Pandemic could kill up to 80 million people -- and the world isn't ready, experts say

KCCI ^ | 09/18/2019

[trisham]

I’m concerned about the future. It seems to me that something catastrophic may be in the future.

[grey_whiskers]

I remember her during the H5N1 scare.

[Norski]

Extraordinary site.

And they are out of stock of many of the less-expensive body bags. The Bahamian need must be great.

[morphing libertarian]

a little shake down now and then won’t hurt.

[txrefugee]

AOC says we have only 11 more years before the End of the World, so the pandemic better hurry up.

[hanamizu]

Can you imagine the out cry from the snowflakes...

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Maybe that’s why they are snowflakes. We haven’t suffered catastrophe or the potential of catastrophe in most people’s living memory. My dad graduated from high school in 1932—into the teeth of the Depression. The memory of WWI and Spanish flu were part of his parent’s lives. He got 8 years of Depression and then 4 years of WWII before ‘normal’ times returned—which of course included the threat of nuclear war destroying everything. But these people are nearly all gone now and while some of us oldsters remember their stories, those under 50 have no memories of nationwide, worldwide disaster.

Maybe they’ll cope better than they or we think.

[TMN78247]

TRUE, = The 1918 Spanish Flu took 3 members of our family.

Yours, TMN78247

[Thank You Rush]

Nothing the many Clinton Foundation Initiatives couldn’t take care of. Only one problem - you’d have to get them to let go of some of their millions/billions (?). Their many websites promised to save the world!! I think the only thing their money goes to is to their pockets and to keep the glossy/lofty websites going!!

[mykroar]

Where’s the “oh no” gif?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Over population solved.

[null and void]

Name her, ping her. Who knows? Someday she may return!

[null and void]

I’m at a loss to see how keeping sick people away from children costs children’s lives. Are you perhaps engaging in an attempt at liberal logic?

[DownInFlames]

Out of 7 billion? Peanuts.

[BusterDog]

Bound to happen eventually. When it does, no one will be talking about progressive issues anymore. Suddenly everyone will have traditional, conservative values.

[Pelham]

I think I first ran across her on a thread devoted to tracking the flu. Probably swine or avian flu, those are the ones that will be the most deadly. You got the idea from her posting that she wasn’t just a casual observer.

At some point she went on to discuss Ebola. IIRC she told us that the reservoir animal was going to be fruit bats well before that fact hit the news. I’m pretty sure that she also mentioned the particular cave that the CDC had been focusing on. Convinced me that she was the real deal.

[BusterDog]

“Africa isn’t the only stew pot of nasty communicable diseases....”

Memphis is pretty bad, too.

[redgolum]

I remember those threads.
There were other CDC and related researchers during a Marburg outbreak that did not behave, and a rather nasty flu outbreak.

With Just in Time inventories, the West can barely handle seasonal storms, let alone a multi month disruptive event.

[Grampa Dave]

Please add me to your morbid morbidity list, if I can use this meme.

[Grampa Dave]

"How could you possibly prepare for the death of 80 million people?"

Our blue cities/counties/states would ignore that reality while banning paper straws and advertising that they are still sanctuary sites.

[RandallFlagg]

“Randall Flagg, pick up the white courtesy phone.....”

Wut?