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Originally Posted by Saccade
I'd like to see the people in London stand 6ft away from me.
That'd be great.
Maybe if I contract something that's not fatal, it'll happen and I can catch the tube without having to sniff some fat bastard's armpit or get squashed into some leviathon cleavage.
What's the toll now? 100 worldwide? Mostly come back from Mexico or something right?
More people were killed in the first few hours we walked into Basra.
People shot pigs, too. They have human cries. Not nice. I don't want to think about it.
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The real danger lies in an existing dangerous flu like this mutating in such a way that antibiotics are powerless. It must be very contagious since there's already been many people around the world who contracted it so it just needs a single bad mutation and we're screwed.
It's why the so called Hospital germs are a danger as well - they may not be deadly to everyone except for weakened patients, but a single bad mutation can make them deadly, and their inherent immunity to pretty much all known antibiotics would mean they would be hard to stop.