I am guessing not,
so why would you pay $79.99 for one? Vaev bills itself a “wellness brand” although technically
it’s helping people get sick by selling them tissues that complete strangers
sick with the cold have allegedly sneezed into, the customers apparently are the “open-minded people” who appreciate the
luxury of being able to get sick “on their own terms”, Vaev founder Oliver
Niessen, 34, claims that these expensive used tissues should be viewed as
alternatives to conventional medicine, in that they allow you to purposely
catch a cold whenever you want, in order to decrease the risk of catching that
same cold at a later date, it’s basically all about choice and getting “sick on
your own terms”,
“The simple idea is you choose now to get sick, with the idea
in mind that you won’t get sick with that same cold … later,” Niessen
told TIME Magazine, “That kind of freedom, that kind of luxury
to choose—I mean, we customize everything in our lives and we have everything
the way that we want it, so why not approach sickness that way as well?” but why would anyone want to get sick at any time? Well, Niessen
offers a very simple example: say you’re getting ready to go on vacation and
want to minimize the risk of a cold ruining your fun, You use a
sneeze-contaminated Vaev tissue and get sick now rather than on vacation.
so how do Vaev tissues get contaminated? Well, Niessen claims
his company has about 10 go-to sneezers, some of which it recruited
online, they sneeze into a batch of regular tissues, send them back to the
company, which then packages them in sealed petri dishes and mails them to
customers, apparently the company checks in with them regularly to check if
any of them are sick, and most of the time at least one of them is, but when
they’re all healthy, it can literally halt production, still, he claims having
a larger “stable” of sneezers is tough for a startup, so for now 10 is the
perfect number, well thanks, but no thanks, but who knows,
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