Voor de klagers die denken dat de sickness er nog maar net is deze interresante lijst met antwoorden die zouden kunnen gelden betreffende de ziekte.
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1. Why the Hostiles are so paranoid, secretive, ruthless, and mistrustful of outsiders - why they do things like lock people in cages and test their blood. The Hostiles don't know who might be infected, especially since (according to Dogen) the sickness takes a while to run its full course. The person who's begging for his life might attack you as soon as you lower your weapon. It's better from their POV to treat everyone as infected until proven otherwise.
2. Why the Hostiles only want "good" people in their community. It seems that the sickness is more of a psychic or magical condition than a purely medical one. Perhaps being a "good" person - whatever that means to the Hostiles - provides immunity to the sickness, so those people can be trusted as members of the community. In fact, "good" may not have any moral implications at all to the Hostiles; it may just mean "immune to the sickness."
3. What happened to Rousseau's team. They were infected by the monster after being lured under the Temple. Thanks to Jin, Rousseau was spared. She eventually realized her team had become pod people and took decisive action to deal with the situation.
4. Why Widmore wanted Rousseau "exterminated." If Widmore knew that the French team had contracted the sickness, he may have assumed the same thing had happened to Rousseau. He sent Ben to kill her before she could spread the infection or cause some other trouble for the Hostiles.
5. Why there were quarantine signs on the hatches and why the crews were taking a vaccine. It didn't appear that DHARMA had any fear of the sickness in the 1970's, but they seem to have become aware of it at some later point. Hence the "quarantine" signs on the hatches and the vaccine taken by the crew in the Swan. Even if they didn't really understand the sickness, DHARMA may have worked out a way to protect against it - just as they managed to devise a defense against the monster without really understanding it. We could speculate on another possibility, though: perhaps the vaccine was only included in supply drops after the Purge. Many people have theorized that Eloise took over the supply drops, and she might well have understood the sickness and included an effective vaccine against it.
6. Why DHARMA had to be purged. The sickness provides another possible reason for the "extermination" of DHARMA: the Hostiles feared DHARMA had become infected and would spread the sickness off the island, so the members of DHARMA all had to die.
7. Why Claire was chilling in the cabin. Dogen outright said Claire was among the infected, but we don't know whether to trust him. However, his description of the sickness matches what we saw of Claire's behavior pretty well: she no longer cared about her child and was sitting in the cabin smirking at poor bamboozled Locke. We could speculate that Christian was the monster and he dragged Claire off to be infected - whatever that actually entails.
8. Why Widmore wanted everyone on the island dead. I've stated several times that I didn't believe Ben when he said Widmore planned to have everyone on the island killed, because there didn't seem to be a convincing motive for Widmore to order something like that. I'm still not sure, but this revelation about the sickness finally provides a possible motive: Widmore may have feared everyone on the island was possibly infected, and didn't plan on taking any chances. It's also possible his men only had orders to kill the non-Hostiles - i.e., the 815 survivors - because Widmore knew they were the only ones really vulnerable to the sickness.