Intergalactic Summit

Now that the factions can see a glimpse of hope on the horizon, i hope they vaccinate people, move them to a secure location (the keepstar if needed), burn everything on the previous locations (and the pit) and lock them at the secure location until everything is tested out.

The Caldari citizens would collaborate with this without a doubt, i just don´t know about the other factions.

But again, capsuleers are the kind of people that goes around exploring unknown space and steal implants from dead corpses and plug them in without much questioning. So it can go either way.

No, it's not. An entire city is not a controlled environment for testing. There are so many factors you cannot isolate to even quantify involved in a city's environment that it cannot serve as a primary testing ground. Nor do you want to test the treatment simultaneously on children and on adults in the same testing area.

As for being monitored... how? Proper testing would involve keeping specific individuals under consistent observation. I'm sorry, but you're not going to tell me that every man, woman, and child in there is wearing monitors to track heartbeat, metabolic rate, kidney function, brain activity... nope. Not happening. Especially not when nobody's been going in. And if you don't have that, you don't have the data you need.

That's not a testing ground. It's a cemetary.

Well ... I'm one of those people, so, again, maybe my view is a little biased. I'm making periodic visits to medical to get my status checked. Still no sign of infection so far.

(Again: not properly a vaccine, I don't think.)

I expect research is ongoing.

You seem awfully confident that disaster not only might, but will follow if the cure isn't properly tested. Aside from resurgent plague, I'm having a little trouble seeing how the cure could be worse than the disease here. The disease, after all, is legendarily lethal and has a containment-breaching feature we still don't understand.

There was a huge pressure from all the 4 groups to take advantage from the situation, now that they´re going to start from the same point (the research data being shared), i´m counting on more "proper procedure time" since they don´t have to be at each others neck and escalate the stuff since it´s out in the open.

That includes: People going into the quarantine zones to do things. Like they already started

As for the "cure", i hope that Gallente and Minmatar legislators regulate the actions of Poteque and Eifyr, limiting the vaccines to the quarantine zones like announced.

Because it *will* follow. You cannot say that everyone's going to get Kyonoke, but you can say that people will be taking the vaccine as prevention. If that vaccine is unsafe due to improper testing, you just end up killing more people than Kyonoke would had.

Also, if you recognise your bias, FIX IT instead of using it to justify everything you are going to say.

No, they've already started preparing to go in there. And again: this is an entire city we're talking about. A team of half a dozen scientists going in and out through rigorous decontamination isn't even close to the same as sending in the equipment to monitor an entire city's vitals.

Personally, I'm kinda expecting to see the treatment procedures in that city cause riots, simply because nobody is going to want to be the guy who gets told 'Your kid who's showing Stage 2 symptoms has to wait four more days, there's six million people ahead of you on line'. Good luck getting that administered to everyone without a significant incident.



Minmatar whats?

Chiefs. You mean the Chiefs. There's seven of them. That's how they get **** actually done. Yes, there's an advisory body that likes to act like a legislature, but nobody cares about, or pays attention to, them.

And... Eifyr's been pretty much linked to every single illegal and black-market booster and drug cocktail trade ring in the cluster at one point or another. Heck, it's in the official company profile! Good luck keeping them from profiting off of this on the black market.

Edit to add: Also, you should probably re-read the announcement you claim says the treatment's being limited to the quarantine zones. It says nothing about limiting it, only that it's already going to two of the quarantine zones, and they expect it will be rolled out to the others 'as soon as possible'. Nothing in there whatsoever about 'it's not going to be made available to all you panicked consumers screaming 'TAKE MY MONEY BUT SAVE MY BABY' out there.!'

Mr. Egivand, I am, or was, almost certainly infected. I'd been in a contagion-ridden section of the station for days, spoke closely with the primary source of the infection twice, and attended briefings he was present at six times.

He had a nasty cough.

So I was probably in the incubation period when I got dosed with the hopefully-cure the day before yesterday, and I've been preparing a log for my backup ever since I arrived here in expectation that there was a good chance I wouldn't survive.

Somewhere along the line my willingness to treat death as a casual thing kind of wore down, though. It's not like I haven't faced what I thought were non-survivable situations before, but ... this is different, somehow. I guess, before, at least I could fight back, even if it was hopeless.

This time....

I'm afraid. I'm really scared. And I don't know what to do about it.

(To make matters worse, I don't even think I'm probably going to die unless it's by my own hand. The cure's ... strange. I don't really get the sense that it's going to fail in any ordinary way. It might fail in some extraordinary way, though.)

I do not treat death as a casual thing, I treat it as an inevitability. One day, I am going to lose this clone, outside the pod, despite every precaution and contingency. I can fight as much as I want, but I *will* lose the fight one day. Make peace with this fact and be prepared to face it when the time comes.

To fear is human. To respond with rather than against fear is animal.

You forgot about the previous breaches into Kyonoke Pit and those vessels being unaccounted for. There are no guarantees that Kyonoke will not resurface.

Better sort this mess this time than to wait for the bloody thing to show up again. Do you prefer to double the total death toll of the Kyonoke disease, because we do not already have a proper solution the next time it showed up, or fix the mess within the year so that we have the means to combat the disease properly the next time it turned up?