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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8963492" data-attributes="member: 11760">Synthesizing a cure -- if there even is a cure, which seems extremely optimistic (we know how HIV works and it's taken decades to get as close as we have to a vaccine, with many more resources poured into it than they can in Last of US , even counting the dismal initial efforts in fighting AIDS in the 1980s) -- requires a lot more than what we see in and around that hospital. It's an incredibly fragile and resource-intensive process, including needing a ton of highly trained human beings, most of which have been eaten long before Joel starts shooting the remaining ones.Let's pretend there are still one million people living in what used to be the United States. Assuming there is a cure and that they can synthesize it, at best, they can maybe cure the survivors Salt Lake City. Which functionally makes them about as well off as the folks in Wyoming, since they can still die to starvation, raiders or getting attacked by infected.It will take decades, maybe longer, to build up the infrastructure needed to create the resources for more antidote than than that. (And what Ellie has in her body is a vaccine, which may or may not work as a cure -- it didn't when she tried it in her lo-fi way.)I wouldn't give the folks in Wyoming great odds of being around in decades, and they're not located on a major highway across a landscape that's clear most of the year. People won't stop coming to Salt Lake City, which just increases the odds that it'll eventually be overrun.The choice isn't between killing Ellie and a cure. It's a choice between killing Ellie and a remote possibility of a cure.</blockquote>

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