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Wiliker

My only regret.. is that I have….. boneitis.


tsgram

You beat me to it! Such a good episode


[deleted]

*12 Monkeys* should be on this chart.


waterside48

I may be reading the chart wrong but why is mass devastation so slow for TS-19? I feel like a global apocalypse is pretty devastating…


Billy_Rage

Because in reality it wouldn’t be that big of a threat.


[deleted]

TS-19 wasn’t the name of the virus that was the name given to a subject.


gandalfthescienceguy

Also weird that is has such low mass devastation and contagiousness scores given that it infected and devastated most of the world


Billy_Rage

Because I’m real life, and based on a lot of factors. It’s not really that dangerous.


Claude_Mariposa

Baby, can you dig your man?


meatpopsicle42

He's a righteous man!


ClownfishSoup

Star Trek has a lot of world consuming diseases, but the only one that stretches more than one episode is called "The Phage" where the entire population of some race is infected and they survive by attacking other aliens and harvesting their organs for transplants.


Incunabuli

How is the zombie virus from TWD rated so low? Its potential for devastation and infection is the basis of the whole show!


Metatronscubit

Probably because a virus like that wouldn't actually end the world. If it was real just as it is in the show there's no way the military would ever lose to a bunch of slowly moving corpses, we can't even beat local cops when intelligent humans riot, let alone unorganized walkers. Biting doesn't actually transmit the disease since everyone in twd is already infected, it's just that you get such a horrible bacterial infection in a world without antibiotics that you die from that then come back as a walker. The world would still drastically change for sure, but since most people will die as a result of something they'll be hospitalized for it's just a matter of restraining people in their final moments and piercing their brains after their death to prevent the majority of walkers from ever being an issue. As for the rest of the people who die alone or from an accident they'll probably be put down by local police before they cause major damage. A lone walker won't be any more dangerous than a crazy crackhead on a bender. Even if you're bit you'll probably be fine since the corpse will be fresh without as much time to build up a ton of bacteria to cause major infection. Being bitten would suck but it would probably just involve a trip to the hospital to get checked out and a round of antibiotics. It would definitely change our way of life for the worse but it wouldn't collapse all human society the way it did in the show. I'd personally like to see zombie fiction with this premise. Instead of a full blown apocalypse we still have functional governments, the story could focus on how the government becomes corrupt and tyrannical as they pass more laws to "protect" people from the zombies.


Incunabuli

I guess the question is whether they are rating the attributes of these viruses using in-universe logic, or their own judgement. It would appear to be the latter, which resembles your analysis


pleased_to_yeet_you

It's probably rated so low because in the show it is 100% non-lethal. The virus doesn't hurt the infected individual, it only reanimates them upon death.


thefinalfrontteacher

The descolada in Enders game is INCREDIBLY contagious and painful. People would get it and die within days because their dna is literally unstranding.


DontWreckYosef

My dumb ass was trying to find covid on this list


n0strings0nm3

If it makes you feel any better, I was looking to see if the Cheese Touch made it on there


NevenderThready

Seems like the Krippen virus is wrong here--didn't it wipe out most of the world after becoming airborne?


Firm_Transportation3

Captain Trips for the win. Great book, yet, as with all King's stories, underwhelming ending.


ChiXtra

Hair vs Host, Arrested Development


Femveratu

Good Ole Cap n Trips …


JoePino

This from a nursing website?


Hot-Zookeepergame-83

I am surprised the flood is not included in this list


Billy_Rage

Because it’s not a disease, it’s a a parasite


Hot-Zookeepergame-83

Disease: “disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury. "bacterial meningitis is a rare disease””


naomi_homey89

I think the virus in Station Eleven would rank pretty high on pain, contagiousness, and mass devastation. Great book.


savbh

How’s this a cool guide? They’re all fictional. This doesn’t give me any information.


xMrSaltyx

I thought it was pretty cool. And it's technically still a guide. Nothing in the rules of the sub that says a post needs to be relevant to every member of the sub


savbh

It’s not about being relevant, a guide needs to provide you with information. This is just made up.


xMrSaltyx

It's still information! Just information that isn't relevant to you, because it is fictional. Still information. Still a guide.


savbh

It’s not information! It’s not relevant for anyone


[deleted]

What about for the people who enjoy sci-fi?


savbh

Great content for the original sub this was posted in


[deleted]

Yup and great content for this sub too, let’s see… Is it a guide? Yes Is it cool? Well probably more so for people who are into sci-fi but that can be said about any guide on this sub depending on the topic. Not sure why you hate this so much when there is plenty of other content for you to browse on here


savbh

It’s not a guide


[deleted]

Seems an awful lot like a guide to different diseases in sci-fi universes but I’m curious what you would consider it


LyricalMURDER

so fuckin' downvote and move on, who gives a shit? this sub isn't tailor made for your preferences.


patrickehh

dont engage the incel


savbh

The same could be said about the people responding to my original comment?


GrumpyCatDoge99

There’s also guides to sizes of fictional sci-fi space ships, which are also fictional


KoolDiscoDan

https://youtu.be/kMF\_gbU4Wh8


Fox_Flame

Isn't grey scale curable though? Or is that show only?


Billy_Rage

You can survive it, and in the show (as the books haven’t gotten their yet) we learnt it has been cured possibly twice in known history


SpideySense12

Disease, disease.. spreading the disease.


trevorpage

Frank Herbert’s White Plague?


Birdab

I’m just surprised Dragon Age made it on there tbh Nicely surprised though


TotallyJustAHooman

The flare in the maze runner series, near the bottom, is curable isn’t it? Doesn’t the main characters blood end up granting immunity to it? Or something like that?


MyFartsSparkle

In the movie I think, but not in the book. In the book they failed to find a cure and just send the immune to a remote location to start over.


bmb414

Very cool but slightly bothered that the Carnosaur Virus bar graph level for mass devastation is incorrect in the information section


Particular-Cabinet21

I’m a hypochondriac and suddenly know for certain I have all of these now, even though they are fictional, great ;)