what will happen to our world if we go through a plaque that kills 97% of the worlds population?

Question

Serious anwsers only this information will be used to conceive a " plan " for this situation what kind of supplies would be needed to survive how long would we have to remain in a germ proof bunker will bio suits be effective and any other pertinent information will be appreciated what will happent to our society


for examples or reference of this happening please consult

The Stand By Stephen King

i dont know how i didnt spell that right i mean a plague as in a diease

i know a few here will probably think that its fiction and it will never happen but dont forget that humanity has already gone through its fair share of diease and plague and if you think it will never happen than you truly are doomed because this is a very real possiblity just like a asteroid impact or the bibles armageddon

Answer 1

That's what we call a population bottleneck. Genetically speaking, there would be a huge reduction in the number of alleles of the population, and as you can imagine, the following generations of humans would be very much like that 3% that survived. Yet, that's IF the 3% can find each other, because if they're scattered, we're doomed as no offspring is likely to happen.

But yeah, if that were to happen, it would be good that everybody knew a bit of biology, a bit of chemistry and much about the old ways of farming and cattle breeding and so on.

But if, as you hope, we end up in a situation like the movie 12 Monkeys, forget about it, no way to stay away from whatever killed the 97%, mostly because most people are too inept to secure their own survival.

Answer 2

population is about 7 billion people
3% is still a lot of people to survive.
Depending on where these people are located, ie, as a group, or as small communities spread around.
How have they survived the catastrophe?
Possibly by being secured away in a bunker as you have mentioned. How many people are we talking about?
About 210 million people?
That is about 10 times the population of australia. What kind of bunker is going to be big enough for that many people? none
It will have to be smaller bunkers spread around in each country. There have been various movies about the government having bunkers for the end of the world. I would assume that these would be fairly plausible.
If you consider how many people are living in poverty ( over 99% of the population ) then how would the other 2% survive, because they wouldn't be getting taken into the bunkers. Not even 0.0001% or about 7 million people would be getting into the bunkers. I would estimate it at about 100,000 people surviving a world wide epidemic of a plague. It would be useless to try to survive. Only the very wealthy could purchase their way into a suitable bunker, otherwise these people would have to have been chosen for their special skills.
There is of course the concept of having slaves to do all the menial laborious tasks. then if the power mongers were to get too big headed and tyrannical the slaves would revolt and open the bunker to let the plague in and end the entire human race.

So what will happen?
interesting question,
the animals would die, unless they had a natural immunity, in which case, humans would eventually discover it and fight the plague.
How far would the plague progress, would plants die as well, would the earth end up a barren waste land?
The plague would most likely be a virus though, because if it were a bacteria, then it would most likely be managable.
So if it is a virus, or worse yet a prion ( smaller than a virus ) then the problem to consider here is that there is no way to kill these things. They behave like seeds, they only come out to play if they are disturbed and notice some kind of food loitering around, so if there were to be a plague to end the human race, then these microbes would probably be airborne, and so they would infest all the land. There are no filters which could filter them out, the best anyone could hope for is to have air sucked in through a blast furnace, and be chemically treated to purify the air. All food would have to be purified as well. And since the reproduction rate of these organisms is so fast, there would be no way to stop it from exterminating the human race.

The scary thing is that we are only a few decades away from something like that happening. With all the biotech research that is happening interacting with the natural evolutionary process, an airborne virus which is highly contagious and fatal already exists, the common cold, influenza. Through evolution, humans developed an immunity to this bug. For example look at the incas and aztecs, they were wiped out by the common cold and other bugs like herpes which the spanish took to their country. Genocide is what it is called.

Do you really want to survive?
It could be nice, a new world where the people can feel lucky to just be alive. No plants. No animals. Just dirt and rocks. There would still be the ocean and the beach. But no fish in the ocean. All food would be what was grown inside the bunkers. Some things like the slavery concept would have to happen. I can't imagine the president of USA doing any farming.

As for leaving to go to another planet.
It would be pointless. The prions can survive outer space, so they would just get taken to any new world, and spread there because to pass through the earth atmospere and not pick up a dust particle hitch hiker would be impossible.

I think the best way to think of a plague is to think of it as lots of tiny dust particles. You'll never get rid of them, you just have to learn to live with it.

The human race will die soon enough, try not to think about it, get on with your life. Have a bit of fun, try to avoid hurting anything that can be hurt.

What is your reason for wanting to survive?
fear of death?

Answer 3

As some others have answered, there would still be a large number of people left to repopulate the earth. There may be no need for a germ proof bunker since no mention of the reason for survival of the 3% was made - they may have a genetic resistance to the plague organism. The time period immediately following the plague would be trying with all the decomposing bodies, lack of transportation for food etc, and probable cessation of society's infrastructure. Continued survival of the remaining 3% would depend upon the availability of stored resources and proximity to rural or "natural" areas where food or shelter could be obtained. Continued survival might be best in the tropics, because of disruption of the energy and transportation systems in the temperate regions. Preservation of "applied" knowledge would be critical in determining the rate of recovery of civilization. Humans, as a social animal would survive as they again find each other to form communities. Lack of readily available fossil fuels would hamper the recovery back to the "machine age" level of development, but the reduced human population would enable some recovery of the depleted natural environment.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It is inevitable that humans will go through another plague or similar situation at some point. But personally, I'd rather not live my life fretting about it and preparing for it. Just enjoy life and whatever happens, happens. If humans went extinct (unlikely), then nature will continue on as it always has.

Answer 6

It wouldn't be the first time.
there's genetic variability, that's why our cells acquire it in the (diplonema)/spanish/ phase in mitosis. for the survival of the species.