Scarey !

[gasbanni]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnbq4GV6uqo&feature=related

Quote : Nine meals away from Anarchy !

Thing about this is the quotes of actual events, where society has broken down when disaster strikes.

Best watched full screen ~ Enjoy !


Basically its a senario about if another pandemic breaks out, we haven't had one for about 100 years so we about due another one ..............that's why there was such a big scare about Bird flu it was a similar strain to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919.

Wikipedia :
The "Spanish flu", 1918–1919. First identified early in March 1918 in US troops training at Camp Funston, Kansas. By October 1918, it had spread to become a worldwide pandemic on all continents, and eventually infected about one-third of the world's population (or ≈500 million persons).[71] Unusually deadly and virulent, it ended nearly as quickly as it began, vanishing completely within 18 months. In six months, some 50 million were dead;[71] some estimates put the total of those killed worldwide at over twice that number.[72] About 17 million died in India, 675,000 in the United States[73] and 200,000 in the UK. The virus was recently reconstructed by scientists at the CDC studying remains preserved by the Alaskan permafrost. The H1N1 virus has a small, but crucial structure that is similar to the Spanish Flu.[74]

Notably they didn't have fast worldwide travel back in 1919, so presumably a virus would spread much faster in our day and age.

 

[EddieM]

just mother nature doing some housekeeping, she's been a bit remiss lately, and will probably have to have a good spring clean.

 

[gasbanni]

Real Pandemics occur every 100 years or so, so I guess were due for another one at anytime.

 

[EddieM]

Real Pandemics occur every 100 years or so, so I guess were due for another one at anytime.

no point worrying about that you cant control.

 

[UriBentMySpoon]

No matter when or what it happens there will be those who tell us it is God's judgement on us.

Deadly viruses or the God squad. Who do you reckon would win in a fight?

 

[Whitespirit66]

Real Pandemics occur every 100 years or so, so I guess were due for another one at anytime.

You must be a barrel of laughs in your local, Gas.

 

[noseall]

I reckon we ARE teetering on something catastrophically contagious.

We try and hold back the tide with antibiotics only for nature to find a better adapted bacteria, for us to then strengthen the antibiotics etc, etc.

Summats gotta give.

 

[joe-90]

Viruses are self limiting. Most of the 1918 victims died of pneumonia from secondary infection which wouldn't happen today.

 

[EddieM]

Viruses are self limiting. Most of the 1918 victims died of pneumonia from secondary infection which wouldn't happen today.

yes, but you could argue that humans are merely a macro virus.

 

[chapeau]

Well it's a general rule that the buggahs that kill almost everybody that catches it are hard to catch in the first place. The little buggahs that tend to be relatively harmless are more easy to catch. One day a bug will turn up that's easy to catch and kills everybody.

The Europeans exported such beasts to North America a few hundred years ago. Of course the Europeans had been decimated by such bugs in unrecorded history and had therefore picked up some sort of evolutionary immunity whereas the native Americans didn't.

But only a matter of time before we get knocked out by another beastie that modern science cannot protect us from. Probably be some ebola type nasty, I would wager, or maybe some smallpox that nobody in the West under the age of 50 has had exposure to. I'd also put money on it being engineered by man, though nature is quite cabable of doing sucn a thing, does it all the time.

 

[Norcon]

At least a lot of the americans have their own guns for self protection.
We'd be running around with pitchforks and graips.
A pitchfork thrust in the stomach to the shaft though would be quite a belly ache for any attacker.