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unnonexistence · 15 days ago

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why do so many sci fi writers feel the need to make their fictional pandemic the Worst Disease Ever? you do not need a 95% mortality rate. you do not need half the world population to be infected within a week. you do not need to emphasize how much worse it is than the 1919 flu. it can be scary anyway i promise you

#personal #bookposting #got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning so im being mean & a hater but. goddd #75% of polio cases were asymptomatic and less than half a percent of people developed paralysis! it was STILL SCARY #fucking BUBONIC PLAGUE had a mortality rate of like 40%!!!#i mean if you're actually doing something INTERESTING with 'everyone is infected within 2 weeks' or whatever go for it #or like. zombie plague with 95% mortality rate? sure alright. that's zombies for you #but if it's just to make it Scary my eyes are rolling out of my head and down the street #the melodrama!! i dont care i dont caaaaare stop trying to scare me with numbers #im trying to read the lock in prequel about the initial disease outbreak and like. idk about this one lol #part of what i liked about lock in is only like 1% of people infected with the disease get haden's syndrome #which is actually a lot now that ive looked at the polio numbers! but still sounds small. it isnt like 10% or 50% or anything #and it has ENORMOUS social ramifications. which are explored in interesting ways #but now the prequel is like ''the first outbreak killed 400 million people in less than a year!!''#why this. we didn't need that #also the speculation about where the disease came from uuuugh #ooooooh Shocking and Scary conspiracy theories! i am so shocked and scared!#like bro i do not care. i really don't. can we not #uuuuughghhhhh #okay thats all im done being judgemental #for now.

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