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

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

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Definitely it would spread faster in a large city because of proximity and numbers, but the countryside was already wiped out.

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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.

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However...don't forget Ebola. Remember the woman who promised to Quarantine herself for 21 days and was seen going through a drive through window buying fast food? She was not locked away in a hospital in spite of the dangers, and we already know what happened in Africa due to Ebola.

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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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Of course you are right. With airplanes, cars, buses it would spread to large cities much faster. In fact, I doubt if any place would be safe. Big city or country.