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I’d pass it on but it’s long since gone to a charity shop.

It might indeed rock us like nothing before, point is that would still leave several billion of us. Ironic but we’re more of a plague than any virus affecting us! Anyway, been good sharing opinions. I can recommend this book, read it about ten years ago now and it’s written by a Cambridge...

Yes but like the old plague it’s not a domestos kills all virus either. People get and survive. Don’t forget, AIDS was going to kill us all back in the 80s too. As a species, more of us always survive than don’t. Considerably more. Even during pandemics.

I’m thinking more on a global scale but regardless this is probably a bit too hollywood. History shows we are remarkably resilient to disease even during the greatest outbreaks, often without rhyme or reason too. Many more survive than don’t so if a 1:3 die, that still leaves about 5 billion. We...

Actually it would kill about 2 billion, leaving 5 billion to carry on spawning and we’d be back to 7 in no time at all. Especially with them, you know, foreign types, breeding like rats ironically ;) Nope, no plague will ever kill us off. We however might do it on our own eg AI, Nuclear War...

In fairness this scare story comes up every five years and never really happens. The birth rate of this planet means something on a 1350s level would need to happen to even put a moderate dent in population growth. Far more likely is the collapse of civilisation because of resource scarcity to...