Non-science questions are allowed! Post-fic questions, however, I'm kind of waffly about. I don't like saying, "This is what happened after the story!" definitively, because...I don't know, I wasn't there! :P Also, some elements of this might pop up in the epilogue and I don't wish to contradict myself or anything, lol.
However, I can offer up what I think would probably happen! Dixing does still have areas that haven't really been affected, so I imagine that's where mass production would be set up. They can try to hold that over Haixing's heads, but there is going to be contagion, so they can't really contain it. They could maybe engineer a non-contagious version (and maybe someone should?) but that would take a while, and they can't stop vaccinating in the meantime. That's not to say there won't be problems. Haixing has a ROUGH road ahead of it, and things are going to be politically ugly. But I do think the contagion aspect + the prevailing desire not to have zombies in your own country or knocking on your border will pave the way for the vaccine making it to the population.
As for the distribution, that's the primary thing Haixing and Dixing will want to expend resources on, so I guess they're gonna get that done by hook or by crook. In areas that are still populous, that probably amounts to setting up stations for rapid distribution and getting the word out. In many parts of Haixing, it won't be that simple anymore, and immunization is going to have to be a part of organized evacuation/cleanup/zombie-killing work. (The fact that immunization is transmissible will lead to better outcomes, although it'll probably also lead to doses being wasted on people who are already immune at some point.)
Anyway, that's just the vague image I have in my head of how immunization would happen. Hope it was interesting or helpful!
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Date: 2020-03-02 08:52 pm (UTC)However, I can offer up what I think would probably happen! Dixing does still have areas that haven't really been affected, so I imagine that's where mass production would be set up. They can try to hold that over Haixing's heads, but there is going to be contagion, so they can't really contain it. They could maybe engineer a non-contagious version (and maybe someone should?) but that would take a while, and they can't stop vaccinating in the meantime. That's not to say there won't be problems. Haixing has a ROUGH road ahead of it, and things are going to be politically ugly. But I do think the contagion aspect + the prevailing desire not to have zombies in your own country or knocking on your border will pave the way for the vaccine making it to the population.
As for the distribution, that's the primary thing Haixing and Dixing will want to expend resources on, so I guess they're gonna get that done by hook or by crook. In areas that are still populous, that probably amounts to setting up stations for rapid distribution and getting the word out. In many parts of Haixing, it won't be that simple anymore, and immunization is going to have to be a part of organized evacuation/cleanup/zombie-killing work. (The fact that immunization is transmissible will lead to better outcomes, although it'll probably also lead to doses being wasted on people who are already immune at some point.)
Anyway, that's just the vague image I have in my head of how immunization would happen. Hope it was interesting or helpful!