I miss when life was science-based ....
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It will be, science is just going to kick the ass of the nonbelievers once again for a decade or two.
It is horrifying that the CDC has a smallpox sample in Atlanta. I hope their security guards are ready to defend it if the human virus stops by to release it.
Sounds like a speedrun strat for one of those pandemic games (e.g. Plague Inc.): allow infection to spread across a huge body of test subjects (chickens) with minimal consequences to your final target (humanity) to maximize mutation opportunities (DNA points) that can be spent on acquiring properties of the perfect bioweapon: airborne, long incubation period, long asymptomatic communicative period, and lethal. Then, make the pathogen's last mutation the ability to infect humans instead of the test subjects, wiping humanity out before they can spin up bioengineering labs to research and develop a cure.
Makes sense if RFK is a eugenics believer, who wants to kill off those he sees to be inferior humans. Kinda matches up with his other comments about not wanting people with chronic disease (as opposed to wanting to cure the chronic diseases)
That was how I played. I don't think I ever stayed far from that formula.
Didn't always win the game because CERTAIN ports or airports would close off quick but man it always killed millions of people.
Because I suppose controlling it and studying it in a controlled environment like a lab would be too hard a notion to conceive for these idiots. Nah, we should let this thing potentially get nastier in a situation that ultimately would be very bad if it did get nastier.
But mah eggs!
Ladies, gentlemen, small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri...
It's been a privilege existing for a time.
"Why contain it? S'cool."
"Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."
Embrace grand father nurgle gifts!
Can RFK Jr please get bird flu? Just him.
Do we have a plant-based chicken substitute?
Yeah. He wants yo make plant based meats illegal.