Even with the plague, there would have to be a number of US nuclear subs out there. They would have been ordered to remain at sea when it broke out. Even if some of them made port before or after the plague got back and those subs were sickened, surely at least a few of them would have been far enough away from land for long enough to not have been infected, and unlike the Nathan James, they would have been in touch with command until there was nobody left.
shareYeah I find this a bit odd.
shareMy theory. There probably are subs and such out there. We've been introduced to two other ships after all. However, the James was in a unique position to have been ordered to avoid communications early in its mission to find a cure. The crew did not know right away that their families were dying or the virus was as massive an epidemic as it was. Once they found out, they realized they were the only hope for a cure; so there's no way they would abandon their mission. In contrast, other crews probably heard of the virus spreading almost in realtime. With no hope of a cure (from their perspective) many abandoned their posts to try and help at home, with their families.
shareNot just subs. Aircraft carriers can be out there for 6 months, and their support ships with them. Even if the disease was airborne, it's not gonna travel 4000 miles out into the middle of the Pacific.
And what about the people in the Antarctic? No pathogen can live in that cold. in Alaska, there's a US Military base at Fort Wainwright. Thule, Greenland also isn't known for its sunny climes.
Enjoyable show, but really stretches the boundaries of believability.
..Joe