The Plague Ward

[Smitty-48]

People are dying of bacterial infections all day everyday in America, it's one the biggest vectors for mortality, if you're old, or you're seriously injured, or your immune system is weak, the bacteria can get you and get you fast, and you don't have to go to Madagascar, it's all around you, right now.

[SuburbanFarmer]

This sort of bacteria is everywhere, for example, when troops get shot in places like Afghanistan or Somalia? If you get them past the casevac and trauma aid stage, the biggest threat then is the bacteria they picked up on the ground, guy's get all the way back to Landstuhl in Germany, and they're fine, but then the bacteria runs amok in their blood streams and they die from that, and it happens fast.

I’m not struggling with the concept of bacterial infection. I’m wondering why a certain strain suddenly had the power to wipe out 1/3 of Europe, and whether we’re more immune now.

We are generally in better shape and better fed now.
Bodies from plague pits found recently during the construction of Crossrail in London showed signs of malnutrition and disease. The population was weak and more susceptible to infection.

Then they should have been dying off all along, not in a sudden firestorm that destroyed 33% within a few years.

[Smitty-48]

Then they should have been dying off all along, not in a sudden firestorm that destroyed 33% within a few years.

They had the plague before the middle ages, the Romans had plague outbreaks as well, it's been around the whole time, and the lethality for bacterial infection is very high, whether in ancient Rome, or to this day.

Over a hundred thousand years of human prehistory, no doubt there were many black deaths which simply didn't make it to the internet back then.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Then they should have been dying off all along, not in a sudden firestorm that destroyed 33% within a few years.

They had the plague before the middle ages, the Romans had plague outbreaks as well, it's been around the whole time, and the lethality for bacterial infection is very high, whether in ancient Rome, or to this day.

Over a hundred thousand years of human prehistory, no doubt there were many black deaths which simply didn't make the internet back then.

Funny how that one is still known by every modern human, 5 centuries later, and not the other ones then, huh?

I believe Spanish Flu is the only other pandemic to reach that status, in 6,000 years, but Smitty says 'meh', so I guess it's just average.

[Smitty-48]

You know what's changed? You have, the internet has turned you into a nation of SIFCLF's, and then it just feeds on itself, the real disease here, is a disease of the mind; Sky Is Falling Chicken Little Faggot-itis. /shrugs

[SuburbanFarmer]

You know what's changed? You have, the internet has turned you into a nation of SIFCLF's, and then it just feeds on itself, the real disease here, is a disease of the mind; Sky Is Falling Chicken Little Faggot-itis. /shrugs

Yes, comrade. 100 million is just a statistic.

[Smitty-48]

You know what's changed? You have, the internet has turned you into a nation of SIFCLF's, and then it just feeds on itself, the real disease here, is a disease of the mind; Sky Is Falling Chicken Little Faggot-itis. /shrugs

Yes, comrade. 100 million is just a statistic.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Kinda hard to convince you to care about humanity, at this point.. Roll on, big fella. I got littl'ns to protect.

[Smitty-48]

Kinda hard to convince you to care about humanity, at this point.. Roll on, big fella. I got littl'ns to protect.

Ah yes, SIFCLF-itis, with Soccer Mom-itis too, that's a bad combo, I don't think there's a cure for that, triage assessment; you're Priority 4; moving on. <takes marker, writes large "4" on head, moves on to next casualty>

[SuburbanFarmer]

Kinda hard to convince you to care about humanity, at this point.. Roll on, big fella. I got littl'ns to protect.

Ah yes, SIFCLF-itis, with Soccer Mom-itis too, that's a bad combo, I don't think there's a cure for that, triage assessment; you're Priority 4; moving on. <takes marker, writes large "4" on head, moves on to next casualty>

:shakes head: just another crazy-ass Boomer, son. Keep walking, and don't engage him.