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Having read Laurie Gannet’s The Coming Plauge the possibility of air transmissible Ebola is on my list after Prions.
by wombatpm 3y ago
Having read Laurie Gannet’s The Coming Plauge the possibility of air transmissible Ebola is on my list after Prions.
- huytersd 3y agoIt kills too quickly. You would have to hole up for 10-20 days and the infection will wipe itself out.
- azinman2 3y agoPost Covid what do you think the chances are of that happening now?
- all2 3y agoOnce people started seeing folks disintegrate in public I don't think it would be too much of an issue. In fact, I'd bet people would willingly hole up so they didn't catch that new plague that causes you to rot from the inside out.
- huytersd 3y agoIrrelevant I think. This is going to be brutal and very visible. Good riddance to the denialists at that point.
- baxtr 3y agoAnyone who played this virus game on their phone knows how difficult it is to wipe out all of humanity! You have to have the optimal mix of lethality and spread velocity.
- ahazred8ta 3y agohttps://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague
- leptons 3y agoI sometimes ponder that if HIV were airborne, there would be very few people alive right now. It would have travelled far and wide and infected practically everyone before we even knew what was happening, and long before there were any real mitigations, and there still isn't really a cure. It's only a matter of time before nature invents a virus that will work around our defenses and spread silently and then wham, 90% of humanity is gone.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoWe’d work harder on finding ways to reduce spread and extend the lifespan of the infected. I think we’d manage. Already HIV and AIDS are highly treatable, and lifespans are measured in years and decades rather than days and weeks.
- LinuxBender 3y agoAlready HIV and AIDS are highly treatable Doesn't it cost something like $100k/yr? And if so do insurance companies keep people on their policy for long after they contract it?
- d1sxeyes 3y agoI am not sure. In a lot of countries, access to healthcare is not dependent on the wealth of the recipient, or the goodwill of an insurance company.
- leptons 3y agoI think you're missing the point of my comment. When HIV and AIDS were first spreading, nobody knew what it was and it took quite a long time before there was even any acknowledgement that something was wrong. There simply wouldn't be time to invent countermeasures if HIV were airborne, because all the scientists would be dying/dead already, because AIDS doesn't kill the patient immediately, or quickly. If it had been airborne in the early 1980s, it would have spread far and wide quickly, and practically everyone on the planet would have had it within a few months or a year. And we didn't have the same medical tech back then that we do now.