Pandemic

[Quigly]

Re: Pandemic

FFR contest. Sudden death style.

[shad0wlord]

Re: Pandemic

In the opening you imply billions of people are still alive. This leads me to ask the state of which this situation occurs... So what would be the estimated death rate of the illness and how what percent on the world would be infected and is that percentage rising/falling?

With "billions" still alive I would not have much of a concern, possibly just giving vaccines to those most highly at risk in infected areas. I doubt certain professions or demographics would be harmed too much with much of the human population still alive, at least outside of geography. However if say all those who got the disease died and so hundreds of millions have died as a result, then there would be a concern. However i'm fairly certain isolation would be more preferred then vaccines at that point.

[devonin]

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Inbred, mutated children abound.

That sounds great.

Just as a minor thing, the primary issue with incest as a means of reproduction up until the very very long term isn't that you just create freak mutant babies. Animals inbreed -constantly- and you very rarely get genetic freaks.

The thing that makes inbreeding tenuous even in the short term is that inbreeding makes recessive traits more likely to come up, so if you have something serious or negative as a recessive trait genetically, you're more likely to see that characteristic come out from inbred children.

But if you don't have a genetic history of any really bad conditions, the actual genetic consequences of a few generations of inbreeding would actually be pretty minor.

Mind you, ugh, gross. But still.

[FallenXxRaven]

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Necros, Crashfan - You both were saying what I thought. This is going to make me sound like an ass for sure, but were overpopulated, and if one or two billion people die it may just be a good thing. And if this happened we could take out all the unwanted traits in humans(I hear a banjo!!!! =P) and in effect, create kind of a superhuman race, with only the best traits and qualities... And now that I read that I just sounded like Adolf Hitler with the Aryan race didnt I? o.o

[shad0wlord]

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Necros, Crashfan - You both were saying what I thought. This is going to make me sound like an ass for sure, but were overpopulated, and if one or two billion people die it may just be a good thing. And if this happened we could take out all the unwanted traits in humans(I hear a banjo!!!! =P) and in effect, create kind of a superhuman race, with only the best traits and qualities... And now that I read that I just sounded like Adolf Hitler with the Aryan race didnt I? o.o

However the situation does not state what nations may be hit the hardest. What if 3rd world nations were effected the least, while areas such at North America and Europe were devastated, with the a large majority of the population left alive being very poor and uneducated?

[speeddemon]

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However the situation does not state what nations may be hit the hardest. What if 3rd world nations were effected the least, while areas such at North America and Europe were devastated, with the a large majority of the population left alive being very poor and uneducated?

Isolated areas would either be untouched or nobody would know. The known cases in 3rd world countries would seem worse because more people would be dying. They wouldn't be able to slow the spread or begin to give them any amount of extra time to live, what with the terrible medical technology. The more urban areas would have it spread faster amongst them. Assume that it's spread nearly everywhere in the world, with a few exceptions (maybe some natives in the Australian outback or some such group). It wouldn't show any uncommon symptoms, it would be one of those annoying diseases that are easy to write off as something else that isn't fatal. To answer your previous questions the death rate would be pretty high, like 90%, and the disease is still on the rise. And yes, billions are still alive, but the rate at which it spreads, and the speed it kills with (about 1 day if nothing is done to slow it's progression) make it a bit more pressing than just isolation and containment.

Just think of what's almost the worst case situation. Not quite so bad as killing the entire human population, but worse than the plague in Europe, in terms of how many people it killed in relation to the population(what was it, about 3/4 of the population there?).