From: | David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> |
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Subject: | Re: Alzheimers and other diseases |
Date: | Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:09:38 -0600 |
/
/ At 10:37 PM 8/10/98 +0100, you wrote:
/ >And verily, did Erik Jameson hastily scribble thusly...
/ >|Hey, I remember that I believe. If my aging memory holds, did not several
/ >|others take up the challenge also? And does anyone still have a copy of
/ >|the ShadowManiacs song? (written back when that show was new I do believe)
/ >
/ >D'OH!
/ >It's in the FAQ!
/
/ Yeah, well, it's that Part-Timers disease, you know? I had a senior moment
/ there for a bit. And I guess it goes to show I don't have a full copy of
/ the FAQ, just the mini one Adam sends out on occassion (and I've probably
/ several of those).
All three parts will be on their way to your mailbox after this post :)
/ To rescue this from OT and the cruel sledgehammers of Adam and Dvixen, what
/ about Alzheimer's and senility in Shadowrun?
/
/ Do you think that Alzheimer's is cured by 2060?
Maybe. Alzheimer's seems to be some sort of genetic type disease. The
cure might involve identification of the genetic marker at birth and then
correcting it *long* before it'll kick in. Which means that the current
generation will be okay, but people will still have to deal with the
current "old-timers" who have Alzheimer's. Just my two cents.
/ And for that matter, what about other diseases, such as AIDS? Cancer?
A lot of headway is being made on AIDS and Cancer. IMHO, yes.
/ If they have been cured, have other diseases (other than VITAS) sprung up
/ in their place, as diseases seemingly tend to do?
That's pretty much depends on one's imagination :)
I just read an article today about undernourished kids in Africa
suffering from a form of gangrene that basically eats a hole in their
face. It starts small on the lip, roof of the mouth, cheek, jaw line,
and then quickly devours a significant portion of soft tissue (goodbye
nose and upper mouth). The bodies defenses kick in and the diseased
flesh falls off, leaving a big hole. Bone tissue in the center of the
mess (the upper jaw) goes too.
If it starts in someplace like the forehead it just about strips the
flesh down to the bone.
It isn't pretty, and creates all sorts of health problems which finish
off the kid in short order if it's not attended to, which it ussualy
isn't.
In SR something like this might exist which is much quicker and reaches
accross social classes (i.e., it doesn't care if you're healthy or
not).
A good place to start looking for diseases is third world countries
which get hit by diseases and illnesses which don't exist in first
world countries.
/ I've got some thoughts on my own (big suprise, right) but I'd like to see
/ what others have to say first.
Watcha got?
/ Who thinks the list is suprisingly quiet with GenCon now over...must be the
/ calm before the storm... ;-(
It looks like they're all catching up on sleep :)
-David
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