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outer_divide2012-12-28 05:42 pm
damn_it_jim) wrote in outer_divide2012-12-28 05:42 pm
[Audio: Stop Plaguing Him, People] Monday, Week 22
This is Dr. McCoy.
No thanks to our charming neighbours behind the blue dome, we have both a treatment and a preventative vaccine for both stages of the plague, so put any plans to torch any more of the damned city on hold.
If you're new around these parts and/or you haven't been exposed or infected, come to the hospital and we'll vaccinate you.
If you or anyone you know is sick with the second stage, come to the hospital and we'll dispense the treatment for it. First stage too, but if you don't remember that we've been able to treat that one for some weeks now, you should arrange for a hearing and memory test while you're at it.
On the subject of tests, if you've been around enough that you reasonably should've gotten sick, come to the hospital. We'll vaccinate you, but we'll also want to screen your blood to make sure that you aren't an asymptomatic carrier -- we've found a few of them so far. If that's the case, then you're a walking, talking vector to reinfect people until we can give you a course of drugs to clear the bug from your system. This isn't something to be ashamed of, it's just something that you need to get sorted out. Don't be an idiot out of some sense of misbegotten pride or guilt or whatever screw's come loose.
McCoy out.
No thanks to our charming neighbours behind the blue dome, we have both a treatment and a preventative vaccine for both stages of the plague, so put any plans to torch any more of the damned city on hold.
If you're new around these parts and/or you haven't been exposed or infected, come to the hospital and we'll vaccinate you.
If you or anyone you know is sick with the second stage, come to the hospital and we'll dispense the treatment for it. First stage too, but if you don't remember that we've been able to treat that one for some weeks now, you should arrange for a hearing and memory test while you're at it.
On the subject of tests, if you've been around enough that you reasonably should've gotten sick, come to the hospital. We'll vaccinate you, but we'll also want to screen your blood to make sure that you aren't an asymptomatic carrier -- we've found a few of them so far. If that's the case, then you're a walking, talking vector to reinfect people until we can give you a course of drugs to clear the bug from your system. This isn't something to be ashamed of, it's just something that you need to get sorted out. Don't be an idiot out of some sense of misbegotten pride or guilt or whatever screw's come loose.
McCoy out.
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[And doesn't Bones sound just chipper at that thought. The dour expression is somehow more entrenched for a moment.]
Still, it'll help speed some recoveries, at least.
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Better to keep 'let the dead bury the dead' in the realm of literature. If you want to help with vaccinations, you're more than welcome, but your talents are wasted on funeral pyres. The ship's had a power drain, I hear, and if those pods are the best life support we've got, then that's where you should focus, Dr. Banner.