I like this, but there needs to be a reason why everyone wouldn't just infect themselves with it on a regular basis… perhaps make the influenza strain an extremely dangerous one that kills people?
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Ahh! Sorry, people, I'm not done iwth the article yet. D:
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You are necroposting to a post that is 2608 days old, or over 7 years old. In addition, the article is indeed fully done, and you can infer this from the edit history and the comments the author has made in this thread. There's also the fact that, yes, a lot of authors back then posted articles that weren't done. That was okay and fine by the site culture then. It is not now, because again, it's been seven years since that post.
Please do not make necroposts, and also not criticize the author for something they haven't done (as the article is indeed finished).
"This doesn't seem like it belongs on a horror site yet… I know! It kills people!"
The fact that the process is sickly nauseating isn't enough?
I think you misunderstood my post, and in retrospect, it's not very clear: I'm saying that when you've got a disease that not only makes you continually vomit, but also makes you vomit up OBJECTS, there's a good possibility that there will be fatalities from dehydration, throat lacerations, etc. I'd expect to see notes about how X number of subjects would up hospitalized or dead from being infected by this disease. At the moment, it feels like, "get flu, vomit up machinegun, ???, profit."
I dunno, maybe I just don't find the idea of vomiting a lot scary… just disgusting and a nuisance.
We should probably let her FINISH this one first before we critique.
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Please, everybody, wait untill I'm done and post up the link on the forums.
I'm not certain how useful it would be, but perhaps the Foundation could use, I don't know, an X-ray or something to figure out exactly where these things are coming from? If nothing else, it would answer one small question… and maybe raise a few more.
I would suggest replacing containment procedures (airtight, frozen blocks at -5degC) with something closer to real life.
I suggest should be subject to Biohazard category 4 handling and storage procedures, and stored at -70degC.
This is how a real virus like this would be stored. (at -5 deg the virus would probably be "dead" within a week).
It might also be nice touch to refer to shots of tamiflu to be kept alongside for emergency use in accidental exposure.
'Similar to a common infection, SCP-383 will work its way through the human body naturally within a few days, or faster with routine antibiotics.'
…..you don't treat a virus with antibiotics. Antibiotics are for bacterial infections. Also, if it's a single, nonmutating strain, you can innoculate people against it quite easily the same way flu vaccines work now. The main reasons people still get the flu is because A) The antibodies 'expire', and the immune system can become overwhelmed by other infections leading to an opportunistic infection by something else, B) there's thousands of flu strains, and the vaccines only have room for a few strains - The makers have to guess which strains are likely to be the most common for the year, and C) They can't make enough for everybody given the limited amount of time between there being enough data to make an assumption and when the infections are likely to hit. At least it's not like the common cold, which mutates almost fast enough that you can give it to *yourself*.
^Seconded
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Although SCP-383 may seem useful in a pinch
Bad tone.
Also this is a neat idea but all I can think of is a Solid Snake parody where he pukes up various items he needs such as cigarettes, a gun, and an inflatable raft, it also doesn't help that the virus can provide situation specific items (how is it aware that its host is trapped in a cell?)
Nearly everything about this article irritates me. Similar articles contain similar annoyances, but this one is coated with inaccuracies and dubious statements. You can guess how I voted.
and protective goggles (optional if personnel already wear prescription glasses.)
Not the same thing at all. Modern goggles are designed to fit over and around prescription glasses, which offer nearly no protection by themselves, and you still haven't addressed the ingestion hazard.
By face mask, do you mean a face shield?
Is there an inhalation hazard? If so, you would want a N95 Mask at a minimum, but the Foundation would probably insist on HAZMAT suit w/ PAPR, or HEPA Respirator, or SCBA.
All suspected and confirmed infections of SCP-383 will be treated with personnel, and anyone they have had direct contact within the frame of infection
Are you going to rub Foundation personnel on the infected people?
I think you mean infected personnel will be treated.
Also, influenza (and just about every other infectious agent) is spread by direct AND indirect contact, and frequently aerosolization. You'd want to treat the whole area, not just immediate contacts.
fully flushed from the system
You gonna test patient's the entire blood supply with the help of a dialysis machine? How about "until the patient has two consecutive negative diagnostic tests."
Along with bringing up the contents of the host's stomach,
Are the terms "vomiting" or "emesis" entirely new or somehow foreign?
weakening of the immune system
An active infection will obviously affect the immune system. I recommend specifics (unless it's like nearly every other infection) or omit this statement.
abilities through fecal excretion instead.
I think you mean "in fecal excretions" or "excreted through the anus." Also, thanks for the lovely image this created. It's the only scary / shocking part of this article for me.
Extra risk may be taken to prevent further strains of SCP-383 from developing, as a strain capable of infecting nonhuman entities or with an entirely fatal reaction could prove disastrous.
"Extra PRECAUTIONS may be taken…" How does the foundation perform these precautionary measures? Infections occurring outside Foundation control will continue to evolve and change regardless of human intervention unless the Foundation is able to completely eradicate it. The risk is obvious.
The addendum doesn't make sense. It's either [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED], or put a warning on a collapsible for Level 4+, or just delete if you have nothing to put there.
Was going to post, but Deaddebate hit all my points, and then some.
I want to upvote this, but there are too many issues.
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