A vaccine/cure is worthless
Alot of people fail to bring up one very important thing when it comes to a vaccine. While you can say it would cure the zombie part of you, youd still be missing alot of your important organs. Not to mention you'd be rotted, everything. Sort of like decompression. If you were exposed to mars atmosphere, and everything started getting bloated and swelling, then mars suddenly gained an atmosphere. That wouldnt just go away.
vaccine would be more useful though. However, its something you need to give MANKIND. And given the apocolypse sort of wiped out most forms of communication, thats pretty worthless now.
So while it would be smarter to make a vaccine, only it would be good for survival ONLY. It would not save mankind. A cure would only make the majority of walkers die. Unless it was lee's case where he didnt amputate the arm, and it was almost immediately after he died.
Also, the argument of making a cure that regenerates organs is highly implausible due to the fact that science hasnt gotten that far yet as to create a medicine that can create organs, at least not made public yet. And given circumstances now, its an impossible feet.
So throw any ??? or Mankind thread you want at me, unless the person was hitler level evil, Id go with saving them.
vaccine would be more useful though. However, its something you need to give MANKIND. And given the apocolypse sort of wiped out most forms of communication, thats pretty worthless now.
So while it would be smarter to make a vaccine, only it would be good for survival ONLY. It would not save mankind. A cure would only make the majority of walkers die. Unless it was lee's case where he didnt amputate the arm, and it was almost immediately after he died.
Also, the argument of making a cure that regenerates organs is highly implausible due to the fact that science hasnt gotten that far yet as to create a medicine that can create organs, at least not made public yet. And given circumstances now, its an impossible feet.
So throw any ??? or Mankind thread you want at me, unless the person was hitler level evil, Id go with saving them.
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again, cure is 100% worthless.
the vaccine being spread airborne would prevent more walkers, but that doesnt kill the walkers. So basically, you can either kill all walkers currently standing, or you can prevent more walkers from being made.
Not to mention, it takes more time to spread through the air than one may think.
Thats no small feet. And not to mention, a cure is almost impossible to make anyway. The amount of time and people dying would be immense. Overall, when zombies attack, the worlds over...
unless its like shaun of the dead where the military actually wins and the zombies are actually used to do brainless jobs XD
I love that movie so much.
The vaccine is a light form of virus in of which gives a person immunity to disease. Again theoretically, scientists may try to invent a vaccine IF they have a sample of the virus in the original form, genetic engineering can do everything, with the proper equipment. But If Kirmkann says "Never" it's ok.
Why I create my topic Manking or Clem? Just because it was difficult question personally for me, that's all.
True enough I suppose, though it still would be very difficult.
I hope I didnt offend the topic you were making. However given the apocolypse, reverse engineering would be rather difficult unless you had the proper people with the proper equipment.
STOP THA CYCLE FOREVER
Sorry, Geth and EDI.
The matter is not in the vaccine, it's all about choice between a little girl whom I love very much (in this story) and mankind. And no matter vaccine, or a magic wand that saves the world, it's doesn't matter.
thats not what THIS topic was about. I mentioned it yea, because its what inspired this topic, not what message i was trying to put out here.
I just explained why I asked this question to myself and to other users of this forum.
Ok ok, sorry if i offended you.
Don't forget the COD Zombies cast, o wait, THEY DON'T EXIST!!!
Niko Bellic then?
People infected with black plague didnt eat other people did they?
A cure is orthless, a vaccine isnt. A vaccine would mak you protected from the diesease, however, it doesnt repel zombies. they still eat people, so even if you were immune dealing with zombies is still a priority. I mean when you get down to it, in a zombie flick most people get eaten alive causing them to die as apposed to a bite really. So getting eaten is a bigger problem than getting infected.
Barely anyone actually dies of bites they more often starve or are ripped to pieces...
You can't cure your guts being ripped out...
If people were able to stop coming back when they die what would that actually do?
All it takes is burning of bodies or shooting dead bodies to prevent walkers...
If the cure wiped out zombies that isn't really a cure it is really a biological weapon of mass destruction...
So yes a cure/vaccine wouldn't save anyone really...
glad somebody understood what I was saying as appose to Vengeful Kenny. Hope nobody thinks im trying to be an asshole, but the facts are facts.
I think mankind is fucked anyway, but if there's even the slightest chance that it's not, I'm taking it.
glad you voiced your opinion while considering the facts. And yea, I feel like a vaccine would be more a tool for survival than it would a solution to the appocolypse.
No they'll still kill you if they bite you. You just won't turn anymore. Remember, "it's not the bite that does it." You'll still most likely die from the infection.
yea good point. Even if the walker bite didnt infect you (though given their teeth now I have a feeling thats highly unlikely) the open wound will undoubtadley get infected.
Unless it isn't a case of komodo dragon mouth and when they bite you it's a fecking great loading dose of the active viral (or prional, or whatever?) agent transmitted, sending the immune system into overdrive killing the individual, a la the cytokine storm situation.
A vaccine could work in this scenario, if it works with the 'dormant' (or weakened) and 'active' forms of the infection.
However, dead mouths are still dirty as sin, and the likelihood of sepsis from a bite wound is still pretty likely but it could be survivable, unlike the active agent scenario (w/out a vaccine).
I'm talking out of my ass, but it's so much fun.
This is exactly what I was thinking, was just too lazy to articulate it. The worst part of the walking dead is the fact that the zombies will always win because any people that manage to survive will only do so for so long before biting the bullet and turning anyways.
If everyone alive was cured of that aspect, they could focus on out-surviving the zombies and it would break the hopeless cycle that all walking dead characters have to deal with. People could start towns again without the fear of the elderly dying in their sleep and starting another outbreak, humanity could push through the apocalypse, no?
I'm not saying that a cure is plausible, but if one did exist it definitely wouldn't be worthless lol.
The thread title is "A vaccine/cure is worthless"
so I was just going off that.
i meant that in terms of solving the apocolypse
Hey, thanks for trying to not be an asshole while specifically calling me out
Because you insulted me saying things about "people in my state of mind". Im talking about vaccine or cure in the FICTIONAL world of the walking dead. Not reality. You arent exactly the nicest guy either, now im sorry for calling you out, but I dont appreciate being treated like i have no hope for humanity.
but your right, calling you out wasnt cool. im sorry.
i know the feeling, we cool?