# Stephen King's "The Stand": Vegas or Boulder?

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**Created:** [January 25, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-the-stand-vegas-or-boulder/679703 "2014-01-25T18:47:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-the-stand-vegas-or-boulder/679703/81 "2020-11-22T00:16:21Z")

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“The Stand” miniseries has been remade, and will star Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail.

In addition, I recently started re-reading the “updated” (1989) version, and realized that the earlier version could best be described as the Reader’s Digest Condensed-esque version of this. And while this would be a REEEEEEALLY tall order, this book would be great updated for the social media age. 💀

On top of all this, just last night I watched a C-SPAN podcast I had Tivo’ed about the 1918 flu epidemic, and someone mentioned that it killed approximately 0.6% of the U.S. population. Looks what THAT did to the social order, and we haven’t even gotten to 0.1% yet with COVID.

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