Post by rvm45 on Jan 16, 2018 15:16:04 GMT -6
Friends,
Every once in awhile I come across a educational documentary that mentions Biological Warfare.
There is a shortlist of about 5 or 6 diseases that would be whizbangers if they could be modified to be airborne. Rabies is always on the list. I don't know if there is something about Rabies that suggest that it would be relatively simple to modify it to airborne or if they're just going by results.
Let's be serious. Dogs—and a few other creatures go berserk when the disease has run its course, but both people and bats tend to simply have ostentatious seizures without "Mad Dog" aggression toward the world at large.
Let's modify our Rabies for story purposes. In Phase Two the victim becomes wired, unable to sleep and there is a strong boost to the sex drive.
In Phase Three they devolve into a frantic biter—Kinda like the zombies in "30 Days"(?)
Let's keep it a bit real though. Rabies has an incubation period of weeks—not minutes or even hours—like a movie zombie.
For story purposes, let's say two weeks until Phase Three starts. Even that's a bit fast—but for drama.
Keep in mind—you can catch the Airborne Rabies from breathing in sneeze or cough droplets as well as from sex or being bitten You can even get it from eating or drinking after someone.
Some folks have natural immunity—especially anyone ever vaccinated for real Rabies. Some few can also survive the Phase Three and recover—unlike regular Rabies which inevitably kills without medical intervention.
Just a comment:
The scenes that fascinate me—and that I'm not very good at writing—are the scenes when the Writing Is On The Walls but Full-Scale Anarchy hasn't yet broken out.
I was reading a Zombie story online somewhere and zombies had just broken out. A woman had just shot her husband and the neighbor man and the laws came, handcuffed her and shoved her into the back of a patrol car—and then the laws got eaten.
This was well done, but the idea of being shut into tha back of a car while handcuffed got my claustrophobia going so strongly that I quit reading and never got around to going back. Don't remember where I read that now.
Scenes like this—though hopefully not as phobia-activating—should happen more often than in most stories with a all-but-unstoppable, yet slow-moving plague.
…..RVM45
Every once in awhile I come across a educational documentary that mentions Biological Warfare.
There is a shortlist of about 5 or 6 diseases that would be whizbangers if they could be modified to be airborne. Rabies is always on the list. I don't know if there is something about Rabies that suggest that it would be relatively simple to modify it to airborne or if they're just going by results.
Let's be serious. Dogs—and a few other creatures go berserk when the disease has run its course, but both people and bats tend to simply have ostentatious seizures without "Mad Dog" aggression toward the world at large.
Let's modify our Rabies for story purposes. In Phase Two the victim becomes wired, unable to sleep and there is a strong boost to the sex drive.
In Phase Three they devolve into a frantic biter—Kinda like the zombies in "30 Days"(?)
Let's keep it a bit real though. Rabies has an incubation period of weeks—not minutes or even hours—like a movie zombie.
For story purposes, let's say two weeks until Phase Three starts. Even that's a bit fast—but for drama.
Keep in mind—you can catch the Airborne Rabies from breathing in sneeze or cough droplets as well as from sex or being bitten You can even get it from eating or drinking after someone.
Some folks have natural immunity—especially anyone ever vaccinated for real Rabies. Some few can also survive the Phase Three and recover—unlike regular Rabies which inevitably kills without medical intervention.
Just a comment:
The scenes that fascinate me—and that I'm not very good at writing—are the scenes when the Writing Is On The Walls but Full-Scale Anarchy hasn't yet broken out.
I was reading a Zombie story online somewhere and zombies had just broken out. A woman had just shot her husband and the neighbor man and the laws came, handcuffed her and shoved her into the back of a patrol car—and then the laws got eaten.
This was well done, but the idea of being shut into tha back of a car while handcuffed got my claustrophobia going so strongly that I quit reading and never got around to going back. Don't remember where I read that now.
Scenes like this—though hopefully not as phobia-activating—should happen more often than in most stories with a all-but-unstoppable, yet slow-moving plague.
…..RVM45
