I just wanna say that I appreciate the hell out of you.

Pharma companies are basing pricing for these one-time-in-a-life-dose drugs on supply and demand principles. There will never be high demand for these drugs because the conditions are so rare. And only needing to be dosed once for a complete lifetime cure means that there is no recurrent payment happening the way you would have with a drug that needed to be dosed repeatedly over a lifetime.

You’ll hear all the usual excuses about “muh R&D costs 😭😭” but the truth is they’re pricing it this way because they can. Because somewhere in the bible of capitalism, this is the way things work.

(R&D costs are just an excuse for greed: https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-fall-2018/pharma-lies-people-die-myth-busting-fact-sheet-on-medicine-development-and-pricing/)

Star Trek. It’s a whole plotline with O’Brien

Better in 50 years than never

I’m on book 8, and if you can believe it gets even better. I’m a little speechless about it.

Homeopathic products contain zero dose of active ingredient, not even a microdose

Generalized convulsions are a pretty well-established effect of nitrogen toxicity.

“In the few experiments in which nitrogen was breathed for 17–20 sec unconsciousness supervened and was accompanied on most occasions by a generalized convulsion.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation

Known in the scuba diving world as “getting narced” (nitrogen narcosis)

https://www.scuba.com/blog/dealing-nitrogen-narcosis-2/

“In severe cases, divers have been known to experience convulsions, possibly causing loss of consciousness in extreme cases.”