A Virus that would target the rich?

[vimto]

What did the Victorians ever do for us?

 

[Callie]

Legionella is good if you want to try to kill off office workers? that any good?

 

[pilchardman]

What did the Victorians ever do for us?

Brown Windsor Soup?

 

[vimto]

Brown Windsor Soup?

Ok...apart from Brown Windsor Soup...what have the Victorians ever done for us?

 

[oisleep]

all of them?

 

[vimto]

all of them?

Splitter

 

[oisleep]

spitter

 

[vimto]

Any royalists hanging about

 

[laptop]

Ok...apart from Brown Windsor Soup...what have the Victorians ever done for us?

Drains?

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Test match cricket.

 

[laptop]

Test match cricket.

Hmm... a bug that infests cricket whites, but is only infectious after three days?

 

[Random]

"The man, Henri le Clerque, was attempting to poison the mineral spring in france which is the source of all the world's Perrier water. Had he succeeded experts believe the middle class would have been wiped out within three weeks."
http://scifijunkie.com/red_dwarf/scripts/2/betterthanlife.htm

 

[undercover]

Eastern Equine Encephalitus (look it up, I did!!) spread though Polo horses?

 

[pilchardman]

"The man, Henri le Clerque, was attempting to poison the mineral spring in france which is the source of all the world's Perrier water. Had he succeeded experts believe the middle class would have been wiped out within three weeks."
http://scifijunkie.com/red_dwarf/scripts/2/betterthanlife.htm

 

[Fuchs66]

That's no good: lots of poor people don't eat Turkey Twislers.

I think the pheasant thing is good. Maybe if partridges caught the virus, too...that'd mop up the Trots into the bargain!

What about all the poor poachers?

I quite like a bit of pheasant.

 

[WouldBe]

A computer virus.

Anyone with more than £X in ther bank accounts and it gets transferred to a charity.

The rich then die having to get of their arses and work for a change.

 

[andrewwyld]

Carrying on from a discussion with Random, which was about how a flu virus would target the poor, I wondered what characteristics a virus would need to target the rich.

Any econo-ethnomethodological immunologists out there?

If there were a disease which was relatively harmless but had an insanely expensive and dangerous treatment, then that would take out all the rich idiots.

However, if you want the rich dead as a class, I think you are just going to have to find and kill them.