ALVIN VIRUS Pathophysiology in THE SADNESS Explored | Member of the Rabies Virus Family Explained

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Or in an alternate reality the ALVIN Virus, effects may include swollen cheeks and a high pitched voice

A 20% infection rate is actually pretty terrifying when you consider 1 in every 5 people who go insane when infected are essentially now borderline unrestrained murderers. At least with zombies you could make efforts to outsmart them, meanwhile these fully functional infected can get creative in their pursuit in how they want to end their victims.

Honestly, the whole premise of Crossed left me scarred for days. The idea that there's a highly infectious near-instantaneous virus that turns people into r*pist sadist zombies left me with a sense of dread. A swarm of zombies capable of coordinating, tracking, using weapons/vehicles, employing psychological warfare, and using their infectiousness to their advantage, you are left thinking how you'd even stand a chance.

25:00 I find it terrifying that, hypothetically, since the virus brings out the most sadistic urges of a person while keeping their intellect intact, then there were likely some infected that were aware that rather than brute violence, simply spreading the infection as much as possible would cause the most suffering. It's likely that there were carriers who were quietly infecting others as silently and quickly as possible.

Also, judging by the massive dilation of the pupils and the filling of the eye with blood from capillary hemorrhages I would speculate that the virus is also attacking/stimulating the adrenal glands to massively overproduce adrenaline. A nonstop adrenaline rush would further explain the infected subject's extreme tolerance for pain, greater than normal strength and stamina, and it also causes anxiety and irritability of some kind in most people too, which will further exacerbate the limbic system disorder causing hyperaggression. In addition the Adrenals play a part in testosterone production, and while it's not true that testosterone causes aggression, elevated levels do result in disinhibition to risk-taking behavior, so if infected individuals are producing huge levels of adrenaline and testosterone due to the virus hyperstimulating the adrenals as well as parts of the brain, it would further explain their lack of self-preservation behavior as well as other physical symptoms like profuse sweating as the massive adrenaline overdose sends the body into permanent fight-or-flight mode and the heart races, sending more blood to the skin for heat exchange. In all likelyhood these infected will drop within a matter of dozens of hours to a few days from overwhelming cardiovascular stress and exhaustion, assuming nothing else does them in first.

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A virus that causes the part of the brain which allows us to curb impulses, would be scary. I've seen syphilis patients with such symptoms. They require 24/7 monitoring.

What i found interesting about Crossed was that damaged brains weren't completely taken over by the virus. They were still violent and sadistic but they were able to control their urges to some degree. Drug over-use, psychopaths and even people who had seizures were, funnily enough, the calmest of the infected.

This movie is probably the closest we'll get a Crossed live-action adaptation.

To me the scariest parts of movies like this is the fact that they're trapped in their bodies seeing all this happening and can't stop it so you have to wonder if some of the madness they display is from their minds breaking in general from what they've done. I've always wondered it about some zombie movies and games too.

Folks use to say, “ln real life, gov’t and people in general would never allow this to happen” The last two years have proven them wrong. Thank god, this scenario or worse never happened

Bro the eye thing is probably the scariest part for me. That's gotta be insanely painful.

Early 2000’s we had a rabies outbreak at Ft Belvior. I always remember looking out the back porch seeing squirrels hissing and spitting while mp’s we’re running away. It was strangely interesting to watch squirrels charging people and dogs.

I think that's an interesting and honestly more scary take on the zombie/infected trope. YOu're not runned by unnatural hunger, but by an actually addiction to extreme pleasures, emphase on extreme.

This movie, (and the comic series Crossed, which inspired the film), is really morbidly fascinating to me. From a psychological perspective, I'm intrigued by the connection between happiness, pleasure, pain, and violence, and how those things interact with each other in an unstable brain that is devoid of any moral compass. That's why the end scene really stuck with me - hearing Jim tell Kat how much he loves her, how she is his purpose in life, immediately followed by graphic descriptions of how he wants to physically torture her, well.... that's interesting to say the least. It reminds me a bit of the cenobites from Hellraiser, how they are so depraved that they can no longer differentiate between pleasure and pain, and they just crave extreme sensations in every direction.

That zoom in on his smiling face even as he hears the gunshots was chilling

12:35 made me laugh so hard, having a poor woman chained up desperately trying to call for help and then Anime Maid with Tig Bitties

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Well, thank you for making me completely horrified in hindsight about the time I was bitten by a stray dog. I went to get the rabies shot almost immediately, but i didn't really think about how potentially close I was to being completely ruined and dying horribly.