Screwdriver wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:52 am
Personally I would rather watch the lights gradually dim and die peacefully huddled around a fireplace in some Mad Max post apocalypse (from whatever cause). I'd rather that than die struggling to breath while choking on my own lung tissue because some fucking idiot decided it was somehow a good idea to manufacture a super deadly virus for "research".
M's father died last year from mesothelioma, caused by exposure to asbestos 50 years previously. Ironically the exposure was at a hospital where he was doing building work. Prior to that and pretty much at that time asbestos was the wonder stuff. He died, struggling for breath . . .
There are going to be good reasons for some research or the use of dangerous substances just as some will give you good reasons for eating red meat and cheese or smoking cigarettes. They can all be hazardous to health. Iirc, 70,000+ people die every year from smoking related illnesses. Covid didn't come close to those numbers.
You'll probably die from cancer or heart disease like most people nowadays. Or old age although getting there can be a struggle in itself.
