yap session abt the cordyceps fungus 😛

Pre-note: I am disgustedly interested in this, I could yap abt this for days, but please be aware that I am (obviously) not a scientist. Take what I say in this with a grain of salt and don't take anything I say as 100% fact. Every part of this is my own words, but I have done research using sites like Britannica. Uh yeah I hope this is interesting to read.

If there were to be a zombie apocalypse caused by the cordyceps fungus, it actually would be quite different from the last of us. The cordyceps fungus can only survive for so long. It grows on forest floors and infects ants whenever an ant comes into contact with it or if the ant is just in the fungus’s vicinity. The fungus goes through a cycle where it finds a host, an ant, and slowly starts to push itself out of the ant's body. The ant will die, but the fungus will keep its body moving. The fungus will go to the highest place it can go, at the top of a tree lets say, and it will release spores into the air for further infection of other ants and similar insects. The chance for the cordyceps fungus to survive in humans is very small, but not impossible. The conditions on earth would have to be extremely specific for the fungus to be able to infect humans, and even then, the cycle of the fungus wouldn’t go on forever, but there would be mass amounts of infections due to the spores, which would lead to a major wipeout of the human population.

Unlike The Last of Us, I feel that the clickers we would have would not be as violent. Although, adding onto this and the previous sentence, there could be a chance that maybe the fungus could (un-naturally) evolve. We still have many powerplants on earth, so if the fungus were to come into contact with the radiation, the fungus could evolve quite quickly. There’s no way to say how it would evolve due to the unpredictable nature of radiation though.