"Muddy Water"

            Explosive diarrhea, rushing everywhere, spraying everything inside the toilet, unable to scrape it off, because it is impossible to get off the toilet, because of the severe diarrhea. Hopefully none of you readers were eating anything during that description, but I am pretty sure you will all be glad to learn that thanks to some of these scientists, it may just be a thing of the past. I do not know how many of you know what causes diarrhea, but it is actually a virus called Norovirus, how creative right, and now have developed a mostly effective vaccine against it.

            As much as people think that water coming out of one’s rear end in spams is disgusting, it is not too extreme or severe, although it is given that 800 people die per year and is probably very uncomfortable for people, there are many more long term projects that would reap better rewards overall. These would only be short term rewards, it is very hard to imagine any long term rewards. Given that we could save 800 people a year, and not trying to sound harsh or anything, but the world as a whole could easily replace that many people in a matter of minutes, and that just shows that some people may need to get a hobby to do, and no Patrick, mayonnaise is not a hobby.

            I do see the short term goal that this provides which could possibly lead to a longer term goal. Many people obtain this virus on cruises, and since many people are congested together, the virus would spread relatively quickly. This would cause many people to become upset and thus hurt the cruise ship business, so if these people were to sell their vaccine to the cruise ship owners who could distribute them, or sell them to hospitals, where worried people could obtain them, for a small fee of course.

            This vaccine does reduce most of the virus’s effects, but if anyone has learned anything about the nature of viruses, is that they are extremely quick to adapt to whatever method is employed against them, and will probably mutate into just a slightly different form than a previous one to avoid a person’s immunity against them. Therefore, like many other vaccines, and depending on how quickly this virus adapts to the vaccine, it may be reconsidered whether the monetary value of the result was worth the cash value put in to the vaccine.