The Stand, intro (Don't fear the reaper)

Intro from the mini "The stand" based on Stephen King's novel by the same name. Italian dub. The music was not added by me, this is the original intro from the first episode of the series.

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[gooyzit]

Thee best opening sequence in any movie or tv show. EVER

[terraitya]

I hoped to see a man with his face in soup plate...

[AaronCherr]

@bumoffhtestreet

A good reference for a disease like the initial strain of the superflu might be the "sweating sickness" in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries...it killed very quickly, so quickly in fact that it ultimately drove itself to extinction (hopefully). After 1551 it was never seen again and as of yet there's no idea what it was.

[AaronCherr]

@MrRaziel22

Exactly. It took a normal trait of the influenza virus and accelerated it to the point where it would occur multiple times within the same host; this not only guaranteed mortality but also ensured they would remain infected for as long as possible to spread it to others. So, they would recover repeatedly but ultimately lose the battle but not before spreading it far more than any conventional influenza.

Stephen King designed one hell of a nasty biological weapon...

[bumoffhtestreet]

@bumoffhtestreet Theres also the concept of error catastrophe. A virus can only reproduce and have viable offspring up to a certain rate of mutation. Once that threshold is passed, the offspring produced have too many errors and the population dies out due to instability. Or so the theory goes.

[bumoffhtestreet]

@MrRaziel22 That and they used a stronger version of the flu to start with. The type A flu, like H1N1 but without any of its flaws. And the communicability was enhanced to 99.4%.

[MrRaziel22]

@bumoffhtestreet the shifting antigen aspect is already present in the flu, it's just much, much slower, wich is why we have a new version to cope with every now and then. the gents on project blue basically sped up the mutation by a factor of around 10 to power of 3, destroying any chance of adaption by an immune system.

[MrRaziel22]

@BrendanIsCool yah just HAD to invoke Murphy, didn't ya??!?

[MrRaziel22]

@AaronCherr A good point, The expansion of the main story in nthe novel does mention it is a shifting antigen virus, designed to apapt to everything an immune system can throw at it

[AaronCherr]

@MrRaziel22

I think the other aspect is the virus was also engineered to mutate rapidly, so by the time Campion was exposed it had already evolved into a form more easily transmitted with delayed mortality. Had it just remained that deadly, it would have gone extinct in the base.

[blackbeltrobin]

awesome



[OW41N]

@terraitya and then have his face pulled out of it a good few days later by a general XD