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Originally Posted by SilverTab
if the death rate is as high as they pretend, it wont spread out that much...because people dont have enough time to spread the disease...
in huge epidemic (like the H1N1 in 1918) the death rate was around 2%...which leaves a lot of time for people to spread the disease!...if the death rate is higher than 50% like they prentend it is in this case...it has MUCH less chance of spreading into a pandemic
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The spread rate is dictated by the incubation period and period of contagion. You could have a Captain Tripps superflu that's 95% effective but takes a full year to completely incubate, with a majority of that time being infectuous. Presenting as, say, a non-stop case of allergies where level of sneezing was elevated. Something like that would fuck up the world, full stop.
Now, turns out the most deadly virii also tend to incubate hard and fast and mess you up in a hurry, thus limiting exposure due to rapid death or disablement of the victim (ebola outbreaks in places like Angola, f'instance)... but there's no reason why they HAVE to operate like that.