The Truth of Zor

Lord Tempest: Lord Akoroth, with all honesty and integrity (i.e. please don’t Google/wiki it), what is the first thing that comes to your mind when I mention “Dr. Salk”

Lord Akoroth: How do you keep entering this court Lord Tempest? Where is that security? Anyway, it sounds like a Pakistani doctor or something. Why is he sulking? No patients? Yuk Yuk…

Lord Tempest: Remember your glorious homage to Steve Jobs the other week? How you were saying that all of us whose lives he changed should remember him?

Lord Akoroth: This will not end well will it? Is that the C+ or dot net fellow that the Lord Zalthor was crying over? Apparently the world ignored him as well…

Lord Tempest: October 28th was Salk’s birthday. He was someone who had an impact on the lives of every single human being in the world. He was the one who discovered the polio vaccine. Do you know why the polio vaccine is almost free?

Lord Akoroth: err…because it’s made in China?

Lord Tempest: It is because he didn’t patent it. When he was told to, he said that profit is not why he did it. He said he had done it for humanity. He wanted the cure to reach every single human being, instead of only the ones who can pay for it. He believed that good health was a right, not a privilege. That decision single-handedly eradicated polio from this world. I wanted to see if people even knew who he was.

Lord Akoroth: Congrats. You got your result.

Lord Tempest: Indeed I did.

Lord Akoroth: Polio vaccination is just not as cool as an iPhone. And we as a species rather be identified with owning an iPhone than a getting a vaccination and we don’t care how idiotic that logic is since logic is not cool man, not cool at all. Mystery solved . Can I get back to my pizza now?

Lord Tempest: I hate you Akoroth.

Lord Akoroth: Excellent. Guards! Throw him out!.

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Lord Agarius: What’s this nonsense?

Lod Akoroth: Lord Tempest in a preachy mood, I suspect mind-altering drugs and horses were involved.

Lord Agarius: It’s because everyone forgot Tempest’s birthday. That is why he suddenly relates to Salk.

Lord Akoroth: Ahhhh.