The Plague Ward

[Smitty-48]

The exotic nature of viruses like SARS, while more lethal at the tactical level, actually makes them less lethal at the strategic level, the sheer amount bacteria in the environment, makes it much more strategically lethal if you get a super strain, vaslty more vectors, much more difficult to contain.

You don't need a super-strain really, you just need a quick way to distribute it. The best way really is just going in and out of the subway, train stations, and airports and you'll have the world infected in less than a week if it's not caught fast enough.

Well, slowly but surely, ab resistant staff and strep are getting more resistant all the time, the more it is exposed to ab, the tougher the bacteria become against ab, when it becomes fully resistant to ab, then it's a super strain, you have no weapon against it, it's everpresent everywhere, it incubates and mass reproduces with ease, and so spreads like wildfire unabated.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I’m still not convinced that any bacteria could be that virulent, or contagious. It’s all about viruses.

Just because the word virus sounds more virulent than bacteria to the layman, that doesn't mean that is actually the case.
/shrugs

Don't know who told you it's all about the viruses, but you've been mislead.

Read your first sentence again, slowly.

[The Conservative]

The exotic nature of viruses like SARS, while more lethal at the tactical level, actually makes them less lethal at the strategic level, the sheer amount bacteria in the environment, makes it much more strategically lethal if you get a super strain, vaslty more vectors, much more difficult to contain.

You don't need a super-strain really, you just need a quick way to distribute it. The best way really is just going in and out of the subway, train stations, and airports and you'll have the world infected in less than a week if it's not caught fast enough.

Well, slowly but surely, ab resistant staff and strep are getting more resistant all the time, the more it is exposed to ab, the tougher the bacteria become against ab, when it becomes fully resistant to ab, then it's a super strain, you have no weapon against it, it's everpresent everywhere, it incubates and mass reproduces with ease, and so spreads like wildfire unabated.

True, but there are people that have to have a natural resistance to it yes?

[StCapps]

The exotic nature of viruses like SARS, while more lethal at the tactical level, actually makes them less lethal at the strategic level, the sheer amount bacteria in the environment, makes it much more strategically lethal if you get a super strain, vaslty more vectors, much more difficult to contain.

You don't need a super-strain really, you just need a quick way to distribute it. The best way really is just going in and out of the subway, train stations, and airports and you'll have the world infected in less than a week if it's not caught fast enough.

Well, slowly but surely, ab resistant staff and strep are getting more resistant all the time, the more it is exposed to ab, the tougher the bacteria become against ab, when it becomes fully resistant to ab, then it's a super strain, you have no weapon against it, it's everpresent everywhere, it incubates and mass reproduces with ease, and so spreads like wildfire unabated.

Yeah the dangerous super bugs are bacteria, not viruses, I don't know who told Grumpy otherwise, but whoever it was, they don't know what they are talking about. He thinks viruses are worse because they share the first four letters with the word virulent, he's that uninformed.

[Smitty-48]

SARS? They had that contained in a matter of days. MRSA? Running amok, the more they fight it, the stronger it gets, and the weaker the ab becomes as a countermeasure.

It's all about vectors, a virus like SARS requires human to human contact to spread, bacteria like MRSA is everywhere, doesn't need human to human contact to spread, it operates in the enviroment without needing a carrier.

[StCapps]

SARS? They had that contained in a matter of days. MRSA? Running amok, the more they fight it, the stronger it gets, and the weaker the ab becomes as a countermeasure.

SARS sounds like a scarier acronym to the layman though, and the media shined the spotlight on the SARS outbreak than they have on MRSA, so naturally the uninformed GrumpyCatFace thinks viruses in general are scarier than bacteria, because he knows nothing about microbiology, heard some scary news reports about viruses and thinks one word sounds scarier than other, so it must actually be scarier.

[The Conservative]

SARS? They had that contained in a matter of days. MRSA? Running amok, the more they fight it, the stronger it gets, and the weaker the ab becomes as a countermeasure.

It's all about vectors, a virus like SARS requires human to human contact to spread, bacteria like MRSA is everywhere, doesn't need human to human contact to spread.

We could always kill it with fire.

[SuburbanFarmer]

You don't need a super-strain really, you just need a quick way to distribute it. The best way really is just going in and out of the subway, train stations, and airports and you'll have the world infected in less than a week if it's not caught fast enough.

Well, slowly but surely, ab resistant staff and strep are getting more resistant all the time, the more it is exposed to ab, the tougher the bacteria become against ab, when it becomes fully resistant to ab, then it's a super strain, you have no weapon against it, it's everpresent everywhere, it incubates and mass reproduces with ease, and so spreads like wildfire unabated.

Yeah the dangerous super bugs are bacteria, not viruses, I don't know who told Grumpy otherwise, but whoever it was, they don't know what they are talking about. He thinks viruses are worse because they share the first four letters with the word virulent, he's that uninformed.

Hardly. But that post was goddamned funny.

The problem would be contagion. Unless you get an infected water supply, with a water-stable bacterium, you’re simply not going to spread it widely. Bacteria can’t really go airborne, to my knowledge, and they can’t usually break the skin barrier.

[Smitty-48]

SARS? They had that contained in a matter of days. MRSA? Running amok, the more they fight it, the stronger it gets, and the weaker the ab becomes as a countermeasure.

SARS sounds like a scarier acronym to the layman though, and the media shined the spotlight on it as a result, so naturally the uninformed GrumpyCatFace thinks viruses in general are scarier than bacteria, because he knows nothing about microbiology and thinks one word sounds scarier, so it must actually be scarier.

Anything that says "Moxicillin Resistant" is the scariest motherfucker of them all.

[StCapps]

Anything that says "Moxicillin Resistant" is the scariest motherfucker of them all.

To the informed, but that sure isn't GrumpyCatFace when it comes to microbiology.