What would you do if there is an outbreak of brain infection?

Question

that debilitates cognitive functions and leaves only the primal need to feed. do you have enough food & water in your house to wait out the disease? do you have a way of securing your house so the infected will not be able to trespass your home? do you have a way of protecting your family from the infected? will the government be able to control the spread of the disease?

RowanOak: i'm not writting a book. i just wanted to find out what people here would do if this improbable scenario materialises.

Answer 1

I live in an earthquake- and windstorm-prone area, so I have 10 days worth of food, water, fuel, etc., on hand. I do have a way of securing my home, and indeed of making it look very un-lived-in. I don't have a family, but I can certainly protect myself.

As to the government - I think they're already suffering from the nasty little bug ;-)

Answer 2

Judging from the idiocy of the people I encountered on my commute this morning, I would have to say that brain infection is already rampant. My answer to that, as always, is to spend as much time on my own property as I possibly can. It isn't worth dealing with the outside world most of the time.

Answer 3

What? Where? How? If the 'primal need to feed,' is only cognition left, you couldn't think of the others.

Answer 4

if that happened, i would just pray, and no, i dont think anyone could fully protect theirselves from that, also, what if a family member caught it? a child of yours? or a spouse? and no i dont expect my government to be able to protect me from major things, it takes them years to even find a solution /cure, and then longer implement changes/vaccines

Answer 5

I'd do exactly as I'm doing now.

Attempting to anticipate disaster seems to me to invite it.

Answer 6

Are you writing this book?

Answer 7

hmm, I guess I would start to Pray

Answer 8

go read a book.

sheesh.