What would a cure realistically have done anyway...

what would a cure realistically have done anyway? you cant turn back the mushroom people in to humans and it seems like they usually kill their prey. of the last surviving humans is the number of people getting a bite but escaping a fatal attack significant enough that a cure is even needed? Beyond that specific application I don't see how it can benefit humanity. Better to focus on killing the infected as efficiently as possible and try to reclaim Earth.

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TLOU just makes no sense, the more you think about it the dumber it gets

it wasn't a cure, it was a vaccine.
that doesn't help everyone who already has it.

how does being vaccinated help you survive a clicker eating your neck apart?

by beating the shit out of the clicker who is a severely weakened human and not getting infected in the process thanks to your immunity

>it was a vaccine
Vaccines are for viruses specifically.

They're using simplified language for the audience to understand you pedantic sperg

I would assume that protection from the billions and billions of infectious spores would be an immense asset when it comes to the logistics of clearing out rubble and resettling areas.

>what would a cure realistically have done anyway?
Vaccine, and nothing much.
It would allow survival of people that were bitten or breathed in spores.
Nothing less nothing more.

There are still billions of infected out that people need to deal with, there's still famine and resource shortage and other diseases.
There are still assholes that would murder you because you have nicer shoes then they do.
Vaccine would be marginally helpful but until someone comes up with a plan that would deal with all the roaming 'zombies' it's mostly useless.

This was a parasitic fungus, why not use fungicide to exterminate the fungus ?

apparently if you want to be immune from the fungus you just have to an animal. So I guess wear a fursuit and yiff it up?

>billions and billions of infectious spores
TLOU spores are well behaved spores.
They always stay in their designated areas, never get blown away far so randoms without masks 20 miles away turn without warning.

>you just have to an animal.
But TLOU 1 had a pair of wild joggers and the young one still got infected.

>Vaccines are for viruses specifically.
lol what. Vaccines are anything that preps somebody's own immune system to fight off any sort of bad foreign substance. There are vaccines for bacterial diseases not just viral, and a prototype vaccine for some parasite diseases like malaria as well (though low efficiency). There has even been research on trying to vaccinate against certain toxins and fungi, though parasites and fungi are vastly more complex since they're vastly more complex organisms.
>the absolute state of amerilard education
FFS

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>severely weakened human
>will overpower you 100% of the time if you try to engage them without a gun

just ignore him, he's clearly willing to say anything to feel like he's right

>I would assume that protection from the billions and billions of infectious spores would be an immense asset when it comes to the logistics of clearing out rubble and resettling areas.
Right. And IRL, spores can last a long, LONG time, in fact the entire point of the "spore" form is adaption for survival and dispersal. Spores can last decades no problem.

Without some sort of preventative, if humanity ever builds back up to critical mass it'll just get fucked again. And living off the remnants of high tech civilization won't last indefinitely. It was a reasonable goal.

Oh, I actually wasn't aware of that. I haven't played these games so I thought the world has been mostly wiped out and the survivors are all isolated and living in fear of parasitic spores that are by now nearly ubiquitous thanks to the infected hordes shedding them constantly.

> you cant turn back the mushroom people in to humans and it seems like they usually kill their prey.
No, but a cure or vaccine would bolster people with the knowledge that they could fight the things without worrying about becoming one themselves. That's pretty significant.
>is the number of people getting a bite but escaping a fatal attack significant enough that a cure is even needed? Beyond that specific application I don't see how it can benefit humanity.
Like I said, a cure would prevent spread of the disease to the already dwindling population, which in turn would perhaps give people the resolve to fight them for as long as it takes to win.
>There are still billions of infected
Pulling numbers out of our asses, are we?

Spores wouldn't be as much of an issue which doesn't sound that important.

That was said half jokingly because when you enter 'infected area' with bodies overgrown with fungi fused to walls and air full of spores it's always nicely partitioned from the rest of the map.

You say that like you didn't just Google it faggot

Do they even have zombies in tlou 2? I haven't seen them mentioned anywhere

>Pulling numbers out of our asses, are we?
Whole Earth got infected, couple of people got lucky, rest is dead or zombie.
You can sperg out about exact numbers but overwhelming majority of humanity is fucked and roaming the wilderness searching for a fresh meal.

Are you actually being serious that this isn't something you learned in like middle school biology? Or just picked up in general merely by reading or thinking or paying any attention to what shots your kids get? Holy shit user.

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This is also the reason that "scientific" zombie settings are almost always retarded. TLoU zombies obviously still run on mana magical energy just like most zombie series, yet nobody else gets any magic to play with themselves nor even researches it or gets a chance to. Fucking lame.

This game is so tropical it's not even funny. The infection represents covid and the clickers are the people protesting the closure of the country, it's all white Christians that are infected that's why you go into a synagogue for safety

A fungus obviously couldn't turn humans into zombies but if there were a fungus that could kill humans at a rate shown in game it would be unstoppable. There are a few known fungi that can infect and kill people and they all typically only kill immuno compromised people. Usually people with HIV. The thing is these fungi that can kill people are all over everything all of the time. They just don't make you sick because you have a normal immune system. Fungal spores of all kinds of fungus are all over you and everything you touch all of the time.

Just shoot yourself up with some fungicide bruh

If you have the vaccine and can spread it across the human population, that means no more new infected. A vaccine isn't a panacea, it's a long term investment to avoid the creation of zombies in the future.

You have three groups here
>people who are still alive, on a global scale, the last remainder of humanity
>infected that are still functionally operating and on the prowl
>some number of the population that has died, whether that be from succumbing to the effects of the infection or through non related causes
As long as we don't know hard numbers, or even estimates, it's impossible to know whether or not humanity could do anything about their current predicament, so it's hard to say whether or not a cure or vaccine could have any practical application, or the efficacy of said application, to say nothing of an actual fight against the hordes of infected and the fungal overgrowth that caused it.

Point is, you can't just pull a number out of your ass and run with it like that because you're just making an assumption, which, fair enough, is the best we have. Assuming you're right and the vast majority of the global population became infected and still continue to act as feral beasts, then we could at least begin to have a discussion about the need for a cure.

You're assuming that he has children to vaccinate, or that if he did he would vaccinate them.

Mate, it's the basis of your immune-system. Exposure builds immunity. If you had just a modicum of intelligence you could just connect the dots.

>what would a cure realistically have done anyway?
Without pre-outbreak supply-chains, vital manufacturing infrastructure and distribution networks? The Fireflies gain something that they can use to gain leverage over FEDRA and Jerry Anderson's daughter gains an immunity to CBI before anyone else.

spores nigga

It was a critic towards the cis-white males that perpetuate social injustice in our society. It establishes an analogy to the virus in the game, it can't be cured through a vaccine or any other conventional means, therefore the only solution left is the total annihilation of the patriarchy/infected.

it would be most important currency in the continent

TLOU1 didn't feel as desperate as, lets say, TWD or 28 Days or definitely not L4D. It felt like maybe at least, and I'm pulling this from my ass too, 10% of humans survived? there are more than 5 named communities, some of them being decently sized, in a huge metro area, rural areas are bound to have some too if not more

>As long as we don't know hard numbers, or even estimates,
Did you play through 1 and 2?
Did you see the cities, big and small?
Did you read about the end of several quarantine zones?
How much more do you need to estimate?
Bonus points for remembering character dialog from early TLOU1 about military and how they tried to deal with 'zombie crowds' while they still had almost full power.