HELL NO, IM NOT SADISTIC! I MEANT THE GENERAL STORY, I KNOW IT WOULDN'T END WELL, BUT I JUST LIKE ALTERNATE HISTORY.
Pandemic '97 - A TL By Rillium
- Thread starter Rillium
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Yeah I think you guys have worked out that this is gonna get really brutal, so if you don't like a good doomsday pandemic scenario then maybe it's not the TL you want. @Otakuninja9000 thanks for saying that you're looking forward to it, ignore the other dude 
Ok. I'm actually Ok with this scenario.Yeah I think you guys have worked out that this is gonna get really brutal, so if you don't like a good doomsday pandemic scenario then maybe it's not the TL you want. @Otakuninja9000 thanks for saying that you're looking forward to it, ignore the other dude
WanderingProfessor
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Potentially me as well since my parents would not meet under the same circumstances and might not even give birth because of the Asian bird flu being far more widespread and lasting up until the new millennium at the latest.
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I know this won't be included in the update but I wonder if cash strapped Roskosmos will accelerate the de-orbiting of the aging Soviet/Russian Mir space station, thanks to the chaos of the pandemic.
The International Space Station which was first launched in 1998 will most likely be delayed or outright cancelled by the destruction caused by the pandemic.
Will the Space Shuttle program even survive the funding cuts brought by the pandemic...
This timeline will be an absolute travesty for Space exploration no what happens. We're going to be set back by a least a decade or more...
The International Space Station which was first launched in 1998 will most likely be delayed or outright cancelled by the destruction caused by the pandemic.
Will the Space Shuttle program even survive the funding cuts brought by the pandemic...
This timeline will be an absolute travesty for Space exploration no what happens. We're going to be set back by a least a decade or more...
WanderingProfessor
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Most media that were made in OTL's 1997 are going to be delayed as well to another year or two with lockdowns and mask mandates becoming common place much earlier.
When you say “butterfly”, I hope that means that Columbine is completely eradicated ITTL rather than get any worse…
WanderingProfessor
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Potentially 9/11 as well since all flights would be suspended or under tight regulation which means that Osama bin Laden and his conspirators can't hijack any American planes.
If Columbine won’t happen at all, then my guess is there will probably be some other kind of alternate event later on that’ll have the same impact as Columbine did (if you’ve ever read the TL Player Two Start and it’s sequel, Massively Multiplayer, it prevented Columbine from happening only to result in another school shooting 2 years later that created the same impact as Columbine IRL). Plus it’s not like the odds of a school shooting are completely shooed away in a pandemic, unfortunately - take a look at the real life Oxford High School shooting for example.
WanderingProfessor
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Productions like Batman and Robin and the Star Wars trilogy are going to be disrupted and released at a later date as with any potential sequels because of the much deadlier bird flu.
Oh, this is gonna make COVID look like a stomach bug by comparison.