Cordyceps Infection (The Last of Us Explored) 

I was lookin for the coronavirus comment lol

fr that line didnt age well lol

Beat me to it...

@@koolaidman8305 Wow the irony in telling someone to stfu when you just displayed an arrogant moronic ignorance of the threat of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. There's currently over 700k cases with a global case mortality rate of 4.7%. To put this in perspective the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 50-100 million people had an estimated mortality rate of 2.5%. By the end of April 2020 we'll be lucky if the case totals have not reached 3 million and 100k deaths. Next time before you spout your stupidity be sure to pull your head out the dark recesses where it currently resides.

@@koolaidman8305 500,000* also the cure isnt coming until well after september so...

you lose every sign of humanity when you reach the clicker stage (you...pass away):/

Ryan C The virus kills the host after the 2 -ish stage

Samuel Bilskie I'm sorry for your lost, mate.

@Samuel Bilskie that mustve been heartbreaking to watch man im sorry u had to go thru that

So the flood from Halo?

"Zombies" that actually make sense.

Julia Huvila Cause it's real

kenzo keon gaming it is very real that’s why this game is scary. It puts into question what if this really happened? Cause it could very well happen

ali aman What are you trying to say?

Actually, the infected from TLOU aren't really zombies at all. Zombies are the undead that have come alive, but the infected in TLOU are still living it's just that fungi takes over their brain. Sorry, it just really bothers be when people call the infected from TLOU "zombies".

Ayyy im smart cause I get that reference right?

Yea

Brother, I found you!

@@solidsnake6206 it’s not really a reference, but gotta admit, 2020 definitely seems like a less dystopian aftermath of a virus

@@jelfishery yes it is lol you would know if you watched a very specific movie

I do not care if you don't live in California or Maryland good news

you can also just make one

Note to self: buy a nuke

I do not care KILL IT WITH FIRE!!

Arsenic Poisoning " the girl with all the gifts " says no, not flamethrowers

I need better headphones 😐😐

like virals in dying light

Like the headcrabs from Half Life

Its about bitting, ello was infected by a bite, tess was bite and show infection traces

Black lizard who's ello

The rude Potato chip ello my queen! do you know da wae?

Carlos Leon I do not know de wae

@@TrenElZombie there are places in the game where there are spores so you have to wear a gas mask or you'll get infected

Lol

This is why they use flamethrowers. Better cooked, and it’s like grilling mushroom burgers.

@@couldntcroptheimage4775 want some help cropping images

It's okay those aren't cordyceps

He built an immunity he will be fine

Mad Max Rockatansky well you’re fun at parties eh?

@@cellonal4807 he was explaining it dumbass bet your soooo fun at parties

Pink Sushii Not a good use of that dude..

@Mad Max Rockatansky "Only the infected. Stalkers aren't. " ???

@@cellonal4807 because discussing stuff on a comment section says alot about someones social life apparently.

Thegameres It is, my grown ass screams every time I play

It is

이정순 especially when you turn up the difficulty

The beginning will mess you up...literally

Ty I'll admit that this game made me cry more than I thought it would

Sacred Reed It convinced them that gaming *wasn't* viable?

"For someone who was extremely *skeltical* before this was incredible."

This comment has 66 likes and it makes absolutely no sense

Same here my mom doesn’t like video games all that much but likes this one due to the story

@@diamondthilay7516 Right? What the hell is skeltical? I think he means skeptical or maybe he thinks they're skeletal. WTF, give the dog a bone! 🤣🤣......and the 'likes keep coming in. There must be a lot of skeltical people out there.

I never heard them trying to say words, just heard inarticulated voices and groans. But I agree with the cries.

I do remember the cries.I thought it was a survivor but would always be attacked

Apparently stalkers don't try and fight back the infection though.

sentinel on rare occasions they’ll say “no, please” when you hit them

@@markhenley3097 Stalkers don't. Their mind and brain might be gone already. Probably the only ones Who could be cured would be The stage 1 infected, the runners, and the very recently infected

Creepy Closet Omg same!

You have infinitely more to worry about that human parasites start wars (global ones at that), destroy the natural crop system by focusing on only a few types, injecting chemicals and other pollutants into the ecosystem, push highly toxic drugs and call it 'healthcare', control all media and spew only propaganda (that's real zombification for ya), perpetrate on the masses a massively fraudulent financial system that guarantees an endless theft of our earnings and savings et al....

Ken Lee you must be fun at parties

It could happen, it only takes a few mutations

Same, I even thought about making a game about it lol

Yeah, if an ant worker notices another ant showing symptoms of cordyceps, they will move it as far away from the colony as possible. It makes sense, as the ants who did not do this were most likely wiped out by the infection, and could not reproduce.

Those ants are heroes, rip

That moment when you realize most ants perform better quarantine procedures than the entire U.S. did when Covid first broke out

@@hallowseve5801 more like the whole world

​@@Grandflea02 its not really an "infection"

Cordceps is worse

Ye but this type of infection is much much MUCH WORSE

hold my corona

Nothing like Corona

nothing like Coronavirus-19, you idiot.

koolkrespo Our immune system evolves, too. If it were able to spread to humans, it might kill or make us sick, but not transform us into Last of Us zombies.

You can eat Cordyceps fungi. It's a delicacy in China.

+Black Op You'd be more likely to die from a mutation from HIV. Cordyceps is edible to humans.

Mutates...

blacktigerpaw1 China is gonna fuck us over someday with something. That is like eating deer with Cwd or the shits which is caused by a prion

the first two were already on the list, but I'll add the Dollar Flu now. Thanks Karina! :)

Karina Stewart where’s the Dollar Flu from, I’ve never heard of it?

Green Poison (also known as Dollar Flu) is a previously unknown strain of the smallpox virus with no functional vaccine or cure (known as Smallpox Variola Chimera). .

CaptAssassin dollar flu aka green poison is from The Divison.

FilmComicsExplained Hey man, could you also do the Strain virus from the show the Strain?

CaptAssassin not a virus. it's a fungus. two entirely different things my dude

Color me corrected!

I like it, I think he should do more videos on virus' and outbreaks that can be compared to the real world more often, makes the videos have a much greater impact

Good thing is that the likelyhood of it actually happening is low, there is a too great species variation from bugs and humans. pigs and chimps are really similar to humans, and birds arent too far off. So you probably dont have to worry! Unless some madman breach the gap with gene modification it wont happen!

...(puts the gene splicing kit down)

What about .... Minecraft story mode ..... ...rueben...

Dan Mondey You should try Mother 3 🙃

Dan Mondey I’ve never cried during games or movies I lack the ability to get so emotional evolved into media

David Grau I didnt cry in the beginning but did the middle and ending

Red dead 2... my horse... Arthur...

some guy from other universe 115935 LOL

you'd be infected in no time.

some guy from other universe 115935 DAAAAMMM you are right it slows down ur aging and makes ur immune system be healthy....when the infection starts.....can i come with you?

I eat shrooms too. But let's not test our luck. Am I right?

@digicraftmon the crystal gem cordyceps fungi is one of the most expensive mushrooms to be sold because its used to produce undetectable ATP boost drugs for the olympics it tastes like shit though but if you do eat it plain or cooked then it should give you a boost in stamina. but yes it is edible.

Technically they are not Zombies they are infected living people changed into monsters.

ergh Zombies are undead. Cordyceps cannot infect those that are dead, so they are technically not zombies .

Andrew Brady Well, it depends on your definition of a zombie; 1: The original, mind controlled, yet alive, voodoo type zombie. 2: One of the two(so far) major modern horror disease type. Also, these cordyceps ones, along with the infected in 28 days later, are not undead but in an altered state of mind of sorts. Even in the Resident Evil franchise the creatures are not properly undead, as something that has died has, or at least should have, no way of mutating. Although I admit that the actual reanimated corpses in the earlier games and RE6 makes no sense, I mean it has me thinking; "Seriously? I thought I was playing Resident Evil, not Dead Space..."

Yeah they aren't Zombies, when people die they don't come back,and the fungus doesn't infect the dead, it's similar to Zombies wherein they eat people and spread the virus (or in this case fungus) they're just a monster that happens to also enjoy eating people like many monsters do.

ergh when did Vsauce made the video?

Simple Times...

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Bruh

Equally accurate and disgusting.

MATTYSLIFE f off

you're welcome Ty!

Ty yessssss

it comes out next year man

I'm saving up for it my new pairs of shoes Ive been saving for can wait

I can't wait for last of us 2!

It was first for ps3 Lol

@@pooyannotash8093 yeah, and I beat it about 3 times to know what to do.

I got the toilet paper bruh

Timothy Macdonald-Morgan Fungus filter feeds, it doesnt need to eat. Its like a plant kind of.

@@razzdarkstar notice how the cordiceps fungus that affects ants makes them root themselves in place. No way a fungus could survive without getting nutrients from the host body (which would deteriorate to death) or the ground.

@@razzdarkstar plants are lower maintenance than humans because they don't move as fast or as much, so i'm guessing they eat Animals/Uninfected Humans for energy.

They do eat animals and people

@@imdumbbut1681 Maybe they eat anything

Thanks buddy!

Watch out guys!!!! We got a real hunk here

Sounds like the division.

Yeh definitely , I can add that to the list :) Thanks Dave!

David Arnold I actually got a head ache from trying to read that 😭 but yes I agree with you

David Arnold I had to read that thrice just to understand it haha, sometimes commas are necessary

Legit the worst grammar

Sal Monella yessssss

*yes*

i'll add it to the list sal! thanks :)

Cinnamon Yates same 👍😉

I know I'm late, but can you teach me that

@@tiagoviana263 Yes

@@kaidensmith2670 Post a tutorial on RU-vid, I'll watch it with my 37 accounts (joking about the numbers, but I would actually watch it)

@@tiagoviana263 ok I'll work on it

I do to 😂

Snavels 🤣

Me looking over at Last of Us 2: *no*

Relative to what?

he said "a handful were immune" meaning not everyone was immune

There are others like Ellie who are totally immune to the infection, though you don't find this out until the very end of the game, and they are very much in the minority. However, there is a potential caviat to this in that Ellie as well as the other cases of supposedly immune individuals still have spores present in their bodies, meaning they could be asymptomatic carriers who can pass the infection on through bodily fluids, as Ellie herself implies when she bites that one asshole whose name I thankfully can't remember.

Jaime Valencia actually her immunity is linked to the fungi growing around her brain mutating and stopping the infection process. It stayed stagnant and never progressed.

Brutalyte616 When Joel told Ellie there were other immune people, he was lying to her because he knew that she would be willing to sacrifice herself to save humanity. That being said, there COULD be other people who are immune, because when people get infected they usually either kill themselves or are killed by others before they would know if they’re going to turn. By the way, my personal theory is that since Ellie’s fungus has mutated to be harmless and that’s what makes her immune to other fungi, all she would have to do to pass on her immunity is infect someone. For example, David (probably the asshole you mentioned) may have been immune after Ellie bit him, or maybe I’m wrong and he would have turned, or maybe neither. Another thing to consider is the spores are in the saliva which is why it’s passed on with a bite. And in the trailer for TLOU2, Ellie and another girl kiss (also known as swapping spit.) Wonder what that means for the health of that girl!

@@daerdevvyl4314 I haven't played the game in a while but I'm pretty confident that at the end in the hospital you can find an artifact that goes into detail about how there's others immune. So technically Joel wasn't lying

Mike Lags oh, nice idea.

I think he covered it in the latest video.

@@Tyw7 His comment is from a year ago

LegoGenius16 really?