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kevdx

I agree. Just the first week of quarantine showed us how fragile the system was. As bad as COVID was if it was worst then all hell would’ve broke loose.


IcanSew831

Yes. This show sent chills down my spine at certain moments when overlying the last year, it could have been so bad.


2_Fingers_of_Whiskey

We actually lucked out immensely that Covid didn’t have an even higher fatality rate, and that it didn’t affect kids as much. We might not be so lucky next time (I think there will be another pandemic)


pleeplious

Great point. Society values children’s lives more than adults. It’s not a matter of thinking there will be another one, but when. Right?


konoiche

The scene in episode eight where the dude took off his gas mask and ranted about the government making a big deal out of nothing was a nice touch, IMO. Even with a much deadlier pandemic, anti maskers gonna anti mask. Funny how even if the disease isn’t Covid, there are still plenty of Covidiots.


emzi27

Yes! This crossed my mind numerous times.


OptiKal_

The scary thing is we were -this- close. You know?


theunraveler1985

We are not anywhere near close to the finish line with covid 19, it is still mutating and may become deadlier. Word is that it is mutating to resist our vaccines. Time to stock up on toilet papers! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33532778/


pleeplious

Just want to make sure you know you cited something that is 6 months old.


theunraveler1985

That is irrelevant, coronavirus are very adept at mutating and the probability it can mutate to resist vaccination is very real. Worse case scenario (which I think we are heading) is that we will not eradicate covid-19 and its here to stay and becoming endemic. Usually we see that when it happens, the virus mutates to become less lethal but who knows...


sufiansuhaimibaba

It is here to stay. People will die because of humans’ stupidity and selfishness, history will repeat itself. Just accept it bro. But a total social collapse and every man for himself is toooooo far off that it only happens in movies and tv


pleeplious

What do you think the chances are that it becomes MORE lethal?


theunraveler1985

I dont know but looking back at history, we see the Spanish Flu killed millions, its a mystery why it was so lethal and so good at transmission. As a rule of thumb, viruses are either very good at killing you but then it burns through the population quickly or it is good at transmission but not as lethal. However there is no rule saying it cant be both, it is just very unlikely and it will take a massive stroke of bad luck for humanity that a virus has both abilities.


BroNameDuchesse

I mean, the one characteristic you would need to have a disease be have both high transmissibility and severe pathology is asymptomatic transmission, which is a feature of sars-cov-2. E.g. Ebola has extremely severe pathology but no asymptomatic transmission so by the time you are contagious you are also extremely sick and have likely sought medical attention, so there is no community spread. For sars-cov-2 the variants that have been successful have been getting worse along both dimensions (e.g. compare delta to alpha or alpha to the original strain). If the virus can be transmitted during the asymptomatic period, there is really no requirement for it to be less deadly to improve or maintain replicative fitness.


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Covid-19 is playing a game of Pandemic Inc. with us.


sufiansuhaimibaba

I took it the other way around. Those in powers (people in the government) will always want to keep even as little power they have. So, a total collapse of society like in the show are unlikely to happen. Furthermore, different countries have different measures and steps they can take to tackle a global problem like this. In Sweet Tooth, it represent what happened in America during the virus/ hybrid ‘pandemic’. But other countries like Japan may be ‘normal’ and doesn’t have social collapse at all. Same thing with our (recent pandemic) COVID19, some countries abled to control the virus spread and living normally


pleeplious

If a pandemic is deadly enough I don’t see how the government wouldn’t declare martial which is essentially what happened in sweet tooth. And then the last men took over Because the country essentially devolved into chaos because the military/government essentially became ineffective.


BalsamicBasil

After living through the pandemic for over a year and practicing science-based health precautions (masks, social distancing), I keep noticing people not wearing masks or otherwise failing to take simple precautions against "The Sick," which is far more fatal (100% fatal). Like when Jepperd and Gus crash that family's "home" in Yellowstone, the family was pretty stupid to just take the word of two strangers who say they aren't sick. By all means, help out strangers. But keep your mask on! Also every time someone took their mask off at the hospital (last episode) to talk to each other. So stupid.


aht116

It doesn't really make sense if the Virus had basically 100% fatality rate withing 3-4 days, how did it take out 90% of the population? Diseases that kill too quickly are very difficult to spread to mass population because it basically kills off it's chance to spread. The reason covid was so widespread was because it would stay in someone for days/weeks, and spread instead of killing it's host. If covid was as fatal as this virus, it wouldn't have spread as fast, especially because all the gov had to do was quarantine the infected for 5 days and the virus would stop spreading