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Originally Posted by rickholio
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.
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I guess you're right...makes sense...I just read somewhere that recently scientists said the death rate was actually lower than they actually thought, and that it was worrying them because the lower the death rate, the bigger chance of it turning into a pandemic...or something like that....anyway...Im just sick of hearing about this on the news every god damn day...
GO HABS GO is all I have to say...I'll worry about the flu later...