe cases look like. This isn't chickenpox. This is people drowning in their own fluid-filled lungs, having to be physically restrained to keep from pulling out their tubes, with a surprisingly rapid progression from mild symptoms to requiring a ventilator to being declared dead. You willing to sign up for that?
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- jacquesm 7y agoYou'd be murdering people. That's an un-ethical medical experiment. About as unethical as what already happened to those on the Diamond Princess. 8 of them are dead now, there are still another 15 in critical with some of those expected to eventually die.
- Izkata 7y agoJust to punch it in a bit more: The ship was quarantined about a month and a half ago. This isn't a week-or-so sickness.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y agoIf this is not peak HN I don’t know what it is.
- fma 7y agoYou're getting a lot of downvotes...but this is how the eradication of Smallpox started...through inoculation. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.h...
- burfog 7y agoIt gets interesting if you start people on the anti-viral medication before infecting them. That should make the disease very mild. There might not be anybody who gets severe illness.