Interesting. Why would someone care about infection rates, but not mortality? It can only mean they have a use for a high infection rate and simply don’t care how many die as a side effect.
If she cared about it, she would have asked. Obviously doesn’t care about it.
Some Ed
Maybe this HEV is designed to have such a low mortality rate she assumes it’s 0 in this trial population. Of course, that would be an assumption which could come back to haunt her, and if it did, this wouldn’t be the first work I read where someone tried to make an innocuous but highly contagious disease, only to find out to their chagrin that they had created a highly deadly, highly contagious disease instead, and if they’d only looked at their test data more closely, they’d have known before the population they cared about were suffering and dying from it.
Initially, though ‘Angie’ was a lost love that Sar was thinking of, but then realized she is the computer (and no, nothing needs to be changed to make it ‘clearer’ 🙂 )
Is this Sariel handling the virus like Tirin said, or is this the origin of the Tirin Clone Wars?
Will Sariel give the order to, ‘Execute Order 69’?
Is Cadence and her ‘Bad Batch’ actually the lesser (least?) of the evils?
Will Tirin and Reny really walk away and say, “Not my circus, not my 12 monkeys.”?
9 thoughts on “Chapter 23, page 27 – Sariel’s way of unwinding”
bug
Interesting. Why would someone care about infection rates, but not mortality? It can only mean they have a use for a high infection rate and simply don’t care how many die as a side effect.
Guesticules
Who said anything about mortality?
And yes, often a high infection rate can lead to a cure (depending on what Sar is up to)
bug
If she cared about it, she would have asked. Obviously doesn’t care about it.
Some Ed
Maybe this HEV is designed to have such a low mortality rate she assumes it’s 0 in this trial population. Of course, that would be an assumption which could come back to haunt her, and if it did, this wouldn’t be the first work I read where someone tried to make an innocuous but highly contagious disease, only to find out to their chagrin that they had created a highly deadly, highly contagious disease instead, and if they’d only looked at their test data more closely, they’d have known before the population they cared about were suffering and dying from it.
Marduk
Mortality is kind of implied if HEV stands for Human Extinction Virus.
Guesticules
Thought it was called ‘HEX Virus’
Weiser
There’s nothing like a comfortable, undisturbed working environment.
Guesticules
Initially, though ‘Angie’ was a lost love that Sar was thinking of, but then realized she is the computer (and no, nothing needs to be changed to make it ‘clearer’ 🙂 )
FilledWithLoveAndEvil
Is this Sariel handling the virus like Tirin said, or is this the origin of the Tirin Clone Wars?
Will Sariel give the order to, ‘Execute Order 69’?
Is Cadence and her ‘Bad Batch’ actually the lesser (least?) of the evils?
Will Tirin and Reny really walk away and say, “Not my circus, not my 12 monkeys.”?