re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Thoughts with Spoilers; Fricking fantastic)

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The wipe them out thing was stupid. even at survival rate of 1 in 500, that still means 10-20 million humans, based on 5 billion people. Figure more deaths due to disease etc. But still. Concentrate as many as you can in a few areas. Already have the technical knowledge. Apes don't have that and won't on their own for some time. Not every group has a Ceasar who was raised and trained by humans. So take some time, get civilization going again, and then start wiping them out or reducing their population.

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You aren't thinking things though, and you are taking a lot of big steps for granted.

You aren't really thinking of the fallout of a pandemic like that. What scares administrations about pandemic flus isn't the direct death toll of it. Its the complete societal collapse that occurs.

And a death rate of 500 to 1 is more lethal than fricking Ebola. And its super contagious.

20 million humans that survive the virus means that on the planet there is one person for every 7,500,000 square kilometers.

To put that in perspective, that is larger than all states Gulf Coast, INCLUDING Texas, combined.


Oh, and multiply that area by three.

On average, one person for all that area.


Now where are these people concentrating exactly?

Also factor in that people aren't evenly distributed on the planet. They are concentrated in cities that can't hope to sustain themselves, that depend on a national logistics network to run. And as resources run scarce, they will turn on each other to fend off starvation.

Between the virus, starvation, and murder its not a surprise to wonder if they are the only ones left. That beleaguered group of humans were probably the only ones left in all of California.