Thursday 24 January 2019

Would You Use A Tissue A Complete Strange Has Sneezed Into?

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, founder Oliver Niessen and the company could be on track to making millions, of people sick! photographs from Vaev.



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