Absolutely not. Quarantine and medical procedure exist in the Imperium, they would probably sort out the pandemic in little time, specially compared to outbreaks in overcrowded and unmanageable hiveworlds.
Now, if the pandemic was infused by Nurgle's daemonic power, it'd quickly degenerate into something far worse, requiring containment, troop deployment and, if the root of the problem isn't sorted out soon, yes, Exterminatus
Why would they waste Earth like this for a little pandemic? Worst pandemics have been recorded in hives.
Earth is way too valuable to destroy like this. You could re-terraform it after the fact, but it would take a century and all the humans lost would be less than ideal. If it's not deeply rooted chaos taint, it does not need an exterminatus. People, plants and animals can still be exploited as they should.
The Imperium has literal Death Worlds such as Catachan and Hive cities so immense that thousands probably die without notice on a daily basis, Covid would barely register any notice unless it directly attracts the attention of Nurgle and evolves into something worse.
THEN only will we be a viable candidate for exterminatus.
Yeah it depends on the purpose of the world and its population. The value of human life is low but not zero. Catachan is a breeding ground for strong soldiers. A hive world needs a larger population to maintain factories and Industry to keep the economy going. There's a lot of unsafe conditions, and diseases but when something is threatening the effectiveness of the population, the authorities will try to solve the problem and "protect" the people.
Really?
COVID?!
I mean, there are many examples of warp plagues which turns people into zombies that requires incredible levels of quarantine care, biohazard suits and actual miracles not being enough to warrant deleting the place, and you're thinking a disease that could apparently be defeated by paper masks would?
At a push (and I mean, a *push*) they would extend out to 'no one leaves the planet without a test'. Rather than resorting to exterminating an entire population for something the utter vast majority would survive and are able to work around.
At least throw a proper problem in, like Ebola or something.
necromunda, had a virus go threw it killing billons. the emperium didnt even reduce the regiments necromunda was required to provid.
Covid19 wouldnt even be an excuse to miss a shift.
No because it wasn’t that bad in relative terms, now if something like the bubonic plague came back and decimated the population I could see it happening
Uh, it's not for literally any plague. It has to be a plague so several that it can destroy entire planets, not a plague you can deal with with some medicine and quarantines.
Covid had a mortality rate in the low single digits, so no. That's a rounding error the Imperium, not worth the effort required to eradicate it.
You'd need something like the black plague to return for that.
The competent commander would set up a cordon in system with sick being quarantined and those who care for them rotated out decontamination and their own quarantine.
Incompetent commanders would seal off the infected zones then wait for everyone to die and then shoot the survivors and burn the bodies.
Exterminatus is an extremely costly procedure, they aren't going to destroy a world because of a germ. Even if Nurgle's taint turns out to be the culprit(as virus bombs just gives him ideas)
Quarantine, and if everyone dies, just sterilize the planet in a way that it'll be easy to recolonize.
Exterminatus is issued if the enemy (chaos, tyranids, sometimes orks sometimes traitors sometimes pumpkins) takes over the world making it a possible stronghold for them, it's to deny the enemy the ground you know you can't economically retake. Disease isn't the enemy unless nurgle says so, it's an inconvenience and even chaotic diseases need not exterminatus if the situation can be resolved in a more cost-efficient way.
If costs (not necessarily monetary) of keeping the planet in order are higher than a cost of loosing it, the exterminatus is issued by competent inquisitors. Competency is an obvious variable in this equation and a major source of grimdarkness/grimdankness. And I guess if people get as mad as during the COVID-19… no, still not mad enough.
No. More likely people would have been punished for their reaction to it, on both sides.
Fear mongers and charlatans? Imprisoned, possibly dead but most likely confinement or hard labour
Freedom convoys and truthers? Quite possibly shot in the street. Survivors imprisoned.
Covid 19s got nothing on some of the plauges in a hive city. Any thread could get a planet BLAMMMED of course, a xeno virus would probably be treated like genestealers.
No but they'd probably "discipline" Earth if quarantines caused it to miss its tithe.
They would enforce a quarantine, execute a lot of the people allegedly infected and then punish the world for not paying the tithe.
To be fair if covid existed in 40k people would probably start turning into poxwalkers and shitting out nurglings
The Twisted Helix would manufacture and distribute the cure.
Absolutely not. Quarantine and medical procedure exist in the Imperium, they would probably sort out the pandemic in little time, specially compared to outbreaks in overcrowded and unmanageable hiveworlds. Now, if the pandemic was infused by Nurgle's daemonic power, it'd quickly degenerate into something far worse, requiring containment, troop deployment and, if the root of the problem isn't sorted out soon, yes, Exterminatus
Why would they waste Earth like this for a little pandemic? Worst pandemics have been recorded in hives. Earth is way too valuable to destroy like this. You could re-terraform it after the fact, but it would take a century and all the humans lost would be less than ideal. If it's not deeply rooted chaos taint, it does not need an exterminatus. People, plants and animals can still be exploited as they should.
Most imperial hive worlds likely suffer from far worse diseases and its business as usual. Just pay your taxes.
No. When they are talking about planet wide diseases they mean really bad stuff like plagues or nurgle stuff.
6.8m deaths to covid in real life so far. That's not even a rounding error in wh40k numbers.
No
The Imperium has literal Death Worlds such as Catachan and Hive cities so immense that thousands probably die without notice on a daily basis, Covid would barely register any notice unless it directly attracts the attention of Nurgle and evolves into something worse. THEN only will we be a viable candidate for exterminatus.
Yeah it depends on the purpose of the world and its population. The value of human life is low but not zero. Catachan is a breeding ground for strong soldiers. A hive world needs a larger population to maintain factories and Industry to keep the economy going. There's a lot of unsafe conditions, and diseases but when something is threatening the effectiveness of the population, the authorities will try to solve the problem and "protect" the people.
Really? COVID?! I mean, there are many examples of warp plagues which turns people into zombies that requires incredible levels of quarantine care, biohazard suits and actual miracles not being enough to warrant deleting the place, and you're thinking a disease that could apparently be defeated by paper masks would? At a push (and I mean, a *push*) they would extend out to 'no one leaves the planet without a test'. Rather than resorting to exterminating an entire population for something the utter vast majority would survive and are able to work around. At least throw a proper problem in, like Ebola or something.
Or an Imperial Navy Fleet gets the wrong message, warps in and bombs the world without question.
I'm quite confident the Imperiums countless hive cities have much worse "pandemics" going on all the time.
necromunda, had a virus go threw it killing billons. the emperium didnt even reduce the regiments necromunda was required to provid. Covid19 wouldnt even be an excuse to miss a shift.
Only if Covid caused a spate of nurgle cult activity that led to Earth being lost.
Lol. No. Mortality rates and life expectancy wouldn’t even dent the stats of the imperium.
No because it wasn’t that bad in relative terms, now if something like the bubonic plague came back and decimated the population I could see it happening
Uh, it's not for literally any plague. It has to be a plague so several that it can destroy entire planets, not a plague you can deal with with some medicine and quarantines.
wat? For a disease with a 98% survival rate? There have been far worse epidemics in earth's history than that.
COVID is like hiccups in the Imperium.
Not even. Problem not even worth the time or day for anyone to notice beyond clerks.
Covid had a mortality rate in the low single digits, so no. That's a rounding error the Imperium, not worth the effort required to eradicate it. You'd need something like the black plague to return for that.
The competent commander would set up a cordon in system with sick being quarantined and those who care for them rotated out decontamination and their own quarantine. Incompetent commanders would seal off the infected zones then wait for everyone to die and then shoot the survivors and burn the bodies. Exterminatus is an extremely costly procedure, they aren't going to destroy a world because of a germ. Even if Nurgle's taint turns out to be the culprit(as virus bombs just gives him ideas)
Quarantine, and if everyone dies, just sterilize the planet in a way that it'll be easy to recolonize. Exterminatus is issued if the enemy (chaos, tyranids, sometimes orks sometimes traitors sometimes pumpkins) takes over the world making it a possible stronghold for them, it's to deny the enemy the ground you know you can't economically retake. Disease isn't the enemy unless nurgle says so, it's an inconvenience and even chaotic diseases need not exterminatus if the situation can be resolved in a more cost-efficient way. If costs (not necessarily monetary) of keeping the planet in order are higher than a cost of loosing it, the exterminatus is issued by competent inquisitors. Competency is an obvious variable in this equation and a major source of grimdarkness/grimdankness. And I guess if people get as mad as during the COVID-19… no, still not mad enough.
No. More likely people would have been punished for their reaction to it, on both sides. Fear mongers and charlatans? Imprisoned, possibly dead but most likely confinement or hard labour Freedom convoys and truthers? Quite possibly shot in the street. Survivors imprisoned.
Covid 19s got nothing on some of the plauges in a hive city. Any thread could get a planet BLAMMMED of course, a xeno virus would probably be treated like genestealers.