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A Bird Flu RP?
Topic Started: Mar 29 2006, 05:01 PM (277 Views)
Quaon
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Anyone want to start a bird flu pandemic in Asia?
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New Harumf
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It's already been done, in RL!!
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East Anarx
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Don't bother asking people whether they want to or not. Did the bird flu politely ask China if they wanted a bird flu pandemic before starting to kill thousands of innocent people? No it didn't. Did it happen anyways? Yes... Just go for it man!
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Catholic Europe
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Do ask because other players should not have to RP something that they do not want to RP.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Do I have a nation in Asia? Yes.
Am I studing Avian Flu for University? Yes.

Do I want to have bird flu in Asia? Hell no!

It's a great idea, in theory, but the blinding scientific innaccuracies that will be shown by all the nations taking part will make me want to gouge out my own eyes and then bite off my own fingers.

If people are willing to research this a hell of a lot more than we did for the Red Death - then we can go nuts. I don't mind sacrificing realism for the sake of telling a good story, but we basically magicked up the Red Death from our own imagination and that gave us a lot of creative liscence. H5N1 is very real and very well defined - we have a much narrower creative margin if we expect people to suspend disbelief.

That said if you just wanna kill off a load of birds and panick the international community then be my guest.
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Quaon
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Nag Ehgoeg
Mar 30 2006, 05:12 AM
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Do I have a nation in Asia? Yes.
Am I studing Avian Flu for University? Yes.

Do I want to have bird flu in Asia? Hell no!

It's a great idea, in theory, but the blinding scientific innaccuracies that will be shown by all the nations taking part will make me want to gouge out my own eyes and then bite off my own fingers.

If people are willing to research this a hell of a lot more than we did for the Red Death - then we can go nuts. I don't mind sacrificing realism for the sake of telling a good story, but we basically magicked up the Red Death from our own imagination and that gave us a lot of creative liscence. H5N1 is very real and very well defined - we have a much narrower creative margin if we expect people to suspend disbelief.

That said if you just wanna kill off a load of birds and panick the international community then be my guest.

That's what I was aiming for. Bird Flu in Chirondom that doesn't really hit humans unless the real one does...hmmm, maybe not the best idea...
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Nag Ehgoeg
Mar 30 2006, 05:12 AM
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Do I have a nation in Asia? Yes.
Am I studing Avian Flu for University? Yes.

Do I want to have bird flu in Asia? Hell no!

It's a great idea, in theory, but the blinding scientific innaccuracies that will be shown by all the nations taking part will make me want to gouge out my own eyes and then bite off my own fingers.

If people are willing to research this a hell of a lot more than we did for the Red Death - then we can go nuts. I don't mind sacrificing realism for the sake of telling a good story, but we basically magicked up the Red Death from our own imagination and that gave us a lot of creative liscence. H5N1 is very real and very well defined - we have a much narrower creative margin if we expect people to suspend disbelief.

That said if you just wanna kill off a load of birds and panick the international community then be my guest.

Ah, good. Someone who is studying bird flu that has no vested interest in panicking the general public! How novel.

So, just how dangerous can this become? I mean, it is the flu, right? So, our natural immune systems should fight it off, right? And you almost have to sleep and live in bird filth to get it right now, right? So are we being panicked for no good reason?
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Nag Ehgoeg
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I've been hearing about H5N1 since I started 6th Form - that's what, 3 years ago.

Frankly it's commonly thought that it won't spread to humans. If it does, the more it spreads, the less dangerous it'll become.

So no, there's no reason to panick.

Bird Flu killing thousands - or even hundreds - of people is much less likely than Yellow Stone Park errupting or a metorite hitting us and wiping out all life.

However, the potential exists for it to kill arround two billion people - worst case senairo.

But we already have a vaccine for birds, we believe we have a working vaccine for humans. If it mutated to infect humans, every drugs lab in the world would immediately try to modify the vaccines we have to stop bird flu dead in it's tracks - because it's been hyped and so is highly valuable.

So I really wouldn't worry or care unless you plan to move to a poor country to handle birds.
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New Harumf
Mar 30 2006, 10:54 AM
Nag Ehgoeg
Mar 30 2006, 05:12 AM
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Do I have a nation in Asia? Yes.
Am I studing Avian Flu for University? Yes.

Do I want to have bird flu in Asia? Hell no!

It's a great idea, in theory, but the blinding scientific innaccuracies that will be shown by all the nations taking part will make me want to gouge out my own eyes and then bite off my own fingers.

If people are willing to research this a hell of a lot more than we did for the Red Death - then we can go nuts. I don't mind sacrificing realism for the sake of telling a good story, but we basically magicked up the Red Death from our own imagination and that gave us a lot of creative liscence. H5N1 is very real and very well defined - we have a much narrower creative margin if we expect people to suspend disbelief.

That said if you just wanna kill off a load of birds and panick the international community then be my guest.

Ah, good. Someone who is studying bird flu that has no vested interest in panicking the general public! How novel.

So, just how dangerous can this become? I mean, it is the flu, right? So, our natural immune systems should fight it off, right? And you almost have to sleep and live in bird filth to get it right now, right? So are we being panicked for no good reason?

It's not likely to hit humans, but from what I read, our immune system wouldn't do a damn. It's an animal disease. We have no defence against that. And, actually, a man in Egypt got the bird flu, so it is possible for it to spread to humans. I'm glad I'm in America. We've got an ocean protecting us from it if it actually does anything (Oh God...our troops are even more doomed if it hits).
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Quaon
Mar 30 2006, 02:34 PM
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Mar 30 2006, 10:54 AM
Nag Ehgoeg
Mar 30 2006, 05:12 AM
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Do I have a nation in Asia? Yes.
Am I studing Avian Flu for University? Yes.

Do I want to have bird flu in Asia? Hell no!

It's a great idea, in theory, but the blinding scientific innaccuracies that will be shown by all the nations taking part will make me want to gouge out my own eyes and then bite off my own fingers.

If people are willing to research this a hell of a lot more than we did for the Red Death - then we can go nuts. I don't mind sacrificing realism for the sake of telling a good story, but we basically magicked up the Red Death from our own imagination and that gave us a lot of creative liscence. H5N1 is very real and very well defined - we have a much narrower creative margin if we expect people to suspend disbelief.

That said if you just wanna kill off a load of birds and panick the international community then be my guest.

Ah, good. Someone who is studying bird flu that has no vested interest in panicking the general public! How novel.

So, just how dangerous can this become? I mean, it is the flu, right? So, our natural immune systems should fight it off, right? And you almost have to sleep and live in bird filth to get it right now, right? So are we being panicked for no good reason?

It's not likely to hit humans, but from what I read, our immune system wouldn't do a damn. It's an animal disease. We have no defence against that. And, actually, a man in Egypt got the bird flu, so it is possible for it to spread to humans. I'm glad I'm in America. We've got an ocean protecting us from it if it actually does anything (Oh God...our troops are even more doomed if it hits).

Humans can and have been infected by Avian Flu, although it doesn't appear to be in danger of becoming a global pandemic. I would think that it is a fair bit worse than your normal stomache flu since well over one hundred people have actually died from it.

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Even with an ocean to protect us, the migration paths for Asian birds coming down from northern Russia to Alaska and Canada mixes birds potentially infected with H5N1 with those of North American lineage. Not to mention the invention and spread of air travel makes this thing able to spread very quickly.

Oceans are nothing with travel in present day.

Plus, we did something pretty similar to a pandemic type of RP with the "Red Death" scenario- think bubonic plague, only bloodier.
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Nag Ehgoeg
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Ok first off, in it's current state it's almost impossible for Bird FLu to spread between humans.

Yes people have died - more have died from "regular" strains of flu.

Flu pandemics tend to sweep the world now and again, and they kill hundreds of thousands - but where bird flu to become a pandemic every drugs company in the world would jump all over it and with modern day vaccines any "pandemic" would be swiftly crushed.

If you get bird flu, you're pretty buggered.

But really, we're all much more likely to die from being struck by lightening.
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Nag Ehgoeg
Mar 30 2006, 12:35 PM
Yellow Stone Park errupting

I'm dead...
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Nag Ehgoeg
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We'll all be dead. Our only hope would be Chuck Norris round house kicking the lava and dust into the sun.
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Nag Ehgoeg
Apr 1 2006, 06:23 AM
We'll all be dead. Our only hope would be Chuck Norris round house kicking the lava and dust into the sun.

Why don't we just use Chuck Norris's fat head to plug up the volcano?
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Noriega
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But then the question must be asked, why digress into the realm of Chuckie N at all? ;)

But as for a Bird Flu RP, I'm no game. Norightsia has enough to worry about, and besides, epidemic RPs always suck along the lines Nag brought up. The Red Death was enough for one career here.
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Norightsia
Apr 3 2006, 07:55 PM
The Red Death was enough for one career here.

Lol!
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