SciFi authors predictions on 2012 from 1987
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Posted on: 2012-08-18 10:30 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Closer to "you're one in 4000". The current worldwide death rate is currently 0.8% or 1 in 125. The US and the UK are higher than that.
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What angered me was idea that it was even considered possible for HIV to become an airborne agent. It is complete hysteria.
In general, mutations are deleterious-- extremely deleterious. For something to suddenly switch up and become airborne is akin to one day your son or daughter shooting concussive energy blasts out of their eyes from genetic mutations. There would have to be multiple genetic mutations for such a thing to occur-- and astronomically small for it to happen all at once suddenly. Evolution/genetics just DOES NOT happen that way. |
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An airborne version of HIV would also qualify, since it would essentially infect everyone, given HIV's incubation period and immense difficulty of detection in asymptomatic people. If HIV went airborne, then anyone who was even suspected of carrying it would be lynched. Far beyond the number of people that the disease itself was responsible for, the real effect would be the total splintering of society.
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....and hopeless Science-Natzi.
A global outbreak of ebola that kills 200 million people in 3 months would qualify. An airborne version of HIV would also qualify, since it would essentially infect everyone, given HIV's incubation period and immense difficulty of detection in asymptomatic people. If HIV went airborne, then anyone who was even suspected of carrying it would be lynched. Far beyond the number of people that the disease itself was responsible for, the real effect would be the total splintering of society.
HIV fatalities in 2010 are estimated at 1.8 million. The estimate is very rough, as a lot of people in third world countries who die of...something...often get that credited to AIDS when it may have had nothing to do with it. 1.8 million sounds like quite a lot. But that number represents .025% of the population of the world. It's the old saying "You're one in a million"...well, if that's true, then there are 70 million people who are just like you, special snowflake.
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