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| Kane1389 said:
When you really think about it, a vaccine wouldnt really change much. First off, at best, the cure would only cure the runners or the people in incubation. Clickers, stalkers and bloaters are beyond help since the fungus has already has grown outside their brain and on their body. Second off, most of non-infected are marauders, looters and bandits killing each other for supplies with no regard for human life. Without any kind of goverment and law enforcment, the society is still pretty much fucked, with or without the fungus. Even if we disregard that, its doubtful the fireflies would have the means to distribute the cure properly since both the bandits and the goverment military are against them. So really, Joel didnt screw humanity THAT much |
Vaccines work in real life without curing those already afflicted; for example, the polio vaccine doesn't give someone crippled by it the use of their legs back, but it stops more people from suffering the same fate. The trick is to break the chain of transmission.
In real life cordiceps eventually kills its hosts, and even if not here, people don't live forever, so without the ability to expand their numbers the infected population would slowly die out. Once they were gone, society could begin to rebuild. It was the pressure of the infected threat, after all, that kept civilization fractured in the world of TLOU.
Was it a guarantee of salvation? No. But it was a promising chance.
