The Last of Us | Episode 1 | Fungus Pandemic Takeover Explained Perfectly

yes any kind of virus but most probably something similar to influenza because of air travel through the year there's coffee I'm sorry I meant people on planes that was something you described in your book yes a new virus in Madagascar say it could be in Chicago within a matter of weeks and we end up with a global pandemic and meaning all the whole world becomes sickle at once and Dr Newman you're also an epidemiologist I presume the prospect of a viral pandemic keeps you up at night as well no no no well that's our show no mankind has been at war with a virus from the start sometimes millions of people die as in an actual War but in the end we always win but you uh just to be clear you you do think microorganisms pose a threat or in the most dire terms bacteria no you like saying no yes not bacteria not viruses so fungus yes that's the usual response fungi seem harmless enough many species know otherwise because there are some fungi who seek not to kill but to control let me ask you where do we get LSD from where do you get it from it comes from ergot a fungus psilocybin also a fungus viruses can make us ill but fungi can alter our very Minds there's a fungus that infects insects gets inside an ant for example travels through its circulatory system to the ant's brain and then floods it with hallucinogens thus bending the ants mind to its will fungus starts to direct the ant's Behavior telling it where to go what to do like a puppeteer with a marionette and it gets worse the fungus needs food to live so it begins to devour its host from within replacing the ants flesh with its own but it doesn't let its victim die no it it keeps its puppet Alive by preventing decomposition how where do we get penicillin from fungus Dr schoenheit you're in distress fungal infection of this kind is real but not in humans true fungi cannot survive if it's host's internal temperature is over 94 degrees and currently there are no reasons for fungi to evolve to be able to withstand higher temperatures but what if that were to change what if for instance the world were to get slightly warmer wow now there is reason to evolve one Gene mutates and an ascomycetia candida ergot cordyceps aspergillus any one of them could become capable of burrowing into our brains and taking control not of millions of us but billions of us billions of puppets with poisoned Minds permanently fixed on one unifying goal to spread the infection to every last human alive by any means necessary and there are no treatments for this no preventatives no cures they don't exist it's not even possible to make them so if that happens we lose we'll be back

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Length: 3min 11sec (191 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 17 2023