Scientists have been working around the clock to solve world
hunger for decades. They've worked on
supercrops, they've worked on streamlining delivery methods, they've worked on
condensing food and improving its preservation for long periods of time Every single plan, every single joint action,
will have failed. Until today, when you
attempt something truly startling.
It'll begin with a realization on your part that the
problem, really, is that there are so many people. With fewer people there'd be less of a need
for food. With that in mind, you started
working on what you'll call "the final solution to hunger." It'll be a disease tailored to work on about
90% of the population.
"As long as most of the people in India die we should
be alright," you'll tell your lab assistant who, desperate for employment
after getting his doctorate, will eagerly work to help you eradicate most of
humanity. With a combination of grants
from the NSF, donations from private investors and your savings, you'll have
poured every last ounce of your savings into developing this
"superdisease" that will spread through the population effectively
and leave only a small, shivering fragment of it alive.
You've been working on tailoring the disease so that it
targets poor people and brown people, but eventually that became cumbersome, so
you decided to just try to kill as many people as possible. After some horrific early tests you've
decided that your disease is ready for prime time. Today, on Christmas Eve, you're going to be
disseminating your special illness to members of your science company's HR
department before they travel home. The
disease will take three days to reach term, so the people from HR won't start
dropping dead until Boxing Day, but by the time they do everyone they've been
in contact with will be infected.
Immunize yourself, murder your assistant, and lock yourself
in your disease bunker. It's going to be
a crazy holiday season!
Congratulations on Solving World Hunger!
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