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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

UC Davis researcher Michael Payne told the LA Times. "Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense."

I, too, remember when this was more of a bug and not necessarily a feature.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we give these knuckleheads a bit more time they'll reinvent variolation 500 years late.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, but they've got immune systems, you see.

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