I dunno, I feel like this might be the one case where its collectively agreed that the nuclear taboo must be broken
Like leveling everything on a radius within and around the isle to ensure no one escapes
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Like leveling everything on a radius within and around the isle to ensure no one escapes
I wouldn't fault the Chinese or Americans if they were to just nuke infected areas tbh. It's far more preferable to get vaporized instantly as opposed to getting captured by the infected and being subjected to their... creativities. Though I do think worldwide public opinion won't allow Taiwan to get subjected to a nuclear holocaust, at first. Their opinion may change as events proceed. 😛
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Agreed
Indeed, though even if the western public doesnt agree its not like either China or North Korea would be paying attention to their concerns
The logic being "vaporise first apologise later"
It would be quite ironic for China to save the world from such an infection only for the United States to decide that it is a hoax to justify its aggressiveness and attack China in defense of the infected.
I think these chemicals dont release electromagnetic pulses, which would damage anything electronic(like a submarine) trying to escape
Plus leaving the corpses just rotting there by throwing more chemicals at them is hardly more effective at disease control than literally desintegrating everything thats contamined
Then again I have no idea wheter the winds from the blasts could carry the virus around, so lose-lose scenario really
The vibes it gave me was that the Empire was going to fall after Maximus's death and was already on the decline when Aurelius passed away, with the last hope being Maximus succeeding him as Emperor and restoring the power of the Senate, which was lost when Commodus usurped him
Ursula Vernon's What Moves the Dead could make for an interesting eighteenth-century timeline if the protagonists had failed to poison the Tarn.
There's a species of parasitic fungi living in the water of the Tarn, a single isolated lake in eastern europe. It's unclear if the fungi can be transplanted to any other bodies of water. Anything that drowns in the Tarn, leaving a body largely intact but without an active immune system to repel invasion gets assimilated by the fungi and becomes a sort of undead meat puppet controlled by the sentient collective consciousness of the fungi. Said consciousness is actively trying to assimilate everything and is rapidly learning from its hosts, going from simply luring in predatory animals by getting them to chase puppeteered prey into the water to an Invasion Of The Body Snatchers gambit with infected humans writing letters inviting their uninfected friends then murdering them and throwing the bodies in the Tarn.
This sounds like an awesome premise for an Illuminati-talen-over-by-fungi scenario where human arrogance leads to the Tarn spreading into the world and subsuming the secret society from within to achieve its goals.
This was my initial reaction after finishing the movie.
Either nukes or neutron bombs...maybe both from the US and the PRC so no one side can press claims?
That had to be one of the bleakest movies I have ever seen and I doubt I will ever want to watch it again.
I legit had to pause it and take a break after getting to the "restrained in a wheelchair" scene. A thoroughly disturbing movie, but one I highly enjoyed.
But yeah, if they resort to the nuclear option, I'd imagine both would do it. And like a commenter said above, chemical weapons could also be utilized to preserve infrastructure while also killing off the infected easily.
Just used aerosolized opiates like the Russian special forces used to deal with the Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis and don't even have to worry about antidotes for anyone, with tactically placed chemical agent strikes preferably using ones that have a high impact/quick degradation capacity, whichever those may be, were the infected still able to think like regular humans? or would incapacitating but not outright totally killing them be enough to make sure none of them try getting out by whatever means they could attempt?
I ask because incapacitating agents from what little of chemistry and reading stuff about chemical weapons knowledge I'm aware those are a lot less toxic to clean up but used in a more potent form to straight up kill the infected ignoring the stipulations of human decency if you could blast large populations with a giant coordinated bombing run and tie down as many infected as possible where they'd just die in situ and if not be dead not be moving because they've been drenched in blister agents and the worst kind of tear gas and shit :0
I haven't watched the movie, but ARE the infected even smart enough to use antidotes?
And, like even if they DO preserve their old Inteligence, like... I don't know jack shit about medicine, so if I was sprayed with some bioweapon i'm pretty sure if I don't know which one of the 40 pill packs in my medicine closet is the cure I am mostly sure that my Indected Counterpart won't either.
Then I think that it could be pulled off without completely nuking Taiwan, so, yay? Lol
If the antidote completely neutralises the virus and brings everyone back to normal, yeah
Otherwise I think they still could spread the virus even if they were themselves healed and if someone didnt get healed due to not breathing the antidote by chance or due to a mutation in the virus they still could be very dangerous and try to spread it on purpose
Deep impact (1998) has millions of people on the east coast as well as Europe and Africa being killed in a tidal wave caused by a comet a mile wide. Which reached as far inland as the Ohio and the Tennessee valleys and wiped out every major city as far north as Boston and as far south as Atlanta. America will never fully come back from that or even be a super power anymore,surely.
Same thought
If the country doesnt break up it'll still have the resources to be a great/super power by default, but it would take a century or two to get their first together and do the catching up