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Northerner said:
I've wondered over the years how much better the world would be if there was a plague that wiped out 50% of the global population. I wouldn't like to be part of the half that died, but having a much lower population would probably make this planet a much better place.

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viraldrome said:
Those little fuckers need to stop eating monkey brains and tiger cocks. It's like they are trying to be edge lords with their fucked up cuisine and now look where it got them. Who the fuck eats a porcupine? People who eat a civet cat deserve to get some funky disease. But if I say anything I'm culturally insensitive and racist.

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It's not so much insensitive/racist (well, actually, it probably is.) It's mostly that it's not very insightful. The problem with these viruses has to do with the combination of intensive poultry farming (although we get the same issues with cattle) and intensive human/animal contact. In that sense, China is indeed different from the US and Europe; we also have the risk factor of hyper-intensive farming, but human/animal contact is more limited over here. Nevertheless, putting it down to dietary habits of the Chinese is rather far-fetched; or, put differently: the dietary habits of the Chinese are not necessarily more risky than those in the West with all our KFC buckets flying around. It's not so much the food itself; it's the supply chain behind it that is the problem. And our supply chain is perhaps only marginally better than theirs.

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Amanita86 said:
I think you have a facility near you that houses all sorts of really fucked up viruses and whatever you classify all that stuff as.  They I guess do studies on it and try to think up ways of containing outbreaks.  But it’s all right there, bad, bad shit bruh.  It made me think you know, what if the power goes out.

Anyways I can’t remember what it’s called but dude was on a radio station talking about what they do there and it was massively concerning that all that shit was just in a building over there.

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ballsalsa said:
You should read "The Stand".
Its premised on the power going out at a facility like that (or close enough)

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viraldrome said:
Disagree. Some things should not be eaten. For instance AIDS came from bushmeat, don't eat monkies. SARS, according to that video was traced back to Civet cats.

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It goes without saying that poultry farming should be highly controlled and that chickens and pigs will almost certainly be the source of future flu outbreaks. Having a a full on farm in your backyard of a city is retarded. They will change their ways when the world bans all their citizens from travel because of some funky new pandemic. I don't see the next one coming from dirty KFC's

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tyrannicalrex said:
The movie was OK, but it is hard to put all that was in the book in a 1.5-2.5 hour movie. It's hard to sit through anything more than that for me anyway.

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tyrannicalrex said:
The movie was OK, but it is hard to put all that was in the book in a 1.5-2.5 hour movie. It's hard to sit through anything more than that for me anyway.

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It wasn’t a movie. It was a miniseries. Total 6 hours.

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Northerner said:
I've wondered over the years how much better the world would be if there was a plague that wiped out 50% of the global population. I wouldn't like to be part of the half that died, but having a much lower population would probably make this planet a much better place.

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With all the looting, anarchy, and violence?

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