re: atlanta: When/If the $hit Hits the Fan............

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But only if it hits at the same time. if it originates in the suburbs and spreads there first.....as I said....whole cities and villages were wiped out in the Black Plagues before reaching a large city.

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Yea it definitely terrorized the countryside but once it hit the large cities is when the devastation really multiplied exponentially because of more rapid spread.

And the healthcare system is different nowadays too. If you go to a little hospital in a rural area somewhere with some crazy illness that is rapidly progressing and no one knows what it is, you're getting transferred to a bigger tertiary care center...typically in a large city. And just the way people travel daily, it'll get spread to a large city really fast if it is infectious enough to cause the type of disaster we are talking about.

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Yes. I remember that. But, the question for me is...what activated it? I mean..people died for thousands of years without turning so what caused it to happen then?

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It hasn't been revealed in the show and from what people who have read the comics have told me, it isn't revealed there either.

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I don't believe it could ever happen, but stuff like that is always interesting to debate.

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Oh yea me either. It just makes for interesting discussions. Especially when it comes to disease outbreaks. Infectious disease and its effects on history is a really interesting subject. It's fascinating to me that such tiny "uncomplicated" (relative to multi-cellular organisms) things like bacteria and viruses have been able to do what they have. And they always will, it won't ever be able to be stopped just by nature of how they work.