See I think they absolutely were, because I do think it's thematically richer to treat the Fireflies as just another broken grief response.
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Jerry is going to die someday sooner or later, all that equipment is going to break down and go bad, and you can't just trust that after 200 years or whatever society will magically invent all the tools you need to synthesize a vaccine again
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Strong disagree. And in any case, any vaccine? Will literally take *generations* to distribute. If the Fireflies do it at all. Instead of, oh, I don't know, using their immunity to rise to political dominance.
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Having some class of people who is immune greatly increases the possibility there will be human beings at all within a few generations, whether or not they become a tyrannical ruling class
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The first two paragraphs of this post are extradiagetically true which kinda sucks
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