There’s a report out of the U.K. that scientists are infecting monkeys with the coronavirus. It’s part of some attempt to find a vaccine.
An experimental antiviral vaccine called remdesivir was found to cure rhesus macaques infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
More than 2,400 have been infected with the strain of the virus, which the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control estimate has killed 910 humans.
Now, you already know that it is the official position of IMAO that monkeys are evil. Just so there’s no misunderstanding, we also think that deadly virus infected monkeys are evil, but also deadly. Because they’re virus infected.
Of course, there’s absolutely nothing that could possibly go wrong by taking the most deadly virus in 100 years and infecting a bunch of monkeys with it.
Didn’t we see a movie like this? Didn’t we see several? I’m thinking those U.K. scientists need to watch more old TV movies.
Or am I wrong? Is this a perfectly safe thing to do? What do you think? Could anything possibly go wrong here?
Don’t worry, they only infected a dozen.
You gotta start somewhere…
I dunno, maybe they’re trying to stop a Planet of the Apes scenario.
As long as no PETA type group tries to liberate the monkeys (oops, sorry, I mean EVIL virus monkeys) we should be okay.
Which makes me realize they should infect PETA and ANTIFA types before they start human trials.
Just curious, does IMAO’s disdain for monkeys extend to Mike, Mickey, Pete, and Davey?
Also, apropos of nothing, but coming to mind while writing that previous question, does IMAO have an official position on the Oxford comma?
Yes.
I don’t think that’s a position I can accommodate.
Well, there was talk of this one.
I have no idea how that is even possible outside of anime.
The Oxford comma rules!
We don’t like monkeys, hippies, and Oxford commas.
If we ever get to Corona-infected spacemonkeys, it’s game over.
If I ever see a report like this then I’ll get concerned: There’s a report out of China that scientists are infecting Uyghurs with the coronavirus. It’s part of some attempt to find a vaccine, and re-educate them.
There used to be a card game called Ebola Monkey Hunt. I never played it but maybe it needs to be updated.
“They’re intelligent. They have a strong survival instinct. They use tools, and can climb to evade capture. Let’s juice ’em up, boys, and see what happens!”
Relax, everybody.
It’s SCIENTISTS infecting those monkeys, and they have assured us that the science is settled!!!
And just as soon as they’re done, they’ll all go back to their day jobs designing Iowa caucus vote tabulation apps.
What could possibly go wrong?
According to the scientists at Penn State, those monkeys are contributing to global worming!
That’s what could go wrong!
Now go and read the news reports that some Chinese scientist picked up a million dollars selling leftover lab animals to the live animal market and go hmmm.
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