Isekai Yakkyoku - Ch. 30.1 - Each One's Utmost (First Part)

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Aint the water will be contaminated by the disease because of the virus within the corpse?????
 
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They are probably not drinking sea water right now. Actually salt water might be a good cleanser. Just not safe to use on the insides of people. ;)
 
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The same with this God-damned Covid-19. If you fools practiced the safety & health protocols such as wearing masks everywhere you go and stopping from going out too often, then this fucking pandemic could've ended much earlier. You morons killed yourselves, with your own hands too. Don't blame the doctors for this, they've warned you.
 
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That was a pretty bad way to deal with it the corpses can still float ashore
 
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Good thing virus can't survive in areas with high concentration of salt. The sea.
 
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The same with this God-damned Covid-19. If you fools practiced the safety & health protocols such as wearing masks everywhere you go and stopping from going out too often, then this fucking pandemic could've ended much earlier. You morons killed yourselves, with your own hands too. Don't blame the doctors for this, they've warned you.

Oh look! A genius. /s
If you had actually done any research on the matter you would have figured out by now that you can only slow it down, and not stop it entirely. Don't bother replying, I am not here to educate you.
 
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Did they do this back in 1820 and 1920? sinking ships with no one alive left on them.... or did they burn em? kinda curious....
 
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Aint the water will be contaminated by the disease because of the virus within the corpse?????

@SINderella Black Death is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria and is primarily transmitted by fleas, not water. Swimming in the immediate vicinity of a corpse, especially with an open wound, would carry a risk of infection, but generally the bacteria will not grow and spread in such an environment.
 
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Most infectious diseases don't cope well with seawater. The pathogens would have had to adapt for survival in the sea, and the ones that spread by air or aerosol usually aren't in that category.

You can see maggots on the bodies already, so putrefaction and scavengers will probably have compromised the bodies to some extent, making it easier for salt water to permeate the soft tissues.

Also, setting fire to a non-combat ship doesn't destroy it very quickly, a rain might douse the flames.
And if you think diseases may be caused by demons, you might want to keep well clear, further than throwing a molotov cocktail would warrant.
 
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i think the author choose to sink it to make a chance for the disease to reach the city by a floating corpse
 
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@Vitality It's bacteria, not virus. It still won't thrive in the sea, though, I presume. It's not its intended living environment.
 
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They probably did sink ships to be honest. Given that the amount of medical knowledge back then was pretty much chopping limbs and bleeding along with not knowing about how to prevent scurvy. I don't doubt that if they ever come up towards a boat in a similar situation like that they'd do one of two things. A: Sink the ship along with everything on board or B: Board the ship and look for survivors / cargo despite it all for profit.

Just like theres plenty of people that would take precautions theres just as many that would do anything for profit and i think thats why even with some forms of precautions illnesses like the plague were easily spread. I mean, citrus itself for preventing scruvy wasn't even known until 1753 and citrus being on ships due to that discovery wasn't recorded as a necessity for naval ships until 1795.
 
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Actual disease spread is not some magical contaminant that will instantly infect you if even one germ gets onto you.

Transmission of disease occurs when you come into contact with sufficient bacteria that it manages to multiply and breed inside your body.

Depending on the bacteria or virus, it may take hundreds or thousands of bacteria to come into contact with a person to infect them.

Bacteria in an infected person's fluids are likely to range in the hundreds of thousands of germs, so direct contact with even a drop of someone infected may cause you to be infected.

However, if you put that infected person into the ocean, the bacteria will spread out, and given there are millions of gallons of water in the ocean, the amount of bacteria will likely be maybe 1 or 2 per every few gallons of water, and you'd have to come into contact with thousands and thousands of gallons of water to get infected.

Not only that, but since sea water has high salt content, most bacteria would simply die off. So sinking a ship is not likely to be a problem, unless someone swims right by the bodies.


(Covid19 information below, skip it if you're not interested)

THIS INFORMATION IS RELEVANT IN REAL LIFE AS WELL.
Covid19 requires you to come into contact with a certain amount of infectious load to become infected. If someone infected is outside in the open air, their viral spread will be dissipated into the open air by wind and be unlikely to affect anyone, UNLESS THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER PERSON. You can also decrease the amount of virus you receive if the infected person wear a mask properly, reducing how much virus they are putting into the air, and if you wear a mask properly, reducing how much virus you breathe in.

THIS WORKS FAR LESS WELL IF YOU ARE INSIDE WITH AN INFECTED PERSON. Even if you are far away from an infected person, if you are in the same room as them for long periods of a time - 4-5 hours and there isn't any ventilation like open windows or air conditioners that actually circulate the air outside, the virus they are spreading will slowly fill the room, and give you a far higher viral load. And the more people who are in one area? The more likely SOMEONE is going to be infected in that group. Masks help slow the time, but it will still be a higher risk in an enclosed space.

WEAR A MASK. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE FROM PEOPLE. STAY AWAY FROM CROWDED AREAS. TRY NOT TO STAY IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE WITH STRANGERS. WORK FROM HOME IF YOU CAN. It's not always possible to do all these things, but the more you can do, the less viral load you will likely get, and the less chance you'll be infected badly, and you may not even get infected at all.

It's not all or nothing. EVERY LITTLE HELPS. Do what you can.
 

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