Ok. I knew that this show is ridiculous but they had brought it to the whole new level with this outrageously unscientific "BURN! BODIES! FOR FUEL!" thing. I had nearly fallen of the chair when the dramatic reveal with madam new Big Baddy switching on the light happened. I swear it would be less odd if everyone on the show had decided out of the blue to put on clown noses and squeeze them with wonk-wonk noises. 2/3s of human bodies consists of water! We are no good, very bad, god damn awful source of fuel! You would do better by fishing logs out of the river... What can be done is when bodies are cremated (the process that requires a column of flames produced by, you know, actual fuel: natural gas, oils, propane, etc...) the heat that is generated by said fuel to destroy the bodies could be channeled to some secondary task, instead of it just going out the chimney. So while helping already sick to pass along under disguise of treating them might be eeeeeevel, to burn highly contagious bodies is a public service, and to use heat generated by the crematoriums in times when coming by fuel sources should be increasingly hard is simply smart and frugal.
Oh, and by the way if the the objective is to allow everybody except for intellectual elite to die, it makes no sense to gather already sick in one place and then waste valuable fuel on burning all the bodies. There is no cure! 99,9% of infected are going to die no matter where they are, and than actually help along the "clean slate" objective by remaining a nice contagions corpse spread out throw the country. If anything the utopian government should be sneaking dead bodies into yet uninfected territories and catapulting corpses in to rebels camps.
But that of course is the universe where humans burn like gasoline, so... logic-shmogic...
Why am I torturing myself?
