Now, any kind of worldwide virulent outbreak is, fictional or otherwise, a terrifying notion
in its own right - but much like with many other things that it delivers us, that horrifying
organisation known only as the SCP Foundation - has one particular plague that would hypothetically
bring this planet to its knees in a flesh-based campaign of amorphous conglomeration.
Let me introduce you to SCP-610 - one of the Foundation’s deadliest entries under containment
- and over the course of this video, we’re going to outline the hypothetical implications
of a planet ravaged by a disease like no other.
The Flesh That Hates.
Oh, and also - on top of being a highly contagious flesh-plague - it’s also worshipped by a
cult of fanatic followers.
It’s probably best that I mention that, isn’t it?
Hello internet - what’s going on, and once again welcome back to the most inquisitive
channel on YouTube - Life’s Biggest Questions.
As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as today, we curiously
ask the question - What If SCP-610 Infected The Planet?
Roll the clip.
Uh.
Gross.
But trust me guys, that’s nothing compared to what lies ahead.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from 2011’s prequel to John Carpenter’s
1982 classic - The Thing - and for the most part, the viral mechanics of The Thing are
a glaring visual cue to just exactly what we’re dealing with.
Vile piles of flesh - all mushed up together.
Uh.
Yeah, let’s not get ahead of ourselves - but I hope you’ve all got strong gastric constitutions.
For those of you that haven’t seen our video on the more basic outline of SCP-610 - now
would be high time to check out our LBQ video on it - but for those of you that haven’t,
here's a quick overview.
As the record states, SCP-610 is a keter class anomalous entity, that at first glance, appears
to be a highly contagious skin disease transmitted by contact.
And while it definitely is as simple as that, there is much more to SCP-610 than first meets
the eye.
After a subject has been infected by the disease, they first exhibit symptoms that include a
rash, itching and highly increased skin sensitivity.
Within three hours the disease will cause blemishes that resemble heavy scar tissue,
often forming in the chest and arm areas - spreading to the legs and back within an additional
hour - and after five hours - completely consuming the victim in infectious scar tissue.
But unfortunately for them - this flesh-based-virulent-rollercoaster has only just begun.
After the infection completely consumes the victim - all signs and functions of life will
cease for approximately three minutes.
After that, heart rate and brain activity triple - and the scar tissue that previously
consumed them will begin to move on its own accord, growing at a rapid rate - often completely
stripping the victim of all resemblance of humanity.
This is the point in infection where things get really - really bad - and victims often
exhibit the growth of extra limbs - and arms and legs suddenly start shooting out of places
that they really shouldn’t.
Strangely though, in certain cases - victims of SCP-610 seem to split into two camps, those
that move freely - and those that become part of the furniture.
And I mean that literally.
Under unknown conditions, an infected individual will cease moving and place itself in a location
it deems suitable - and roots itself - after which, its fleshy growths begin spreading
across the affected area - thus furthering the suitable areas of infection.
The other camp - the ones that move freely - well yeah, they do exactly what you expect
- run toward you with arms wide open, gurgling like the fleshy plague-carriers that they
are - hoping to hug their next helpless human.
Alright, chums up - let’s do this.
Do not hug these people under any circumstances.
Okay?
Okay.
Now, as the Foundation states - SCP-610 is widely considered to be relatively contained
- due to it’s isolated area of infection.
As far as the Foundation are concerned though, the area that the disease affects are a series
of villages close to Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia - and because of it’s remote proximity
to any other population - keeping tabs from a distance has proven to be a worthwhile remedy
- given the fact that they can’t send any humans to the area, as risk of infection is
close to 100% certain.
That doesn’t stop them from sending robot rovers in though to gather intel.
Brave little fellas.
But we’re not concerned with that, because under this hypothetical play-by-play - SCP-610
has just broken out of it’s containment in Southern Siberia, and that can only mean
one thing.
Remember that cult of fanatic followers that I mentioned at the beginning?
Yeah - in this scenario, the Sarkic Cult has succeeded in its mission of harnessing SCP-610
as a global pandemic - and their first campaign begins on the Eurasian continent.
Now, there are nearly 145 million people that live in Russia, spread over 17.1 million square
kilometres of pure, majestic - rough and rugged terrain - which you’d think would be a factor
in any other scenario - but not this one, because SCP-610 literally *becomes* the landscape
- exponentially furthering the influence of it’s fleshly tendrils.
Now, the nearest populated city to the Lake Baikal containment zone, is Irkutsk - that
has a population of nearly 600 thousand people.
Now, if we take the small villages in the Foundation’s containment zone as a benchmark
- which was comprised of perhaps several hundred people - a city of such large size would be
an unimaginable resource to the Sarkic Cult.
Take everything that we know about the infected sites, and then apply it to the largest city
in Siberia - and you can see that we’ve got a pretty big problem on our hands.
Or - our hands are the problem.
I’m not entirely sure.
Russia is big though.
Really, really big - and it would probably be more effort to head to Western Russia than
it would be to turn towards Mongolia, and the city of Ulaanbaatar - which, once that
becomes one with the Flesh That Hates - would be an entry way into China - and once China
was added into the fleshy fold - well, that’s really, really bad.
China has a population of 1.4 billion people - and if even a third of that succumbed to
610 - that’s still nearly 500 million people added to the fleshy, amorphous pile.
It’s safe to say that under a catastrophic outbreak - pretty much all of Asia, as well
as Europe - and the vast majority of Africa would be infected by SCP-610 - and jeez, just
imagine what kind of horrific landscape that would even look like.
Literal cities of flesh.
The skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai covered in an amorphous mass of its inhabitants - an
entire skyline of anomalous creation - the Eastern world caught off guard by the schemes
of the Sarkic Religion - only added to further the nefarious machine of the vile and grotesque
Neo-Sarkic Cult.
Highways and byways of living matter - constantly extending its fleshy tendrils and tentacles
forward, crawling like the massive lump of matter that it is.
The thing is, you may be expecting some kind of military response - but as the SCP Foundation
have found to their regret, the infected are near impervious to bullets - and they don’t
ever really die, they just get consumed all over again into the Flesh.
Flamethrowers have proven to be slightly effective against those infected by SCP-610 - but the
real kicker is that they are just too numerous to successfully combat - and if any government
was caught off guard by this rapidly spreading infection, which they definitely would be
- how could they possibly even prepare a military force capable enough to battle against an
ever-encroaching tide of human flesh?
There is a reason that the Foundation kept their distance - it’s *too* virulent - it’s
*too* effective at spreading itself - and any form of combat would require close proximity
to the infected hordes.
SO.
What’s the answer?
And although you may be thinking - nukes, Jack - it’s definitely nukes - my response
would be, not even nuclear armaments would be effective enough against literally several
continent’s worth of SCP-610.
Granted, whilst the outbreak spread its way across half the planet - the other half would
have chance to fully realise the extent of the situation and prepare.
The USA, Canada, Greenland, Iceland - perhaps the UK if they’re lucky - and pretty much
all of South America, would successfully go into a lockdown - given the fact that they
have one natural barrier against 610 - the ocean - but suddenly Alaska starts to get
very, very twitchy - and the thought of it’s close proximity to the Asian continent sends
people running for the hills all over again.
I’d like to say that humanity mustered the courage to fight back - but unless they could
create an entire army of robots to - wait a minute, that’s it!
That’s it, isn’t it.
SCP-610 cannot be fought flesh on flesh - it’s just too dangerous, it’s too risky to even
get close enough to find out - but metal on flesh … or more importantly, highly resilient
carbon fibre and a few shoulder mounted machine guns on flesh -- yeah… now we’re talking.
Then we’d have a fighting chance.
Then we might be capable of remotely holding back the amorphous tidal wave of the Flesh
That Hates.
Well, if that’s the case - all hail our new robot overlords, I guess.
I mean, surely - it’s gotta be better than being mushed up in a big ball of flesh, right?
Oh, wait - hold on a minute, who are you?
Who?
The Church of the Broken God?
Never heard of you.
*You Have Been Chosen For Ascension*
Uh.
Sorry guys, I think I’m going to have to go now.
Well, there we have it - our comprehensive play by play to the hypothetical question
- What If SCP-610 Infected The Planet.
What do you guys think?
Why don’t you let us know your thoughts down in the comment section below.
Before we depart though, let’s take a quick look at some of your more resounding SCP based
remarks from over the past few days.
First up, Weeb says --
What if the 05 Council fought LifesBiggestQuestions?
-- Ehh -- well, I’d like to see them try.
The last time they had a pop at that - the whole SCP-2317 thing happened - and that wasn’t
pretty.
Next up - Junker Fan says --
Jack Finch, I realised that narrating these LBQ SCP videos is perhaps your Special Containment
Procedure.
May I note this down?
--- Oh.
Well Junker Fan, finally - someone has figured it out.
I’m one step closer.
Of course Junker Fan - note it down to your heart's content.
Well on that note folks, unfortunately that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s video
- cheers for sticking around all the way until the end.
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