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.
(Excerpt) Read more at kcci.com ...
Dunno how one can prepare for a piece of sh*t like an Ebola pandemic, but maybe start by BLOAT, for gun owners and enthusiasts.
Wreak
And Africa just finds ways to kill you.
Let Africa Sink
http://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/
Africa has airports. Jets will be a disease vector that rivals the mosquito.
‘Spanish flu’
If I remember correctly, this is the same as the Swine Flu of the 1970s which was gonna kill us ALL!. I believe ONE MAN did come down with the Swine Flu back then, and every reporter beat a trail to his door for an interview. More people died, standing in line for the shot, from old age than the flu.
Ever hear about the Georgia Guidestones, and the inscriptions thereon?
I still think it was Ted Turner.
American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Tons of reporting on Trump’s Sharpie use, but very little reporting from our Leftist Media on the scale of destruction in the Bahamas.
The world is very overpopulated. Nature has ways of dealing with that problem.
Just wait about 30-50 years or so when most bacteria is resistant to our antibiotics.
There was a recent article here about the TSA having open positions for Ebola screeners.
Found it.
Preparations Quietly Made to Screen for Ebola at US Airports (8-19-19)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3776326/posts
The US only has 9 beds for diseases such as Ebola.
Thing is, despite the false alarms, influenza can kill, and if a strain hits that most don’t have some immunity against, the death toll can get big very quickly. The YouTube I referred to earlier offers one explanation why the flue of 1918 was so deadly and why it seem to overly affect people in their 20s and 30s.
I know that some diseases that are now ‘contained’ still are difficult to treat—smallpox being a glaring example. Anyway, if you haven’t seen it before check out:
Ebola is scary but it isn’t nearly as easy to pass along as influenza. I wouldn’t want to be the Ebola screener all the same...
“and the world isn’t ready”
It’s ready if after the pandemic at least one fertile male and female remain — hopefully neither being gay.
It's known as the economics of scale...
So it the current theory that Civet cats are the Ebola reservoir rather than fruit bats?
OMG
The coffee!
exactly what I was thinking...
I have been offline for the last couple of days with family issues,
so this posting and comments got by me.
Check out the OP and posted comments for information and individual thoughts.
This article is not about "chicken little and the sky is falling"
but rather about awareness of possibility, and reality of health services being overwhelmed.
Hat Tip to TSR, Ben Lurkin, and Nullie !
Much appreciated !
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