SARS: The Novel

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-09 05:07pm

http://www.msnbc.com/news/911510.asp

There's always one that gets these things right it seems, if it isn't Tom Clancy and hijacked planes going into federal buildings it's this.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-09 06:26pm

Jeez, what's with this SARS scare? AIDS is a far, far worse epidemic; this has killed only 500 people.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-05-09 06:35pm

Dalton wrote:Jeez, what's with this SARS scare? AIDS is a far, far worse epidemic; this has killed only 500 people.

True, but SARS is more infectious and more likely to mutate.

Not to mention in areas where health care is inadequate or places like China where they covered it up the death toll is horrendous. We're not seeing the worst of it here that's why it seems so ho-hum. It's bad, cities quarentined because nearly everyone sick and much higher deathrates than here. They've got it much, much worse.

And if anything that 500 is far lower than the real numbers. And whatever the death toll is, it's going to climb.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-09 11:12pm

Does this remind anyone of the movie Outbreak?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-05-09 11:18pm

After reading through the summary of the plot, I have decided that the book is royally fucked up.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-10 12:35pm

Gandalf wrote:Does this remind anyone of the movie Outbreak?

Heh, that was onTV not long ago and was on just prior to Xmas before that.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-10 04:40pm

Gandalf wrote:Does this remind anyone of the movie Outbreak?

Yeah, but SARS only has a what, 5% fatality rate?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-10 04:59pm

Exonerate wrote:
Gandalf wrote:Does this remind anyone of the movie Outbreak?
Yeah, but SARS only has a what, 5% fatality rate?

It's more 20-30% now given recent statistics.

As a bit of trivia, did you know that the Spanish Flu, the yardstick by which all modern pandemics are measured, only had a mortality rate of around 4%?

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-05-10 08:35pm

This is the stand all over again.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-10 08:39pm

aphexmonster wrote:This is the stand all over again.

Woah, I must've missed the last time 99% of the populace was wiped out. Must've been a wild weekend when I was out or something.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-05-10 10:12pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Woah, I must've missed the last time 99% of the populace was wiped out. Must've been a wild weekend when I was out or something.

I see dead people, they don't know that they're dead and they post to the internet.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-05-10 10:13pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Woah, I must've missed the last time 99% of the populace was wiped out. Must've been a wild weekend when I was out or something.

Yeah, man. Between the looting of malls and robbing of supermarkets, everybody drank and played loud music. It was a lot of fun, too bad you missed it.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-05-10 10:43pm

aphexmonster wrote:This is the stand all over again.

captain trips finished off in under a month. sars has been going longer then that.

I need to reread the book. .. .

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-10 10:47pm

Hmm, SARS, this gives me a great idea for a novel about a killer virus that wipes out humanity.

I'll make millions!

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-05-11 05:54am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Hmm, SARS, this gives me a great idea for a novel about a killer virus that wipes out humanity.

I'll make millions!

and we'll call you steven ...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-11 10:20am

aphexmonster wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Hmm, SARS, this gives me a great idea for a novel about a killer virus that wipes out humanity.

I'll make millions!
and we'll call you steven ...

My middle name is Stephen at least.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-11 10:30am

I am such a sick bastard.

Every time I see this thread title, I think "SARS: The Musical"

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-05-11 11:36am

Frank Hipper wrote:I am such a sick bastard.

Every time I see this thread title, I think "SARS: The Musical"

Why am I imagining doctors doing softshoe, or Chinese government officials throwing blankets over everything?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-05-11 07:25pm

Darth Gojira wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:I am such a sick bastard.

Every time I see this thread title, I think "SARS: The Musical"
Why am I imagining doctors doing softshoe, or Chinese government officials throwing blankets over everything?

Or the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show doing the 'SARS-warp'.