Originally posted by: C3PX
CONSPIRACY THEORIST MODE
Any one ever think about the possibility of these Asian flus that are always poping up could be created in a labratory? The is a massive over population problem there, enough to support regulations for the number of chilrden you can have and to "justify" infantacide. Typically it is the elderly who fall victim to these thing, as well as the weak. If you were to want to purge your nation of some excess baggage, this way gets rid of the old pensionists who, once dead, will no longer require pension checks. It also gets rid of the sickly types and some forms of handicaped people. With a good portion of the elderly and weak out of the way, you are left with the fitest of the nation, and a lot less wasted resources.
Just a thought. Not saying I believe this is what is happening. It is more of a "what if" sort of thing to think about. Worse things have happened in our history than this.
Conspiracy theory mode off.
HAHAHAHAHA no, avian flu really sucks cause it kills people that are middle aged and healthy. thats what the 1918 flu did. funny thing about sars, i think sars only killed elderly which is why it seemed alot worse then it was cause it had a crasy mortality rate. bhah stats can be used to support any idea known to man.
Frighteningly, something like this could be a very awful weapon. Perhaps far worse than anything the cold war had to offer.
CONSPIRACY THEORIST MODE
Any one ever think about the possibility of these Asian flus that are always poping up could be created in a labratory? The is a massive over population problem there, enough to support regulations for the number of chilrden you can have and to "justify" infantacide. Typically it is the elderly who fall victim to these thing, as well as the weak. If you were to want to purge your nation of some excess baggage, this way gets rid of the old pensionists who, once dead, will no longer require pension checks. It also gets rid of the sickly types and some forms of handicaped people. With a good portion of the elderly and weak out of the way, you are left with the fitest of the nation, and a lot less wasted resources.
Just a thought. Not saying I believe this is what is happening. It is more of a "what if" sort of thing to think about. Worse things have happened in our history than this.
Conspiracy theory mode off.
HAHAHAHAHA no, avian flu really sucks cause it kills people that are middle aged and healthy. thats what the 1918 flu did. funny thing about sars, i think sars only killed elderly which is why it seemed alot worse then it was cause it had a crasy mortality rate. bhah stats can be used to support any idea known to man.
Frighteningly, something like this could be a very awful weapon. Perhaps far worse than anything the cold war had to offer.
naw you know that little bug called small pox, thats about hundred thousand cazillion times worse. why cause of its infection life cycle. a person can be infectedwith small pox for 12 days and not really know it, giving them time to travel and spread the disease all over the place, then it'll really mess people up. small pox would be super hard to quarentine, and to make matters worse, the disease has been effectively eliminated from the global population for about 30 odd years, and therefore a large potion of the global population dont have any sort of resistance to it. this means that the mortality rate would be way up.just look at what happened to the natives. you know some anthopologists are starting to theorize that the native population in north america was upwards of 40 million before columbus. disease such as small pox then traveled faster then the explorers and wiped out the natives throughout the continent before the europeans got there. so there you have it, thats what can happened. atleast with avian flu we get flus all the time so our bodies have some sort of resistance.