How We'd Really Deal With the Pandemic in 'The Last Ship'

A United States Navy Destroyer is sent to the Arctic and ordered to radio silence for four months. During that time, a mysterious virus - 100 percent fatal and 100 percent contagious - spreads from isolated pockets in Africa and Asia into a pandemic. When radio silence ends and the captain and his 217 crew finally learn what's going on, 80 percent of the human population is either dead or dying, and all government control has collapsed. Unrealistic? Perhaps. But this is the setting of the