I was just wondering if anyone else saw this movie. The basic plot is that a terrible disease that kills pretty much 100% of people who get it breaks out. And its the story of 4 people who are trying to survive. It brought up some interesting points, things like where to get gas, would you be willing to kill innocents to protect your family, how would you stay entertained (hint if you find a working golf cart leave don't play with it it probably belongs to a group of hardcore ex-military survivalists that want to kill you and take your women to continue the species.) Anyway I thought it was an entertaining and thought provoking show.
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I was just wondering if anyone else saw this movie. The basic plot is that a terrible disease that kills pretty much 100% of people who get it breaks out. And its the story of 4 people who are trying to survive. It brought up some interesting points, things like where to get gas, would you be willing to kill innocents to protect your family, how would you stay entertained (hint if you find a working golf cart leave don't play with it it probably belongs to a group of hardcore ex-military survivalists that want to kill you and take your women to continue the species.) Anyway I thought it was an entertaining and thought provoking show.
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Plague on this order does happen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27556747/
I hate to cite MSNBC, but they got this right. Plague that is 100% lethal is not beyond the realm of possibility, and humans would spread it like wildfire with our travel habits. A rapidly transmissible 100% lethal disease with a long incubation period would be our extinction.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27556747/
I hate to cite MSNBC, but they got this right. Plague that is 100% lethal is not beyond the realm of possibility, and humans would spread it like wildfire with our travel habits. A rapidly transmissible 100% lethal disease with a long incubation period would be our extinction.
It was pretty good.
My worry last year with the swine flu was that another more serious disease with similar symptoms was going to come through the back door. Like Crusis was saying, pneumonic plague has a near 100% fatality rate if it's not caught very early. It occasionally pops up, like in rural China last summer. The good news is that it's very treatable by common antibiotics. But if doctors are lazy and assuming every cough & fever is benign swine flu, it could get a big foothold in society before they realized their error.
My worry last year with the swine flu was that another more serious disease with similar symptoms was going to come through the back door. Like Crusis was saying, pneumonic plague has a near 100% fatality rate if it's not caught very early. It occasionally pops up, like in rural China last summer. The good news is that it's very treatable by common antibiotics. But if doctors are lazy and assuming every cough & fever is benign swine flu, it could get a big foothold in society before they realized their error.
Even 80 % casualties like ebola virus would be teotwawki. I don't know that things would ever get that bad in developed countries but it makes you think and if tshtf afterwards disease without modern medicine would be a whole different story.
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I saw that movie and in fact my husband and I were just talking about it with his manager not even 30 minutes ago! Small world. (They work at a movie rental store so we get free rentals yay!).
I agree with what everyone is saying about viruses that could change the world as we know it or even cause extinction of the human race.
Swine Flu- I was still working at the hospital last year when it came up and I can tell you that not one single Dr. or nurse that I worked with got the swine flu vaccine despite the hospital almost forcing us to. I thought it was very weird that they were pressuring us so heavily to get it. Trying to kill us through vaccines or did they know something about the virus that we didn't know?
Anyway, I didn't get the vaccine and I ended up getting the swine flu and let me tell you..it sucked big time. I seriously felt like I was dying. (Supposedly it affects younger people worse.) I've never seen my husband so sick either.
So...I'm seriously concerned it will come back this flu season, except like all other flus it will be mutated again so another vaccine will be available. It was odd enough that it was already 4 strains of flus combined into one in the first place. Two swine flus, an avian flu, and a human flu. I was honestly so sick that I didn't care what "they" did to me and knew I'd feel better if it just hurried up and killed me. lol. The doctor prescribed me Tamiflu and I gladly took it. (I didn't really care if I made the drug companies richer at that point lol). Anyway, the Tamiflu made me start feeling a little better that night and even better the next morning even though I was still really sick.
I ended up getting pneumonia, which was what was actually causing so many people to die from the swine flu. It was a type "A" flu, which are bad to cause pneumonia anyway, but swine flu was causing secondary infections like pneumonia in almost all cases. Some people (not many) even got meningitis as secondary infections. (Again, that can happen with any type a flu, but was more common with swine flu).
Sorry that was so long. I guess the point is you never know what kind of weird virus will come up, mutate, or possibly spread like wildfire around the world causing a pandemic. I guess I sound kinda paranoid about the health care system, especially since I'm a nurse. haha.
I agree with what everyone is saying about viruses that could change the world as we know it or even cause extinction of the human race.
Swine Flu- I was still working at the hospital last year when it came up and I can tell you that not one single Dr. or nurse that I worked with got the swine flu vaccine despite the hospital almost forcing us to. I thought it was very weird that they were pressuring us so heavily to get it. Trying to kill us through vaccines or did they know something about the virus that we didn't know?
Anyway, I didn't get the vaccine and I ended up getting the swine flu and let me tell you..it sucked big time. I seriously felt like I was dying. (Supposedly it affects younger people worse.) I've never seen my husband so sick either.
So...I'm seriously concerned it will come back this flu season, except like all other flus it will be mutated again so another vaccine will be available. It was odd enough that it was already 4 strains of flus combined into one in the first place. Two swine flus, an avian flu, and a human flu. I was honestly so sick that I didn't care what "they" did to me and knew I'd feel better if it just hurried up and killed me. lol. The doctor prescribed me Tamiflu and I gladly took it. (I didn't really care if I made the drug companies richer at that point lol). Anyway, the Tamiflu made me start feeling a little better that night and even better the next morning even though I was still really sick.
I ended up getting pneumonia, which was what was actually causing so many people to die from the swine flu. It was a type "A" flu, which are bad to cause pneumonia anyway, but swine flu was causing secondary infections like pneumonia in almost all cases. Some people (not many) even got meningitis as secondary infections. (Again, that can happen with any type a flu, but was more common with swine flu).
Sorry that was so long. I guess the point is you never know what kind of weird virus will come up, mutate, or possibly spread like wildfire around the world causing a pandemic. I guess I sound kinda paranoid about the health care system, especially since I'm a nurse. haha.
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