Want to get sick? This tissue will help!
Last updated on: 28 January,2019 10:02 pm
According to the company, one should be able to fall sick on their own terms.
(Web Desk) – Will you pay for getting sick?
If yes, then be ready as a Los Angeles-based startup ‘Vaev’ is selling used tissues for $79.99 or Rs 11,129.
According to the company, one should be able to fall sick on their own terms.
"We believe using a tissue that carries a human sneeze is safer than needles or pills. This isn’t like any tissue you’ve used before, but we love using them, and you will too," read a line in Vaev’s official website.
The tissue is "specially treated with organic ingredients, is non-prescription, and works hand in hand with the human body to keep your immune system feeling like your immune system."
The point is if the claims of the company are really true. Well! Maybe not.
According to a professor of microbiology and environmental sciences at the University of Arizona who studies how diseases spread, “There’s a lot of things wrong with that.”
“There are more than 200 types of rhinoviruses, so you’re going to have to shove about 200 tissues up your nose each time to get a different one.”
Exposing yourself to one cold might offer you some future protection against that strain. “But getting inoculated from one doesn’t protect you against all the others.” That’s why we’ve never had a vaccine for the common cold, he says. “How do you make a vaccine against 200 different viruses?”
The tissue comes in a white box, inside which the crumpled tissues are sealed in a dish with gold tape.