# What would you do after surviving a 95% fatal pandemic?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 19, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-after-surviving-a-95-fatal-pandemic/616239 "2012-03-19T16:32:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-after-surviving-a-95-fatal-pandemic/616239/10 "2012-03-19T18:39:37Z")

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My whole life, I have wished for this sort of an event.

I always said that if I had the button that would break the vial, or whatever, I would like to think I would do it, even with no guarantees that I would be a survivor. Not to blow up the planet, or kill the biosphere, etc- just to reduce the human population by a huge margin- at least 90%, but more preferably 95%- or even 98-99% still leaves 700,000 people, and seven hundred thousand people isn’t a tiny number, although it is small for the planet.

Of course, after I became a father, any pretentions that I might risk the kiddos, or even myself as a guardian of those kiddos- became a stupid thing I said as a young adult, immature and stupid.

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