Quote (Bazi @ Nov 18 2015 10:55pm)
Eh realistic vs these bugs right now are carbapenems but that class has its own disadvantages as well. I thought I read an article about them being covered by 5th gen cephalosporins but it seems like I might have been incorrect about that.
Nevertheless, experimental and new drugs will have their role but they won't be accessible for the masses.
They will be accessible for the wealthy masses, while things like intellectual property make a bucket of aids medicine, costing a couple bucks to make, out of reach for the vast majority of the world's citizens, due to the profit motive and thugs making sure other people don't create anything similar through law.
No, the first step is assertive governments loyal to their people not being cowards in the face of economic imperialism and dispelling the inappropriate notions of non-existent intellectual property that for some reason we are pretending is something we have to respect more than actual existing people who need medicine.
Even if a magic bullet was made to make everyone better and there was enough for everyone, some capitalist will come along and fuck up the distribution so bad that ten people have everything and a hundred people are in misery.
This post was edited by Skinned on Nov 19 2015 06:15am