all I got is something something handwave earth magic something.
Like, even if you squash Schrödinger's Plague-Infected Flea immediately after it bites the assassinee, unless the plague has a faster-than-Ebola onset and mortality such that there's no possibility of an outbreak rather than an isolated death and/or the assassinee is in the middle of a desert at the time, somebody is going to be exposed! Is the contagious period somehow contained by magic? Is there a reason they couldn't just assassinate this person using straight-up magic which didn't require vector-borne infections? [edit] I understand, something something handwave earth magic something. But even so! Unless it's a handwave earth magic vaccine and disinfectant, this plan remains terrible. [edit edit] I can see I am going to have to read this book in order to determine how much I feel I need to argue with it.
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Like, even if you squash Schrödinger's Plague-Infected Flea immediately after it bites the assassinee, unless the plague has a faster-than-Ebola onset and mortality such that there's no possibility of an outbreak rather than an isolated death and/or the assassinee is in the middle of a desert at the time, somebody is going to be exposed! Is the contagious period somehow contained by magic? Is there a reason they couldn't just assassinate this person using straight-up magic which didn't require vector-borne infections? [edit] I understand, something something handwave earth magic something. But even so! Unless it's a handwave earth magic vaccine and disinfectant, this plan remains terrible. [edit edit] I can see I am going to have to read this book in order to determine how much I feel I need to argue with it.