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[alcheregis]

[ Contrasting with her normal bubbly demeanor, Haen is a grumpy little geneticist today. She had been caught in the same affliction, but had broken out of it part way through. In light of that, she has... entirely different priorities. ]

I don't care how catchy it sounds, this is not a 'plague'.

Medically this isn't a plague, or an epidemic-- there's absolutely nothing biological about the makeup of whatever this is to qualify it as pandemic at all. If you need proof, I can whip up something localized and show it to you, but good guanines, stop giving perfectly legitimate infectious diseases a bad name!

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[jeaniegrey]

What would you call it then? [ There's a pause, not meaning to sound rude. ] I didn't even know that's what it was being called.

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[alcheregis]

Hm, 'affliction' is perfectly fine! Or contagion. Or malady! Malady's a lovely word, really, it's got such cadence to it, don't you think?

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[jeaniegrey]

It's definitely not one you hear all that often?

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[alcheregis]

Well, I've certainly never been accused of doing things the normal way!

[ She sounds so pleased about that, too... ]

That's not to say I wouldn't like to get my little genessi hands on what is causing this, of course.

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[h2no]

This infectious disease plague epidemic sure is worryin', huh?

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[alcheregis]

That's really not funny, you know. How would you like people purposely calling you by the wrong name even when you told them to stop?

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[h2no]

I'd think I have bigger things to worry about than semantics.

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[alcheregis]

[ she huffs ] Immutable facts aren't semantics, dear.

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[h2no]

Y'could call it a plague, I reckon. It's spreadin' fast and no-one can stop it. Ain't that somethin' like a plague?

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[alcheregis]

I get the feeling you're being intentionally obtuse...

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[h2no]

Me? Never!

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[alcheregis]

Then everything's fine! But if you really must, call it plague-like, I suppose that much I can allow.

[inmemoriae]

I have been saying as much. Honestly, there isn't anything to suggest something remotely infectious--not physically so, at any rate.

Though, I believe many would use such phrases due to the familiarity of the term. Hardly acceptable within respected fields, but understandable given the circumstances. Perhaps if we understood the cause it could be better classed as a specific form of affliction.

[alcheregis]

[ A like mind is always welcome. ]

Precisely that! There's no call to take the easy way out, or the easy way in either for that matter.

But that's why I don't mind coding something demonstrative, if people can't see the difference.

[inmemoriae]

Nothing about this situation is easy, so to speak.

...And exactly what would you code as a demonstration?

[alcheregis]

It's funny, isn't it? You'd think the easy part would be the sleeping.

Hmmm~ probably a cute little dengue virus! It has really lovely genome bases of of positive-sense single stranded RNA... very pretty!

[inmemoriae]

Those I've observed seem to be distraught, as if in a nightmare. If that's true, then I would hardly count it as an easy experience.

Interesting. But is it particularly dangerous? If so, any such simulation may be best left alone, lest someone get ideas to...allow it to spread among a public already afflicted.

[alcheregis]

Not particularly dangerous, no. Just the usual symptoms: high fever, severe headaches, pain of the joints and muscles, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, skin rash and bruising, and mild bleeding such as the nose and gums!