>>11444625I am reading The Demon in the Freezer right now where it discussed in full detail how the modern world would be absolutely helpless should Smallpox return.
No city on Earth can ever be ready to handle that. Heck, not even human civilization itself right now may survive if that were unleashed.
It won't be reconstructed, it's completely available on locked freezers in sciencelabs
It used to have an infection rate of 10. Meaning that one person would spread it to 10 people. By tomorrow, those 10 would spread it to 10 more per patient - 100 in just 2 days. 1000 in 3 days, 10,000 in 4 and so on.
And that was when the human population and density was hardly comparable to ours right now.
Today, that infection rate can be as high as 15-20.
It is possible to have modern medicine that can slow down and reduce smallpox's lethality but guess what? It is also possible to force the pathogen to become resistant to drugs via process known as "heating up".
It's a simple process wherein a batch of viruses shall be farmed, then doused in drugs. The survivors shall be cultivated then doused in drugs again. After just 1 year of doing this, you shall have a strain with a massive drug resistance. The process is both inexpensive and effortless just time-consuming.
Corona virus has less lethality than the Spanish Flu but smallpox....oh smallpox. Smallpox is the one and only disease on Earth that was so scary enough that people made deities in its name.
We are lucky that WHO succeeded in eliminating it from the wild. Let's pray it never escape the vaults.
