7,010,681 people worldwide have died from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of April 13, 2024. An estimated 25-30M people didn't die, due to treatments than emerged.
fact: you are the f*ckin' pussy.
Another fact is that another pandemic will happen. Maybe the next one affects the young more than the old, as was the case with H1N1 in 1918. Maybe the recent transmission of H5N1 from birds to cattle to people in Texas and Colorado is a warning.
You're not going to have an approved drug on the shelf for a human infection that doesn't exist yet, since there is no way to run a clinical trial. But you can have half a dozen experimental drugs that work well in cell culture and that are stable, non-toxic, and reach high blood levels when administered to mammals. Then when a local outbreak happens, you can run a small clinical trial and see what works. It's better to thwart the pandemic before it becomes a pandemic, even before it becomes a epidemic, even before it becomes a regional outbreak, and while it is a local curiosity.
But you do you. Spread the ignorance. I'll sign off and try to design improved Machupo entry inhibitors, targeting its envelope protein. Test compound M8 works well but is unstable in plasma. Gotta fix that....
