How Fast a Disease Can Spread In Modern Times

[Jazz Spazz]

They'd probably get it to fly into a quarantined Hangar, I doubt they'd bring down the plane.

I was thinking the same thing, trouble would be finding an isolated place to do something like that.

 

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That was actually incorporateds in the the movie World War Z and was an interesting concept to me. Can you imagine the breakdown in society from even a mortality rate in the 20% range? People would refuse to go out, kids kept home from school, people from work... Everything would stop moving as the death toll rose.

If I'm not mistaken, the Black Plague wiped out about 1/3rd of the population around the Mediterranean (I'm not sure of the rates across the silk routes and China, but I think it was similar).

And, yeah, the legacy of the plague is vast. A few cultural critics have astutely pointed out that the event doesn't get enough credit as a force that shaped (and continues to shape) the West. As somebody who looked deeply into the history of Western medicine, I can attest to the plague's deep and continual influence in our lives.

 

[Stoked]

I was thinking the same thing, trouble would be finding an isolated place to do something like that.

I wouldn't think so. They'd have the plane land and park inan empty hanger. They would prevent anyone from leaving ht eplane or even opening the door. Then they would properly quarentine the hanger with airtight suits, seals...

@Fixed Oh yeah it is always about how many died. Not the fear of contracting the disease and the lengths people went to avoid it. How they avoided it and how it broke down the fuctionality of the society.