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13. No shit. It's 50% fatal now even with appropriate treatment

Fri Apr 21, 2017, 02:42 PM

Apr 2017

because the window to start treatment is small.

I survived it 8 years ago. It wouldn't have been a bad way to go, actually.

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Apocalypse, how? A survival guide to the end of the world [View all] bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 OP

If you want to survive, forget about stockpiling MREs and gunz Warpy Apr 2017 #1

Garlic has been used as an antibiotic for centuries. bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #2

Bags of garlic? Good luck with that. Warpy Apr 2017 #3

Aged garlic does work on wounds. bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #4

Medicinal Garlic bucolic_frolic Apr 2017 #6

And do you know what the death rate from sepsis was? Warpy Apr 2017 #12

And do you know there wont be any pharmacies in a post-apocalyptic world? bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #14

There are NOW and that's rather the point Warpy Apr 2017 #15

There are survivalists who are stockpiling holistic antibiotics as well bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #16

That crap doesn't work Warpy Apr 2017 #17

Yeah, it's not going to work for those know-it-all dopes bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #19

.... Warpy Apr 2017 #20

........................ bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #21

Sepsis... NeoGreen Apr 2017 #9

You'd be amazed at garlic's potency against bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #10

No shit. It's 50% fatal now even with appropriate treatment Warpy Apr 2017 #13

That had to suck bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #18

This reckless and insane bluffing buffoon DK504 Apr 2017 #8

I doubt our allies in Europe would be spared bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 #11

:D michael44 Apr 2017 #7