Ok, the plague is coming in 48 hours, what do you do?

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-11-02 10:57pm

Lets say its human contact, breath, fluids, and touch, things like that

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-11-02 11:44pm

Nah, the old b-movie 'Virus' is better.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-11-03 01:42am

Load the bed of my truck up with a case of motor oil, gas cans aplenty, a bottle of Tequilla, a shitload of water and canned food, and some camping gear, and drive to Butt-fuck, Wyoming. Gas up before the plague hits the town, then offroad it to a secluded valley, camp for two weeks. Go to San Fransisco, do an "Earth Abides" kinda thing.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-11-03 07:12am

FaxModem1 wrote:Lets say its human contact, breath, fluids, and touch, things like that

That's easy to defend against. No need to make the house airtight, just the basement and ground level windows.

Then go to the grocery store, max out my credit card getting bottled water and canned food, go to the hardware store, get a generator and a shit load of propane, get my friends and family to do the same, and hold up in a suitable house.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-03 08:03am

Unless you have people counging into your windows, there's no need to even do that. The only one who gets remotely close enough to my house to be a threat would be the mailman. there's no bacterium or virus going to make it through the cracks in your windows in enough amounts to gain a foothold in your body. Extreme measures like driving to Wyoming won't be necessary. Oh, I suppose just to be safe, you could use masking tape. But from outside, the wind currents would swirl it around so much as to cause it to dissipate rather quickly. easy to ride this one out, methinks. Then, when I re emerge, I again emphasize the "Breathes in the oddly fresh air" point again.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-11-03 02:46pm

Knowing my shitty luck i'll be the 1st one who gets it and causes all of humanity to die.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-11-03 03:34pm

Buy stock in Kleenex.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-11-03 03:45pm

FaxModem1 wrote:Ok, lets say that you find out through a friend of a friend or something like that, that a plague that is VERY contagious, let's say 75% level(and those that are infected die within 7 days), is going across the Earth, what do you do?

Keep in mind, to the rest of the world, its business as normal, the governments are surpressing it because they do not want a riot on their hands.

So, what do you do for the next 48 hours?

The premise of the OP is fundamentally flawed. Any plague that effective will rapidly burn itself out. Furthermore, it would be in a government's best interest to announce that such a monster is about. News like that tends to discourage people from leaving home. (SARS, with it's astonishing 10% lethality rate is a prime example.)