So regarding prions, that would be an insidious plan, and could work if your goal is to whack a certain percentage of the population. It wouldn’t kill everybody, because there’s a percentage of people that are highly resistant, if not immune to vcjd : https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/345203.
So there’s a few things that would make this plan work:
1.) Make vcjd endemic - it’s currently a rare disease.
2.) Since only those who are heterozygous on said gene carry immunity, those who are phenotypically immune/resistant are not guaranteed to produce children that are immune/resistant to the disease. Each generation thereafter would ALWAYS have some fatalities, except for those families who can afford (ie, the elites) to genetically alter their children’s embryos.
3.) VCJD mostly manifests slowly, over the course of a decade or so, but those who are particularly vulnerable may quickly show symptoms. This spreads out the deaths over a longer period of time, allows the economic system to wind down gradually.
In 2 decades, you could potentially drop the population by 75% or so if you can spread vcjd to the world, and protect your own offspring with genetic engineering.
Excellent article, thanks. Disturbing points you make, on how effectively and invisibly vcjd could depopulate while elites can be protected. Focus on your balding scalp while your brain turns to cheese.
So regarding prions, that would be an insidious plan, and could work if your goal is to whack a certain percentage of the population. It wouldn’t kill everybody, because there’s a percentage of people that are highly resistant, if not immune to vcjd : https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/345203.
So there’s a few things that would make this plan work:
1.) Make vcjd endemic - it’s currently a rare disease.
2.) Since only those who are heterozygous on said gene carry immunity, those who are phenotypically immune/resistant are not guaranteed to produce children that are immune/resistant to the disease. Each generation thereafter would ALWAYS have some fatalities, except for those families who can afford (ie, the elites) to genetically alter their children’s embryos.
3.) VCJD mostly manifests slowly, over the course of a decade or so, but those who are particularly vulnerable may quickly show symptoms. This spreads out the deaths over a longer period of time, allows the economic system to wind down gradually.
In 2 decades, you could potentially drop the population by 75% or so if you can spread vcjd to the world, and protect your own offspring with genetic engineering.
Excellent article, thanks. Disturbing points you make, on how effectively and invisibly vcjd could depopulate while elites can be protected. Focus on your balding scalp while your brain turns to cheese.