Originally posted by JJay55
ok, let's do a sim.
Boston, people are dropping like flies. There are so many bodies that the morgue hires refridgerated trucks to house them all. There is a stench in the air. People are couching and sickly. There are few employees at the hospital and they are quarantined off to care for the remaining patients. All over the US there are similar stories.
The psychological effect on the public is taking it's toll. People are looting. Store owners shoot looters which cause increased racial tension.
Businesses shut their doors and many run on skelton crews from home via computer. The entire country is forced to take a month vacation. Those who refuse to stay inside are collected and put in football stadiums and other shelters which are becoming stinky and rowdy. During all this family members are split up and pets are left to fend for themselves in the streets.
Ok... anyone want to continue this scenerio?
What I think that the scenerio is missing is a few points:
1) The disease is not the swine flu. Something tells me that it would not be a disease that you could easily lay your hand on a vacination for, or make simply in a lab. Things like blood transfusions from one person to another, especially if they have developed immunity to such will pass said immunity on, so the health officials could do that in the event of such a break out. No what you need is something nastier, and one where they do not keep the vacination in stock.
2) It would have to hit large cities at the same time. So it would mean that someone with an airborn virus has to fly from city to city, or even already infected just has to visit each city, a carrier. Stay about a day and then move on, also hitting major points of public transportation hubs as well.
3) Give it about 2 weeks and sit back and wait. Thus you can infect entire populations in a matter of a few weeks, and if you have the vaccine, well then you have the control, health centers would be flooded with cases and overburdened, and the government, in the interest in the general welfare of the population would declare a state of emergency and shut down everything, instructing that all roads be closed, as it was an emergency, all TV stations and broadcasting would be forced to go through with FCC regulations.
Sounds like something that could be done.


, if the government says we have to have them, it must be the best thing for us.....

