What he said.
With no WHO and health authorities on an ego trip, with no Big Pharma selling their snake oil through corrupt politicians , with no social media whipping up the frenzy, with no crazy billionaires like Gates fueling the hysteria, COVID-19 passes through history without even a whimper, simply unnoticed.
Some place gets "bad flu" and that's all.
Vaccinated people are just as likely - if not more, to get Covid.What makes you think that the COVID-19 vaccine is snake oil?
Of the two ways AIDS is primarily spread, both are going to be heavily nerfed.BTW - I sometimes wonder about identical scenario but with AIDS - without modern medicine keeping the Plaguebearers alive, nor mobility awarded by modern tech as pointed out by @Bear Ribs in his post above, would it manage to spread? Or would those contracting HIV get sick and die before passing Nurgle's Blessing outside their communities?
A dozen COVID-19-infected people are sent back in time by invisible and undetectable Alien Space Bats to January 1, 1850; what happens next?
Um we are sending sick people from the Future to the past. Most sick people have more than just the illness they are afflicted with in their system. Many of us who got vaccinated as children against diseases we have gotten under control. Still carry a small amount of said germs on us. Said germs just can't get us sick. But those same germs entering a population of people who have no such immunity is a recipe for disaster on a global level. This is gonna cause a few million people to die. Not just from Covid but from all the other shit they are carrying that no cures exist for yet.What he said.
With no WHO and health authorities on an ego trip, with no Big Pharma selling their snake oil through corrupt politicians , with no social media whipping up the frenzy, with no crazy billionaires like Gates fueling the hysteria, COVID-19 passes through history without even a whimper, simply unnoticed.
Some place gets "bad flu" and that's all.
If they land in a populated area or one connected to a city or something, yeah.Um we are sending sick people from the Future to the past. Most sick people have more than just the illness they are afflicted with in their system. Many of us who got vaccinated as children against diseases we have gotten under control. Still carry a small amount of said germs on us. Said germs just can't get us sick. But those same germs entering a population of people who have no such immunity is a recipe for disaster on a global level. This is gonna cause a few million people to die. Not just from Covid but from all the other shit they are carrying that no cures exist for yet.
First time I have heard about that.Um we are sending sick people from the Future to the past. Most sick people have more than just the illness they are afflicted with in their system. Many of us who got vaccinated as children against diseases we have gotten under control. Still carry a small amount of said germs on us. Said germs just can't get us sick. But those same germs entering a population of people who have no such immunity is a recipe for disaster on a global level. This is gonna cause a few million people to die. Not just from Covid but from all the other shit they are carrying that no cures exist for yet.
You can literally have Flu and Cold Virus in your body at the same time. Not to mention the Flus we have now that don't affect us much is due to herd immunity. Immunity that took decades to come about. Now send said people back to a time before such immunity developed. Do you see the problem yet. Also do I have to point out what happened when Europeans first entered the Americas with diseases that had never been seen on the continents. It didn't go well. And we are doing the same in this scenario. All you need is one person with a mild version of some tropical disease to also have Covid and be sent back. That leads to disaster.First time I have heard about that.
Vaccines work on viruses, and viruses can not reproduce in an organism that has gained immunity through natural or unnatural means.
With bacteria you might have something, but most of the bacterial diseases that existed back then exist now as well, and we really haven't found any new germs in between now and 1850 aside for Ebola and AIDS and a few very rare geographically specific diseases and one-hit wonders like swine and bird flu.
If what you are saying was true then quarantines as practiced since the Dark Ages wouldn't work.
hepatitis and variola for example have probably been around infecting humans since before Christ.
Also, the fact that a particular virus becomes vaccine-resistant, or that a particular bacteria stops responding to antibiotics doesn't mean that it is more dangerous overall.
Evolution favors adaptability, not necessarily hostility, so tha majority of viruses and bacterial in your organism are causing zero harm, with a number of bacteria even turning symbiotic over their evolution.
Yes you can catch two diseases at the same time.You can literally have Flu and Cold Virus in your body at the same time. Not to mention the Flus we have now that don't affect us much is due to heard immunity. Immunity that took decades to come about. Now send said people back to a time before such immunity developed. Do you see the problem not. Also do I have to point out what happened when Europeans first entered the Americas with diseases that had never been seen on the continents. It didn't go well. And we are doing the same in this scenario. All you need is one person with a mild version of some tropical disease to also have Covid and be sent back. That leads to disaster.
Now the OP should have stated that the ROB took away all other infectious diseases from this time period they could be carrying . But he didn't and not the past is fucked.
Yes but many of those diseases were in remote jungles. Now you have some of those diseases entering non jungle settings in people from this time period. Congrats Great Great Grandma gets to die from the mild version of Ebola.Yes you can catch two diseases at the same time.
Then hopefully your organism will get its act together and cure you, or at least suppress the virus load to a level where transmission is highly unlikely.
In any case the only thing that could do real damage is a disease with a high R0, and I doubt there are that many of them out there that weren't around before 1850.
You are kinda-sorta speculating here, can you provide a few real examples?
The "mild" ebola has done what most viruses do, adapt to the environment.Yes but many of those diseases were in remote jungles. Now you have some of those diseases entering non jungle settings in people from this time period. Congrats Great Great Grandma gets to die from the mild version of Ebola.
Did a population that has never had any exposure to Ebola magically get an immunity to it. No no it didn'tThe "mild" ebola has done what most viruses do, adapt to the environment.
Viruses are programmed to reproduce, and killing the host doesn't help.
As Ron Paul saud, viruses naturally become less lethal in contact with humans.
Did the cliffs become less steep as the Mountain Goat evolved?
Did the wind become less powerful as the first birds gradually evolved into eagles?
A lot of people were dying of them already in Europe, too.It just happened more gradually.The same way Native Americans didn't get a magical immunity to Old World diseases when they were first exposed. Million died from those diseases.
What makes you think that the COVID-19 vaccine is snake oil?