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Both involve the world smart one. A world war will start if the north drops the nuke

Nah I feel like the US will just nuke the north out of existence.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Please tell me that's sarcasm

U think a nuke wouldn't do the same?

What about their allies?

China and Russia

But North Korea would lose that war within hours of dropping that first bomb

But Ebola can't spread through the air effectively. Plus nuclear fall out lasts waaaaay longer than panic over a disease.

It's not just panic though. Ebola would be at major airports where people travel all over the world

Ebola dies out too fast to be effectively weaponized.

New strains of Ebola could develop. And it only takes 5 seconds to infect someone with Ebola. Imagine a major airport where people go all around the world.

"New strains of Ebola could develop. And it only takes 5 seconds to infect someone with Ebola."

Ebola can't go airborne. It takes literally forever to infect someone with a dead Ebola virus.

Not if the person is alive. Then it doesn't have to be airborne bcuz it's on the person and it won't take that long to infect someone else

It has to be airborne to survive the spray bottle dispersal. You are talking about a terrorist attack on the scale of the Times Square firework bomber, versus the nuclear bombing of a modern metropolis.

There is no comparison.

North Korea has a weak arsenal and surely no one is crazy enough to side with them if they did it, but yeah, they'd probably do more damage than the Ebola.

I disagree. We'd see the entire region around the Korean Peninsula de-stabilize. War with China would not be impossible.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't expect ISIS to develop an effective delivery system for Ebola. This is a question of panic versus nukes.

China would be the first to invade NK. They have already expressed severe displeasure with NK for destabilizing the region and threatening the lucrative American trade.

There are a lot of Americans in Korea

There r more Americans in America though

This is from October, what the hell.

Lol that's what I said when I saw it

... Which October?!

I'll hope it's from 2014. I joined in 2011 though so you never know lol

Dink

D I N K. Why the fuck is that word censored.

haha, when u was reading this at first I was like, "land with a di ck? what the f is this guy talking about" lol

I love how they made it into a worse word by censoring it.

Well, you know... Missiles, phallic symbols, crazy North Koreans... It could happen.

Well, there is the fact that North Korea's missile is called the "Taepodong"...

That made my day

Exactly.

You really think China is going to give up the trillions of dollars we owe them? Are you crazy?

China and the US are political rivals, but they're major trade partners.

Exactly. If China decided to go to war, it would hurt them as much, if not more, than us.

Clearly you have a dizzying intellect.

Not entire sure how that works, but most countries have better food standards than West African ones.

An Ebola outbreak in the US will enter China via the cargo ships. To Russia, via air travel of friends going thru JFK airport.

Plus it would be biological terrorist suicide. They don't have the means to protect themselves adequately...

As if suicide stops ISIS nutjobbers? Hellllooooo!!!!

If we were [still] into the biological warfare thing (natives), we would've sent them Ebola by now..

And suicide of a few vs mass outbreak that if if rica can't contain it, what makes you think the IS can??

The spray ~could~ act as the moist medium required...depending on what it is made of. But it would have to be sprayed close enough to people for it to enter the bloodstream before drying out and dying...I would say that it would be very difficult.

But the question was about chaos. People would flip out. Sick or not, there would be extreme chaos. using the word Ebola, and showing it spread around in that manner, whether efficient or not, would cause more insanity in the masses than a nuke.

American masses, mind you...unfortunately, as a whole, Americans are very selfish and lack empathy towards the suffering of others...most do not even know the difference between N.K. and S.K. So, even though I would be more concerned with the nuke...

The WHO says that Ebola can survive in standing water for days.

The WHO has been wrong several times before. Also, without the assistance of cells a virus cannot replicate. So you would have to have a very foul sprayer to hold enough of the virus to pose an issue. It is not as easy as people think to get infected

The only reason it is spreading so badly overseas is because of the hygiene. The lack of available water to wash, as well as their rituals concerning the deceased, has led to it being so terribly widespread. Spritzing with water is bad if you get it

near enough to an orifice or other entrance to your bloodstream for the virus to move in before you wash. if you at all follow simple hygienic steps you can be very safe, unless the person spraying was spraying in faces...which would not happen.

The tin foil hat gang is going to kill our planet one day. Ebulu may be the cause of it.

Unlike Japan, in this case it's the start of a war, not the end of one. It probably wouldn't be the last nuke dropped, and who knows how widespread the war might become.

Yes, but the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only part of a conflict that affected nearly every continent on the planet and killed 2.5% of the world's population.

You don't think an equally large conflict could result?

They didn't say that they would drop communism on the airport though

When you consider that ISIS's creation was largely influenced+supported by the CIA several years ago, one would assume it wouldn't be too hard for them to acquire those abilities.

/ISIS=formed/created by the CIA, just like 90% of terrorists we fight

Are you saying the CIA is the root of all evil?

Pretty much lol

No, there are roots deeper than the CIA that are responsible for the evils the CIA has committed, e.g. drug trafficking, arming terrorist groups, arming drug cartels, etc.
But yes I am saying the CIA have caused many evils behind the scenes.

E,.G. Read list once again- Arming terrorists (Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, etc), arming drug cartels (Operation Fast&Furious), drug trafficking (stated by mexican officials, even DEA officials, along with strong supporting evidence), etc.

I agree Ebola is not airborne, and not as bad as people think, but in a major airport it would be a problem. People drop things on the ground and stuff. You sound like those people that don't wash their hands and wonder why they're sick...

The opposite. Given the filthy nature of places like airports, I expect people to be more aware of the risk of contamination, to not rub their eyes, to clean their hands before eating, etc. The five second rule does not apply in airports.

It's not airborne, but it is highly infections. A single drop of body fluid is enough to infect you and we have tiny cuts throughout our body that we don't even notice. If someone grabbed a door handle sprayed with ebola and it so happens that he has

Cut on his hand, the virus would transfer. It's like you don't know how viruses or bacteria spread throughout a population.

What Ikillgiants said

So it's a magic aerosol that stays wet forever, or magic ebola that stays viable when dry. If they have that kind of magic at their disposal, I could save them a lot of trouble.

It can remain on a surface for hours if the conditions are right. Why do you think they disinfect every surface that the victims have come in contact with?

Yes it can, but it is a big if. And IF that were a significant risk we WOULD have seen it spread more widely by now, such as within families. More data available courtesy of Canada, eh:
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

I know the whole question is a hypothetical, but it borders on being as ridiculous a scenario as a zombie outbreak.

Too bad out fellow countrymen are too fucking retarded to understand that viruses don't mystically change their mode of transport just because the media talks about them.

How about "stealthy spraying", as a trademarked technique? I can see that catching on :-)

Let's hurry and get the website reserved!

...will act against these sadistic animals!

"Fight fire with fire" - Eugene.

Just like there is a cure for HIV!! Right?!

Um no. There are four versions of an unfunded vaccine... There is no market for it right now. And HIV is a completely different severity than Ebola the amount of people who died in Africa of HIV compared to Ebola is much more. sit down paranoid Pete.

The problems will not stop after North Korea is annexed. Any war in history can tell us that

Yeah, but it will be China's problem.
They'll execute the NK administration in the street and take over daily operations.
The average starving and brainwashed NK citizen will adapt to the new regime easily because they've been trained to be passive.

As long as we stay out of it, the whole thing would be over in a weekend.

You know we won't stay out of it. And Russia and whoevers involved in South Korea will put their two cents in as well

You're right. It would be too tempting of a political football for DC not to pick it up.

Sean, Glenn, Bill?

How would that be sweet? The hell is wrong with you?

So we can finally show the world the real power of our military. Nobody would mess with us after that

Really? Because we dropped two atomic bombs on japan but that hasn't stopped people from messing with us... You must be 12.

That was just two atomic bombs. Just imagine if we wiped out their entire country with nuclear missiles fired thousands of miles away.
We would show the world just how badass we really are

Yeah. Millions and millions of deaths just to prove a point...not to mention probably wiping out a good amount of surrounding countries and possibly starting a global war.

Beginning to think kittles is either retarded or a troll...

Everybody hates North Korea. It wouldn't start a global war if we wiped them out. And we wouldn't mess with any other surrounding countries. Just them

Troll I think. Do you not know how nuclear bombs work?

Not really. I'm not a scientist

How old are you?

I'm 30. How old are you?

Except some people in airports tend to fly to other countries. That makes it global.

Except it's not only targeting Americans. It's in American airports- so it will most likely affect MANY more countries as well. A Chinese man visiting America? He's bringing it back to China. A couple going on vacation in Jamaica? Same.

Except it says 50 major airports. Nothing about only in the US. So it will already be global.

Good reading!

Ahh very true run, Reeze, Willy... If other countries around the globe, however, knew about this bio-attack, I wonder how many of them would ban flights coming FROM this Country, into THEIRS.
Irony.