Chances

[bigpaul]

(3 November 2011, 20:16)JD1 Wrote: I agree with you up to a point.

Taking two extreme examples though, the first a pandemic that kills billions in a short space of time would result in a lot less people wandering around, the second could be a scenario like in "One Second After" where the whole infrastructure was destroyed by EMP due to a nulear strike, that scenario could result in millions wandering around, it certainly did in the book, and yes I know it is fiction

i think your 2nd scenario is much less likely than the first, the first i can see happening what with seasonal flu/swineflu/bird flu, any or all of which could mutate into a pandemic, but like you say less people would be survivors. like i said in my previous post it would have to be something like that, anything less than that would not see people stirring from their routine lives.