Poll of the Day > How different would people act if covid were 100% fatal?

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Do you feel anti maskers and such would still be a thing?

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They wouldn't act at all, they'd be dead

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I do not think so.

Yeah there still would be some, but I know a lot of people who think this is just the flu and nothing worse.

If people started dying even more en masse as to have a 100% fatality rate, some people would have to understand.

In fact, i hope covid mutates so that if somebody has it they just shoot bullets out of their mouth like bees. That's Othello Brand(tm) Ocular proof that couldn't be argued with.

They would have contained it better earlier

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if covid was 100% fatal then the pandemic would have long been a thing of the past

CarefreeDude posted...

Do you feel anti maskers and such would still be a thing?

If it was 100% fatal, you wouldn't have maskers at all because nobody would want to fucking go out. If COVID was 100% fatal, the country would be locked down immediately under martial law. Hell, the whole world would be locked down for 3 weeks then it would be gone forever.

Keep in mind that masks ultimately do very little good. It's a measure to SLOW the spread, it doesn't stop it. Even masks with social distancing can't stop the spread. If it was even 50% fatal, those wildly ineffective measures would be abandoned in favor of stronger ones that actually work but aren't being done because they're far more disruptive.


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Just look at the spread of HIV/Aids in the 80's and most of the 90's when it was still basically a death sentence.

Hell, look at teenage pregnancy numbers to this day.

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I guess living life like normal since everyone that got it would be dead already

Can't make your virus too deadly if you want it to spread

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SkylightNight posted...

if covid was 100% fatal then the pandemic would have long been a thing of the past

depends on the incubation time really

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Muscles posted...

I guess living life like normal since everyone that got it would be dead already

Can't make your virus too deadly if you want it to spread

Half the problem with Hanta or Ebola as bioweapons. They literally kill people faster than they can get on an airplane.

Effective AF at killing people, but basically kills people faster than it can spread.

Turns out that the nuke methodology is terrible for bioweapons.

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Mead posted...

depends on the incubation time really

Yep. 100% mortality after a week of being asymptomatically contagious would still be able to spread very effectively. Not as effectively as Covid has, since hosts dying does still put a damper on transmission, but still quite well.

LuciferSage posted...

Half the problem with Hanta or Ebola as bioweapons. They literally kill people faster than they can get on an airplane.

Pretty much. Ebola's got a mortality rate ~50 times higher than Covid's, yet the 2014 outbreak only managed to kill a little over 11,000 people in two years (100 times less than Covid has managed in a third of that time). The dead don't transmit viruses very well, especially in societies that understand how to handle corpses safely.

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adjl posted...

Pretty much. Ebola's got a mortality rate ~50 times higher than Covid's, yet the 2014 outbreak only managed to kill a little over 11,000 people in two years (100 times less than Covid has managed in a third of that time). The dead don't transmit viruses very well, especially in societies that understand how to handle corpses safely.

I mean, like if you need a scalpel to take out a small fortification and have a week to wait for results, Ebola is the way to go, deliver it by drone, and wait a week. If you want to cripple the entire world, you need something different...something like Covid, and a year to wait for people to lose their fucking minds...

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Not much different I think.

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