Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/start-up-injects-old-people-wi.html
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Paging ‘Countess Bathory…’
Cool. The ultra rich will be acting as canaries in a coal mine for the rest of us on emerging diseases that we don’t even know how to test for yet.
Who in the actual fuck buys quack medical treatments from someone called ‘Conboy’? Nominative determinism people! Sheesh.
Can I get blood from someone on their birthday and still get a free Denny’s breakfast ? Howsaboutjustlikeonepancake ?
I was going to post something similar, but Iooked back over it and the Conboys are being the voice of reason here.
It’s a damn shame, though. That would have been funny.
They are? Fuck. Now I’m not funny. Dammit.
All blood is young.
Anyone paying for this “service” is ignorant enough that I would normally have no problem with a huckster hoovering cash out of their pockets, but it seems like a viable path to Patient Zero.
So don’t do this, old farts.
That Silicon Valley gag based on the vampiric Libertarian sugar daddy of the alt-right, Peter Thiel:
Just to give you an idea of the kind of person who takes this “treatment”.
Apparently Elizabeth Báthory was ahead of the curve.
So - less old farts than middle aged farts.
But farts just the same.
It appears that the preliminary study upon which this is based may be a lot less exciting than initially portrayed. Lesson: Never make life choices based on preliminary studies!
Came here to say this. Thanks.