No need for war when the CDC can simply release a virulent strain of flu with a 50% mortality rate. Given the nature of global transportation, it would be global in days.
Put that in your CT pipe and smoke it, sweetie.
A World Without Work
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Put that in your CT pipe and smoke it, sweetie.
Queen Titania
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No need for war when the CDC can simply release a virulent strain of flu with a 50% mortality rate. Given the nature of global transportation, it would be global in days.
Put that in your CT pipe and smoke it, sweetie.
War makes them rich.
Richer
LeRoy_Was_Here
Senator
Oh? Did I somehow misinterpret your previous remark?
Max: What are the 20% going to do about it? Say "Let them eat cake?"
Sorry, I have not seen your posts on this topic. Perhaps they were before my somewhat recent return to Political Jack. I DO think a Star Trek like universe is possible for the human race, but only if we really want it, and are willing to work towards it.
Of course you do, Titania. My point is that you are viewing the world through a toilet paper tube.
LeRoy_Was_Here
Senator
There is probably some truth to this. But crime will become increasingly more difficult in the future. There will be cameras EVERYWHERE.
War is also chaotic and destructive. A flu epidemic is much more controllable and leaves the infrastructure intact leaving a lot of assets up for grab either for free or pennies on the dollar.
Try taking a bigger world view, dear.
Queen Titania
Senator
It won't make 'em rich. They can't take taxes from dead people. Out of illness - they prolong them to get as much money out of us as they kill us slowly but surely -
Flu is a man made illness- vaccine related.
They love destruction and chaos! lol were have you been --- ah navel gazing, I forgot.
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Ever notice how in poor neighborhoods, people are just sitting around outside? I think there is some sort of connection and/or correlation with that fact and what you posted.
Queen Titania
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Poor urban districts - you won't find that so much in true rural districts. I live in the country with no shops - I rarely go shopping. I do not have a TV, so see few adverts. I am poor by most standards, at the moment, but perfectly content - if I saw 'things' all of the time I know even I would become discontent.
Living squished in between areas of affluence when living yourself in poverty is pure torture - especially when there is nothing to do and nowhere to do it if you wanted too.
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There's no question the country is a better place to be "poor".
LeRoy_Was_Here
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Influenza existed LONG before vaccines were ever invented.....
LeRoy_Was_Here
Senator
Neutron bombs would do the same thing. But we couldn't pass that off as being 'accidental'.
You're looking through that paper tube again, dear. Of course it'll make them rich.
Example: Would you rather inherit a block worth of burned out homes or a block of fine, pristine homes? Which is worth more?
Despite your flawed assertion about the Flu, that only reinforces my scenario.
I thought they loved money. Are you backpedaling because I'm kicking your British ass like Washington kicked Cornwallis' at Yorktown?
Agreed, but remember who you are talking to.
Agreed...nor "natural".
Just so we're clear, I doubt we'll see such a scenario. I was simply throwing some cold water on the CT theories about a Forever War orchestrated by the Joooos.
Queen Titania
Senator
I have been poor in both, and well off in both. ( tapestry of life
) I find that when one has money and lives in the country one will still yearn after things and go out of the way to buy them. If poor you quite happily make do. Even in London poverty in some areas is more comfortable than in others. But yup, on the whole I agree --- Unless young and yearning for adventure, then the country is a tedious frustration.
Queen Titania
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Queen Titania
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You're looking through that paper tube again, dear. Of course it'll make them rich.
Example: Would you rather inherit a block worth of burned out homes or a block of fine, pristine homes? Which is worth more?
Despite your flawed assertion about the Flu, that only reinforces my scenario.
I thought they loved money. Are you backpedaling because I'm kicking your British ass like Washington kicked Cornwallis' at Yorktown?
Ummm. Wake up you are dreaming!
Yes. You didn't see it was a question versus a flat statement as you asserted.
As for Star Trek economy, I responded to you in a previous thread covering similar subjects. You didn't reply:
LeRoy_Was_Here
Senator
Ah. Before you edited your remark, you were asking me to "Prove it". Proof is difficult to come by in such cases, but there is a WEALTH of evidence that influenza pandemics have been with us for a LONG time:
The symptoms of human influenza were clearly described by Hippocrates roughly 2,400 years ago.[164][165] Although the virus seems to have caused epidemics throughout human history, historical data on influenza are difficult to interpret, because the symptoms can be similar to those of other respiratory diseases.[166][167] The disease may have spread from Europe to the Americas as early as the European colonization of the Americas; since almost the entire indigenous population of the Antilles was killed by an epidemic resembling influenza that broke out in 1493, after the arrival of Christopher Columbus.[168][169]
The first convincing record of an influenza pandemic was of an outbreak in 1580, which began in Russia and spread to Europe via Africa. In Rome, over 8,000 people were killed, and several Spanish cities were almost wiped out. Pandemics continued sporadically throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, with the pandemic of 1830–1833 being particularly widespread; it infected approximately a quarter of the people exposed.
LeRoy: Except for that last pandemic, all of these took place long before the invention of vaccines in the late 18th century. I would also recommend reading Plagues and Peoples by the eminent University of Chicago historian William McNeil. It is, I think, the best of several books on the history of plagues and epidemics that have had an outsized effect on history.....
LeRoy_Was_Here
Senator
OK, gotcha. I HOPE that is NOT how the 20% would respond. They would likely meet the same unhappy fate as Marie Antoinette.....
