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Flu Pandemic?

Started by RPGPundit, April 24, 2009, 07:06:21 PM

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April 24, 2009, 07:06:21 PM
In Mexico they were reporting 16 dead this morning. Now its almost 60 dead, and hundreds infected.

Meanwhile the US has confirmed several cities with the same strain (swine flu?).

Is this the start of a post-apocalypse campaign?

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#1
April 24, 2009, 07:30:20 PM
.....only if we start hearing "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult as the background music the next few days and an army officer that looks like Ed Harris shoots himself while inside a bunker....


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April 24, 2009, 08:00:31 PM
Don't ask me, man, I got a head cold.
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#3
April 24, 2009, 10:10:55 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;298569In Mexico they were reporting 16 dead this morning. Now its almost 60 dead, and hundreds infected.

Meanwhile the US has confirmed several cities with the same strain (swine flu?).

Is this the start of a post-apocalypse campaign?

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#4
April 26, 2009, 03:20:26 PM
Currently, they're speculating a 7% fatality rate. The spanish flu of 1918 had a 2.5% estimated fatality rate, and it killed off 40 million people.
Also, almost all the victims have been in the 20-40 year range.
Children, who are often the most vulnerable to influenza, seem to have some resistance to the strain.

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#5
April 26, 2009, 03:43:18 PM
If I recall, the last avian flu epidemic had a similar outcome; otherwise healthy people had the highest fatality rates, because the virus wreaked havoc with their immune systems, throwing them into maximum overdrive.  Essentially, they dissolved themselves from the inside.  One coroner described the lungs of one victim as 'bloody rags' after the ravages of the illness had run its course.
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April 26, 2009, 03:52:13 PM
I heard it was Forgies that this strain originated with, thus the term, "Swine Flu".
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#7
April 27, 2009, 02:19:42 AM
I think that the most probable outcome will be the same as aviar flu: nothing but hysteria.
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April 27, 2009, 02:23:02 AM
Quote from: Imperator;298808I think that the most probable outcome will be the same as aviar flu: nothing but hysteria.
Or rather, hysteria in the popular press, and a strong response from the authorities which means that the hysterical fantasies of the press never come true.

Thus, thousands dead and economies severely disrupted (was bad during a boom, will be worse now during a bust), but not hundreds of thousands or millions dead, and economies destroyed.
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#9
April 27, 2009, 08:49:38 AM
At least it brought the funny.

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#10
April 28, 2009, 07:46:26 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;298772Currently, they're speculating a 7% fatality rate. The spanish flu of 1918 had a 2.5% estimated fatality rate, and it killed off 40 million people.
Also, almost all the victims have been in the 20-40 year range.
Children, who are often the most vulnerable to influenza, seem to have some resistance to the strain.

RPGPundit

People speculate about all kinds of crazy-ass shit.  I don't think we need worry about 7% just yet.  What's the mortality rate so far in the US, where they have access to advanced hospitals and drugs?  I suspect not 7%.

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#11
April 28, 2009, 08:30:06 AM
Quote from: Balbinus;298982People speculate about all kinds of crazy-ass shit.  I don't think we need worry about 7% just yet.  What's the mortality rate so far in the US, where they have access to advanced hospitals and drugs?  I suspect not 7%.
Again, I'm fairly sure that this will be as inconsequential as the bird flu.

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#12
April 28, 2009, 05:41:23 PM
Quote from: Balbinus;298982People speculate about all kinds of crazy-ass shit.
I predict that the disease will disproportionately affect the politically conservative, but only after 144,000 people worldwide (all of them Caucasian and registered Republicans, of course) mysteriously disappear in the blink of an eye.  Inoculation against the disease, as administered by the WHO, will include the implantation of an RFID chip.  After all the Righties are dead or ascended, World President Obama can openly reveal his horns and barbed tail.  Cocktails will follow.

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boulet

#13
April 28, 2009, 05:53:13 PM
Ian, did you read that in (Republican) tea (party) leaves ?

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#14
April 28, 2009, 06:00:59 PM
Har!

It is writ large in the stars my friend.

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