Technology

Antivaxxers now pro-abortion to avoid forced ultrasound vaccinations.

While this is awesome, I can already imagine anti-vaxxers are now deathly afraid of ultrasounds lol

I think that's the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

In other news, conservatives have introduced a bill to outlaw ultrasound machines.

Great, a new thing for the lunatics to rant about.

And here come the conspiracy theories...

Hyposprays are finally here!!!!!

I should patent a long range dart gun for vaccinating morons.

History proves we do the cheapest, easiest, and fastest. So allow me to shit all over this idea...

• This is slow at 1.5 mins vs a needle takes about 5 secs.
• Takes skill to operate an ultrasound machine and probably training to get a consistent dose vs pull needle to this line and jab in arm to know you got it all in there.
• Every Rite Aid and CVS would need an ultrasound machine vs here are these cheap disposable needles that require no power or maintenance.

Sure they might develop it faster or make a new more portable thing. But that's going to take a long long time when no one gives a shit to invest money in a new thing when needles work.

We are one step closer to hypo sprays from Star Trek. I don't like needles so this will be really neat to see in mass adoption.

I'm diabetic. This would be awesome!!

Sitting for a minute and a half, not including prep and cleanup, or just getting stabbed a little. shrug

Edit: To save the next half dozen people exclaiming "needles!" the trouble. I would refine my point to, "great to have the option but I imagine it as being more of a fallback than the beginning of a new era".

few inches closer to Star Trek

I knew it, the govment are poisoning us with their 5G waves!

If they can do this for insulin which sounds like it's the same this is a game changer

Sweet, now they can charge me $1k for a shot and not use a needle.

Last time I got an ultrasound the hospital charged me $2k. Wanted to confirm nothing was wrong with my kidneys. Turns out I was all good, but now I have an expensive bill to deal with...

I guess it's interesting but this seems to have minimal use case. For those with reactions to injections and such it's useful, but it seems much easier to use a needle in most cases. Also that article claims that it "doesn't damage the skin", but I don't see why a vaccine would cause any meaningful damage to the skin in the first place.

Edit: Okay I'm seeing now how this would be useful for more frequent injections like insulin and such if it can be used like that.

Vaccines just vibing their way into your body

That's how the five gee gets ya!

So.... 5G?

MY body, MY ultrasound

Neat. I wonder if my grandchildren will see that technology in use, because I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime.

I had a friend who would have severe reactions to injections. He wasn't afraid of needles, but his body would have weird reactions lasting about a week after having an injection. It was really problematic, so he tried to avoid them whenever possible. All this to say, I bet he'd be excited if something like this were made available to him.