Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

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Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by cronus » Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:25 pm

Say you knew there was a Great Plague coming in a couple of years. With very high mortality and very infection and contagious with dormancy etc which makes it spread easy like the common cold. How would you go about surviving? Would you seek somewhere isolated and sit it out? or knowing most will die and wanting company in the aftermath try to sit it out isolated in the heart of town? What would you do? Give up?
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Re: Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by Pappa » Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:38 pm

Seek somewhere isolated and sit it out. It'd be a pretty easy one to avoid with the right precautions.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:17 am

Take a LOT of vitamin C. Like, maybe TWO oranges - one after the other!! :tup:
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Post by samphony » Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:28 am

Sit next to Lozzer - he'll catch mine as well. :hehe:
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Re: Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by Audley Strange » Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:50 am

Everyone should head for Seth's. He's got it covered. Sure a couple of us might peg it but chances are we'd overwhelm him. We could make him disease canary. :{D
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Post by SteveB » Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:53 am

I'd recruit a very big mute to carry me around. Tina Turner would be there as well.
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Re: Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by samphony » Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:53 am

Audley Strange wrote:Everyone should head for Seth's. He's got it covered. Sure a couple of us might peg it but chances are we'd overwhelm him. We could make him disease canary. :{D
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Re: Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by DaveDodo007 » Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:54 am

Just keep loads of furry pets and stay where you are even if you are in the middle of an outbreak. Humans are a last resort for fleas, if all your pets die (and the rats) then get the fuck out of there.
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Re: Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by JimC » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:17 am

Vast amounts of neat gin, applied externally and internally...
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Post by Blind groper » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:07 pm

I would buy a yacht, load it with supplies, and be in the middle of the ocean, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest other people (except the half dozen healthy young nubile females I have on board, ready to repopulate. Let no one say I have no concern for my fellow humans!).
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Re: Surviving a Great Plague? Could You? How?

Post by cronus » Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:08 pm

Blind groper wrote:I would buy a yacht, load it with supplies, and be in the middle of the ocean, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest other people (except the half dozen young nublile females I have on board, ready to repopulate).
Noah's hypothesis is strong in this one. :?
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