Wirepedia: The Black Rot

May 23, 2016 Drugs & Wires 13 Comments

13 Comments

Wow. This was both very scary and interesting to read…

Did this create a large market for prosthetics, or the other way round?

This is the right question

Depends on how much attention you pay to the conspiracy theorists in alterna-1995.
– Io

This universe’s version of HIV/AIDS?

Oh, HIV is still around here, too. The ’80s were a pretty bleak time for humanity in the D&W-verse.
– Io

I well be seeing that poor guy in my nightmares

Is there a vaccine? The President don’t have the rot. Ms. Billionaire Miriam Hope-Fokker don’t got it. I notice /you/ don’t got it.

By ’95, the spread of the disease has been mostly contained. (At least in the industrialized world; elsewhere, things are still pretty ugly.) There are treatments, but they’re brutally expensive, pretty debilitating, and a ways off from 100% effectiveness.
– Io