How would you react to a pandemi?

[Aramazd]

Lock myself in my house and only come out in a Biohazard suit. I will probably just go on with life. I doubt it will be bad. Remember SARS I remember how the media was saying how it would be a huge pandemic.

 

[Perfection]

The best way to survive is to already have genetic immunity, which I guarentee, in a population of 6 billion+, a significant number of people have.

See, the trick is to fire off about 5 different pandemics at once. The rest is just mop up work.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Civilization survived the 1918 pandemic that killed 20MM. It survived WW 2 that killed 50MM. I'm pretty sure we would survive another pandemic even if it killed 100MM.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

The best way to survive is to already have genetic immunity, which I guarentee, in a population of 6 billion+, a significant number of people have.

Sounds easy... but I don't see an impossibility of having high casualty rates, if the worst happened. Didn't the Black death wipe out entire populations on some places?
I don't think I would sit still in this city if I found out that country after country collapsed because of all dead.

Remember SARS I remember how the media was saying how it would be a huge pandemic.

That's why you shouldn't 'cry wolf', a pandemi could happen, I don't think this bird-flu will lead to one, but you never know for sure.

 

[Perfection]

Civilization survived the 1918 pandemic that killed 20MM. It survived WW 2 that killed 50MM. I'm pretty sure we would survive another pandemic even if it killed 100MM.

We're not talking about no ordinary pandemic. We're talking about the superapocolypticuberdeathgigapandemic. It's really just a hypothetical dealie. But it's amusing to post about.

 

[Nobody]

Eh it will never get to new zealand

 

[Winner]

Eh it will never get to new zealand

Well, you know, birds can fly

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Are we talking about a solanum type virus? In that case, the best thing to do is to head for a large wal mart (not one in a mall complex, but one in an independent structure) with a dozen or so people who are competent with firearms. When you get there, lock all the doors and the exits, and then proceed to barricade the front exit. Bricking or cementing works best, but anything will do. A temporary measure (boarding them up with wood and nails) will be okay but just make sure not to let it become permanent. Once you've completed your fortifications, just sit tight and try to get help from the military as soon as possible. Monitor your fortifications daily to make sure they have not moved or been damaged by the hordes that are probably outside.

A wal mart is perfect because it contains everything you might need, but in particularly plenty of two things: firearms and ammunition, and food and water. Hundreds of thousands of rounds, and enough non-perishable food and water to last a dozen people years. Most wal marts have skylights, so if or when the local power grid goes offline for good, you won't have to worry about lighting in the daytime.

If you're in a small enough town, you can just head to the roof and start picking off the infected one by one and still have plenty of ammunition should any manage to get inside. And remember, if you decide to let survivors in, be absolutely certain that none of them are infected, and if they are, kill them immediately. Solanum isn't airborne, but it can be transmitted through the water supplies, not just by bites.

Of course, this is only really relevant for a class 4 outbreak.

 

[Winner]

I am afraid the firearms aren't that easy accessible where I live

I'll go for the bunkers. I remember some of the underground corridors were sealed, but I know for sure there are other rooms on the other side of the blocks.

Maybe the Russians forgot some of their equipment there? I heard they left in hurry and sometimes, they've left many firearms, explosives, even traces of chemical weapons.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

It's okay if they're not accessable, because you can kill someone infected with solanum just by piercing the skull somehow. Firearms are best, but there are other ways. In any event, just wait for a local military base to be overrun, and then head there to loot some firearms, but since you don't have any already, be EXTREMELY careful to either avoid detected by the infected, or ensure the ability to outrun them (which shouldn't be too difficult provided you have a car or truck of some kind).

 

[Winner]

It's okay if they're not accessable, because you can kill someone infected with solanum just by piercing the skull somehow. Firearms are best, but there are other ways. In any event, just wait for a local military base to be overrun, and then head there to loot some firearms, but since you don't have any already, be EXTREMELY careful to either avoid detected by the infected, or ensure the ability to outrun them (which shouldn't be too difficult provided you have a car or truck of some kind).

I'll hide in the bunkers in the woods. Hope I'll have my own gun in that time. The supplies will be already there, I'll bring just the conserved food with me.

Not many people know, where the barracks are, even the locals never heard about it (the good thing about the communist paranoia ). There is a large training area nearby, full of bunkers, trenches and abandoned shooting-ranges. Plenty of space to hide.

I'll take the radio receiver to check out, how is the civilisation going. If there is just a static, I'll check the villages in the vicinity, find out if there is someone alive there. Then I'll decide what to do next

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Yes, it's good to go to a place as remote as possible in the event of a serious class 4 solanum outbreak. Those infected tend to assemble in areas of familarity to them (schools, churches, malls, etc), so a bunker in the woods, provided you can stock it with enough weapons, ammunition, food, and water would be an ideal choice. Of course, the thing to remember is that you MUST have others with you, because no matter where you are, in the event of a class 4 outbreak, you will die if you are alone.

It doesn't matter how easy it is to hide, because it doesn't matter if those infected know where you are or not. It matters if they can get to you. If you hide and leave entrances and exits accessable, no matter how remote, eventually they will get through it, and to you. You MUST barricade yourself in with concrete, wood, bricks, whatever you can find that will build a strong fortification. Take no chances.

It's good to have a vehicle sufficiently protected to be able to make supply runs if needed too. Again, that's why the wal mart idea is the best, because there will be enough supplies to last years and years for a small number of people.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

At last that would be an occasion to test my acquired chemistry skills. (explosives, poisons, fertilisers, metallurgy,...)

Really, I only took chemistry at university because for some reason I think I will end up in a post-apocalyptic world somewhen in the near future. (that and because of the fancy coloured liquids)

 

[Scuffer]

Yea, but you're counting on a nice and cosy pandemi, I'm talking worst-case scenario... It could happen, not very likely but it could... that people start dying like flies, 90% dead in some country a bit away, but with a few days incubation, there's a large chance the decease already has reached your country.

Then I'd crack open some beers, open up the morphine and die smiling!

I don't like the look of all those post-disaster worlds. Far too many Mel Gibson's and Kevin Costner's around. Plus lots of men with horrible beards and terrible dress sense drinking fermented catcus juice from a bucket.

 

[Stapel]

I understand these theories are born, due to 60 people dying of some flu in South-East-Asia.

60.........

While typing this, probably another 60 died in traffic accidents or whatever....

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

The solanum virus is far deadlier than any avian flu virus. The thread starter was not talking about any one type of disease or virus, any such infection that managed to kill a huge number of people.

 

[Che Guava]

Hmmm..tell my boss I'm not coming in today and play civ?

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I understand these theories are born, due to 60 people dying of some flu in South-East-Asia.

... It's a what if scenario... It could happen, what would you do..? One could argue about the risk of dying in a car accident - you've heard of people dying in caraccidents but also the black death in the middle ages. It could happen to oneself and today, hopefully not though.

The solanum virus is far deadlier than any avian flu virus. The thread starter was not talking about any one type of disease or virus, any such infection that managed to kill a huge number of people.

I assume you're talking zombies now... from Dawn of the Dead perhaps?! I haven't seen many zombiefilms so this Solanum category 4 outbreak is pretty much lost on me. Either way the scenario doesn't seem to far off. A barricated Walmart sounds like a place where one could survive a long time, if one would risk being there with a group of other possibly ill people.

@Winner: I see you've already scouted the area and prepared a shelter during the pandemi all you have to do now is to find some old Soviet landmines and you should be all right.

 

[IglooDame]

Yes, it's good to go to a place as remote as possible in the event of a serious class 4 solanum outbreak. Those infected tend to assemble in areas of familarity to them (schools, churches, malls, etc), so a bunker in the woods, provided you can stock it with enough weapons, ammunition, food, and water would be an ideal choice. Of course, the thing to remember is that you MUST have others with you, because no matter where you are, in the event of a class 4 outbreak, you will die if you are alone.

Ummm... I don't get the last part.

On the other hand, I personally won't need to hide out in a Wal-mart, once I buy a house in a couple months.

 

[Scuffer]

I thought Solanum the latin name for potatos and the like?