I see a whole lot of posting by people who know little to nothing about microbiology and medicine, very arrogantly proclaiming that this will go horribly awry and make life miserable/impossible for us in the future, or that we're upsetting the natural order of things, as if by building cities, cultivating the land and flying over the oceans in huge machines we have not been doing so for quite some time. A retrovirus cure must by nature be very different from an antibiotic, and I doubt KFC's going to start pumping their chickens full of them. Also, where is the umbrage over stem cell research from the people claiming that this bug-killer is the harbinger of the apocalypse?
In his last book, Vonnegut wrote about a doctor who predated Joseph Lister (as in "Listerine"), who himself popularized handwashing before and between surgeries. The doc, who's name I don't recall, noticed that mothers and children were dying during childbirth when the other docs performed the deliveries immediately after coming out of the morgue. For suggesting they clean their hands, that doctor was pushed out of his profession and his country. I think that mindset is what I'm seeing here.
Also, in case anyone is wondering, zombies aren't terraforming and cloning. They're not real and they're not a potential reality.
