How would people react to a 97% FATAL VIRUS......????

[ladycat]

They would just order everything online from Amazon*, like they do today.
*which sells everything except ammo, weed, and sildenafil. You would only have to venture out for those.

Amazon has a prescription pharmacy division so they probably sell sildenafil.

 

[joel]

Most people would die, the few that lived, would be immune.
The great reset would happen across the board & the rich would suffer with the rest of us, not rich people. If the virus was fast acting, then some people would die in large cities from unsanitary conditions, because there are not enough people left to clean up.
People in the outer laying area would fair better, if they had storage of food.
In a year or so would the virus die out or mutant & start again?
Would new born children be immune or would a percentage of them die from the virus? How long will the virus stay in the area, would it die out or remain like the American Chestnut disease?

 

[SheepDog]

Viruses with high mortality rate typically have a very short life. Like Ebola, people get sick and die so the virus dies out before large masses can be affected. A fairly stable man made virus could be delivered in an aerosol form but high density targets would be chosen for best effect. It would be difficult to target smaller low density populations with any expectation of success. On top of that the aerosol agent would have to protect the virus from UV radiation, heat and cold as well as dry air.

 

[Magus]

I'd calmly go back to the wood dump with every square inch of Winnie crammed with supplies and propane and try not to giggle like a drunk cheerleader every time they read the body count.

 

[sonya123]

Just watch the old steven king movie "The stand". I do every once in a while just to stay current.

That was the first thing that popped into my head, The Stand! The book is better than the movie!

I would set all our animals free so they could fend for themselves, and accept our fate. Even if you stayed put, eventually you would get exposed somehow, so unless you are in the 3 % it would be overly optimistic to think you would stay alive

 

[Cascadian]

I think I would have cake and ice cream for dinner and eat whatever I wanted after that.

 

[Sourdough]

Even if you stayed put, eventually you would get exposed somehow, so unless you are in the 3 % it would be overly optimistic to think you would stay alive

Why not avoid "ALL or nearly ALL" contact with humans.....???

 

[Supervisor42]

Why not avoid "ALL or nearly ALL" contact with humans.....???

Pretty quick there wouldn't be any people to interact with anyway.
Any survivors would be in hiding.
What would be the point in living after that? Keeping the animals company?
Leaving a note for the alien historians to find that said: "I survived dammit!"?
Oh I forgot, there will always be Facebook, er... better check that.

 

[SheepDog]

I NEVER believe percentages. I am alive and I intend to be alive for as long as I live. I have a great immune system and I am not a fool.
There will always be some who are not infected and there will always be those that are immune.
Add to those the 3% that survive. You still have a breeding population.

 

[Magus]

Pretty quick there wouldn't be any people to interact with anyway.
Any survivors would be in hiding.
What would be the point in living after that? Keeping the animals company?
Leaving a note for the alien historians to find that said: "I survived dammit!"?
Oh I forgot, there will always be Facebook, er... better check that.

Suppose the alien historians were the only ones left?

 

[Supervisor42]

Suppose the alien historians were the only ones left?

With that term I was referring to the visitors 1,000 years from now that come to our planet to inspect the ruins of our civilizations, wondering what tha-heck happened.
Of course, if mankind dies out because everybody read about some 'hypothetical 97% fatal virus' on the internet, it will take them a while to figure that out.

 

[Sourdough]

What would be the point in living after that? Keeping the animals company?

Repopulating the earth. There are isolated villages in Alaska and Canada, Islands in the Pacific Ocean. I have been very surprised that more people with money and skills have not acquired remote property the last two years. I continue to believe humans are terrified of wilderness.

 

[Neb]

With that term I was referring to the visitors 1,000 years from now that come to our planet to inspect the ruins of our civilizations, wondering what tha-heck happened.
Of course, if mankind dies out because everybody read about some 'hypothetical 97% fatal virus' on the internet, it will take them a while to figure that out.

According to the documentary "War of the Worlds" the aliens would be more susceptible to the virus.

So the neighborly thing to do would be to set up warning signs before the last human turns out the lights.

Ben

 

[Supervisor42]

According to the documentary "War of the Worlds" the aliens would be more susceptible to the virus.

So the neighborly thing to do would be to set up warning signs before the last human turns out the lights.

Ben

That would be pretty twisted to know that when aliens finally come to visit after we are long-gone, they would immediately begin vaccinating each other to death against a virus that was only spread by TikTok .

 

[Tacitus]

Storyline for Earth Abides, a 1949 scifi novel in which disease kills off most of the world in a matter of weeks.

The good news?...the survivors had a lot of free canned goods to eat for the first few years.

 

[Neb]

Storyline for Earth Abides, a 1949 scifi novel in which disease kills off most of the world in a matter of weeks.

The good news?...the survivors had a lot of free canned goods to eat for the first few years.

Leeve it to @Tacitus 5o find a silver lining in a 97% fatal virus.


Ben

 

[joel]

Or the scifi story/TV show where Alien had robot guards & the human they did not kill, had to work the mines. The Aliens had moved on years ago & robots still made the human work, until the masters returned, per their program. The Guards ran out of repair parts & the humans, found out the Aliens had left, because the mineral were depleted. So the human walked out into a lush green world, like the garden of Eden.

 

[Magus]

Storyline for Earth Abides, a 1949 scifi novel in which disease kills off most of the world in a matter of weeks.

The good news?...the survivors had a lot of free canned goods to eat for the first few years.

Not so. if they're not protected, the first hard freeze wrecks them.

 

[DrJenner]

I think I would have cake and ice cream for dinner and eat whatever I wanted after that.

That’s perfect.
I would probably be among the first to die if I wasn’t immune. At least my kids can get my stuff.

 

[Haertig]

Why not avoid "ALL or nearly ALL" contact with humans.....???

Because that would be impossible for more than a few weeks. I don't think anybody is prepped enough to live out their life solo for very long. And what a horrible life it would be, scraping by, waiting for the inevitable. I don't think I'd like surviving that.

 

[Haertig]

What would be the point in living after that?

Repopulating the earth.

I can just see the reactions now. I show up with my sign, "You're in luck, I'm here to repopulate the Earth with you!" The responses would be:

"No!"
"You've got to be kidding!"
"No way, Jose!"
"You couldn't pay me enough!"
"Hell no! Are you insane?"
"No way I'm doing that!"
"Screw the Earth, I'm outta here!"

 

[Tacitus]

I can just see the reactions now. I show up with my sign, "You're in luck, I'm here to repopulate the Earth with you!" The responses would be:

"No!"
"You've got to be kidding!"
"No way, Jose!"
"You couldn't pay me enough!"
"Hell no! Are you insane?"
"No way I'm doing that!"
"Screw the Earth, I'm outta here!"

We all must do our duty!

 

[Sourdough]

I don't think anybody is prepped enough to live out their life solo for very long.

Just curious.......how long do you believe "serious" preppers are prepared for......???

 

[Magus]

I'm good for 6 months +
Anything longer and I'm in predator mode.

 

[Tacitus]

I'm good for 6 months +

Me too...as long as it rains. Water is my weakness...probably the worst weakness to have.

There are springs within a few miles of me (but within miles of many more people as well), and some disgusting lakes nearby. I can filter/santize...I just need to make sure I've got water.

 

[Supervisor42]

Why not avoid "ALL or nearly ALL" contact with humans.....???

The problem wouldn't be you contacting others.
...It would be when your neighbors showed up for a visit:

 

[Tacitus]

The problem wouldn't be you contacting others...
It would be when your neighbors showed up for a visit:

Yeah...but if this latest pandemic provides an example of how they will behave, they will be much less likely to come to my house than I would be to go to theirs in a 97% death pandemic. Other people have been far more afraid of covid (a .3% killer) than I have been.

 

[Sourdough]

The problem wouldn't be you contacting others....It would be when your neighbors showed up for a visit:

Don't have any neighbors.

I think you are not understanding what I am saying/posting. To be clear.........I am saying, "Get the hell away from all other humans".

Get so far away, that you have "ZERO" human contact.

Roughly 50 years ago I went into Alaska wilderness, I spent a little over (6) SIX MONTHS Alone. Never seen another human and never heard a human voice, no radio, no phone, just me and God in Alaska wilderness.

Another example........in the last 28 months I have only been to town once. I fail to grasp how a human can get any disease from another human if they stay far away from all humans.

 

[Haertig]

I fail to grasp how a human can get any disease from another human if they stay far away from all humans.

You may not get the disease. But you may start talking to volleyballs after a while. Wilson!!!