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Zombies for Health Care Reform, originally uploaded by The Searcher.

The zombie plague was unexpected.

A cure was quickly found, but just as quickly discarded, over limited profit concerns. Attention shifted instead to a daily-dose vaccine, much less effective than a cure, but favored for the open-ended revenue streams. The vaccine went into production within weeks of the first infestation. Projections showed if deployed strategically across a global grid, a virus firewall could be erected, effectively isolating and starving the existing pockets of zombies and halting the spread. The drug companies, however, took a different approach. They made available only limited quantities of vaccine to artificially inflate demand, and then set a price that only the very wealthy could afford. It was a wildly successful product launch, with record profits.

But as a result, the zombies spread.

Unwilling to bend on price, the drug companies found themselves short staffed, as most of their own scientists and production workers couldn't afford the vaccine. The resulting shortfall in production had little effect on sales, surprisingly. As it turned out the drug makers failed to take into account the one simple truth about zombies.

There was no cure for being eaten.


larger one here.

# posted by Derek Chatwood @ 4:20 PM