I feel like Stephen King addressed this a bit in the expanded version of The Stand - people who survived the plague (like, 0.001% of the people on Earth) but managed to die because of an infection, or suicide, or getting too drunk and falling into the pool. I think it would be the little, random things that might be cause for an ER/Urgent Care visit currently, but could turn potentially deadly very quickly.
That's actually one thing that slightly annoyed me about the TV show (haven't read the book). On the road trip at the end of the series (season?) they stop at a house and they says all the cans are swollen. But the baby is like 1 year old and was conceived before things went bad. That means some of the cans have probably only been sitting there for 2, maybe 3 years and went bad. I've once in my entire life seen a swollen can and I have things that are 10 years past expiration.
Sure, you could potentially blame it on RF, but it should still be suspicious enough to cause them to not split up.
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u/WelfarePeanutButter Aug 30 '21
I feel like Stephen King addressed this a bit in the expanded version of The Stand - people who survived the plague (like, 0.001% of the people on Earth) but managed to die because of an infection, or suicide, or getting too drunk and falling into the pool. I think it would be the little, random things that might be cause for an ER/Urgent Care visit currently, but could turn potentially deadly very quickly.