re: If a real super virus ever comes about, humanity is screwed

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Jeez, the ridiculousness of this situation when like 0.1% of people under 60 have died worldwide is unbelievable.

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So, you're cool with the folks that have died over 60? Nice guy. This is a superbug for those 60+. It's definitely a scary situation for those 70+. You should go over to your local senior housing and tell them to toughen up.

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To time people woke to the enlightening world of individualism.

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My grandfather was born in 1919. He grew up in the peak of the Great Depression. He told me the best thing he could do for me as young man was to teach me how to grow food, hunt, fish and work on cars, which he did.

He paid for my college too because he didn't want me to go to war like he did.

It's interesting how different the country is 100 years later. Quality of life is better for sure but we are more susceptible to mass panic.

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Ebola is not suited to be a mass killer. It’s hosts have obvious symptoms and die too quickly to spread the virus too far.

The virus that could end us has to have a longer incubation period and kill slowly

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I admittedly don't know much about Ebola. Isn't the mortality rate like 75%

With the way the world has globalized, it'll only take one to hit every country on earth fairly hard.

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other people will kill more than the virus itself

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This is why I keep plenty of ammo on hand.

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I admittedly don't know much about Ebola. Isn't the mortality rate like 75%

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90+ for some strains. You basically have to get close enough to the guy bleeding from every orifice in his body to get some on you to catch it, though.

I'm not going near the guy laying on the ground and bleeding from his eyeballs, though.