He: "The estimate is eighty million."
She: "Ping Null and Void"
Posted on 09/18/2019 1:05:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Between 2011 and 2018, WHO tracked 1,483 epidemics worldwide, including Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the report said.
These epidemics and pandemics devastated many of their host countries -- the West Africa Ebola outbreak resulted in a loss of $53 billion in economic and social cost. These huge economic costs translate to severe real-life consequences -- lost jobs, forced displacement, inaccessible healthcare, and greater mortality.
While disease, epidemics, and pandemics have always existed, greater population density and the ability to travel anywhere in the world within 36 hours means disease can spread rapidly through a country and then go worldwide
Poorer countries, especially those without basic primary health care or health infrastructure, are hit the hardest by disease outbreaks. In these places, the problem is often compounded by armed conflict or a deep distrust in health services, as seen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been ravaged by an Ebola outbreak for more than a year. Community mistrust has led to violent, sometimes fatal attacks on heath care workers.
Scientific and technological advancements have helped fight these diseases -- but the WHO report warns they can also provide the laboratory environments for new disease-causing microorganisms to be created, increasing the risk of a future global pandemic.
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Climate crisis solved!!
Wow! That’s about 5% of China. How would the world survive?
Not sure what they mean when they say the world is not ready. If anything, it’s overdue.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
The obvious solution is clearly to make more prosperous countries shoulder their "fair share," by impeding access to basic primary health care or health infrastructure, and introducing armed conflict and a deep distrust in health services.
What difference does it make? The wold will end in just under 12 years anyway.
I like their optimism!
A pandemic could kill over 7 billion people.
Jeez. Letting hordes of Third World two legged rats run all over the place into any country they feel like couldn’t have anything to do with it, right? Nah!
How could you possibly prepare for the death of 80 million people?
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Agreed.
Africa isn’t the only stew pot of nasty communicable diseases....India and other 3rd world countries have their fair share and with their citizens all trying to get to the US and other western countries it won’t be long before the west is infected.
Africa isn’t the only stew pot of nasty communicable diseases....India and other 3rd world countries have their fair share and with their citizens all trying to get to the US and other western countries it won’t be long before the west is infected.
I don’t think any disease could e that thorough, but am not a doctor and also don’t play one on TV.
they are short about 3.5 billion or so.
Drop in the friggin bucket.
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