Being one who enjoys being alive, I am grateful for modern medicine, including vaccines, especially vaccines against very deadly diseases such as polio and pneumococcal pneumonia to name but two of the several.
However having said that, it appears to me that although Covid was / is a real flu bug, nonetheless the whole Covid thing was extremely over blown.
To this day, I still sometimes see people wearing a surgical mask here and there around Anchorage.
I presume these people are suffering mental illness of one description or another.
I have even seen a person wearing one while driving their car on the highway, with no passenger/s in there with the masked driver.
Back on topic, fortunately no loved ones except one uncle of mine has ever been bitten by a poison snake and he survived (via rapid application of antivenin).
He was bitten on the foot by a copperhead (poison snake, all too common in some parts of N. America).
Myself and my wife have so far not been bitten by any venomous serpent.
But my wife and myself have encountered quite a few assorted ones during our travels through N. America, Central America, South America and two African countries so far.
The latest antivenin advancement mentioned by the OP is very encouraging.
We are happy to learn of it’s potential.
