Second Pandemic

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  1. ImperialNero

    ImperialNero Well-Known Member

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    Well, even though we may have the means to cure bubonic plague, dont forget that we are still fighting with another pandemic that is still mostly unknown. And im not sure if we can contain it properly when we are starting run out of resources like personal protective equipment, and when hospitals are overfilled because covid
     
  2. Beer_Kitty

    Beer_Kitty Just a very very drunk kitty that likes beer

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    What im afraid of is the ticks.

    Well, we will only see them on fur coats being sold in the US.
     
  3. Robbini

    Robbini Logical? Illogical? Random? Or Just Unique?

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    The bubonic plague never fully vanished, there's always a few cases each year, excluding the times when it actually harvests thousands within years.
     
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    Odyssey Well-Known Member

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    your "meh, it is 2020" line theres a meme i saw that said that in the future this year would be a catchphrase.

    "How was your day?"
    "Was a total 2020"
     
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  5. Sabruness

    Sabruness Cultured Yuri Connoisseur

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    some perspective: the last "great" outbreak of plague in china and india led to the deaths of 12 million people, in the late 1800s. It also sparked the third plague epidemic which spread all over the world and was considered by the WHO to have been active until 1960.

    When you break down into the plague subtypes, Bubonic plague is the most common yet relatively the least deadliest. Pneumonic plague and septicemic plague are uncommon and extremely rare respectively but are far deadlier. Pneumonic plague caused most of the 12 million deaths i mentioned above. Pneumonic's also the scariest one as it easily spreads from person to person and is believe to be the plague version responsible for the Black Death.
    Without treatment, pneumonic and septicemic plague are pretty much 100% fatal. With prompt treatment (within 24 hours or so), death rate is between 4%-15%.
     
  6. OneeChanKyun

    OneeChanKyun Well-Known Member

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    Yog-Sothoth Well-Known Member

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    Waiting for human-infecting Cordyceps to appear by October
     
  8. RRat

    RRat Well-Known Member

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    Guess 2020 will go down as The Worst Year Ever:blobdead: just hoping that there'll be less deaths this time
     
  9. Scyphoza

    Scyphoza Well-Known Member

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    All these plagues happening when are we going to get a good one the mutates us into monsters or gives us superpowers? I could totally use a few mutated tentacles, For reasons.
     
  10. ExcitableFoci

    ExcitableFoci Well-Known Member

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    Don't let this distract you from climate change, which at the pace we are at, will claim waaaay more lives than several coronaviruses.
     
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    ludagad Addicted to escapist novels

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    Sounds like nature is really determined to wipe out a portion of the population.
     
  12. Maxwell

    Maxwell Well-Known Member

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    Isn't the earth like totally fucked up already?!! We got the possibility of WW3 occuring, we got Covid-19 and other known virus on the loose and finally there's the climate change and global warming. I'm pretty sure lack of resources will be the least of our problem in the future.
     
  13. Halcyon Observer

    Halcyon Observer Full stop

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    That is correct. Even before 2020, humanity destroying the Earth was already set in stone. After humanity's industrialization and globalization, nature could no longer keep up with humanity's rate of destruction. We've progressed to a stage where our collective actions are changing environments and climates. Sure, maybe the lack of resources isn't a problem in the foreseeable future, but what about a thousand years ahead? Generations come into being and just pass the buck to the next generation when they go, cheering them on to find a miracle solution because they couldn't find one nor couldn't be bothered to. Humans in generally just tend to not think about long-term consequences~
     
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