He: "The estimate is eighty million."
She: "Ping Null and Void"
Climate crisis solved!!
Wow! That’s about 5% of China. How would the world survive?
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?
they are short about 3.5 billion or so.
Drop in the friggin bucket.
Disease has been put off, not stopped. I don’t doubt that at some point immune systems in Western countries will be so weak that a variant of a dreaded disease will spread. The miracle is that with all of the displaced people in the world, it hasn’t already happened.
Over the years, I’ve read a few books and articles on the 1918 Spanish flu.
Like some other posters said “We’re overdue” and god help us when it happens.
Perhaps I’m wrong - but even in a highly developed country like ours, I have a hard time seeing our public health infrastructure handling it.
Businesses will shut down. Those who do go out will be wearing facemasks (and those might not even help). Public transportation will grind to a halt. Those shopping malls that are even open will be like ghost towns. grocery stores out of food because everyone is dead, too sick or too scared to make deliveries.
(shudder)
Oh no! We’re all gonna die!
Some Freepers may remember retired CDC scientist ‘Mother Abigail’ who posted here until 2012. Her field was influenza, SARs, Marburg, Ebola, all the fun stuff.
I don’t think that she was trying to scare anyone, but it was her opinion that we are due for a near-extinction event, most likely a hybrid flu. 80 million would be a conservative estimate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:motherabigail/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2820204/posts
Well heck since we’re just making up numbers, why go so low. A pandemic could wipe out 2 billion people. Or we might not get a pandemic. So far, the second bet is holding.
And so another billion in funding needs to be given to WHO right away!
These moochers are so transparent.
A good portion of the world is a sh*thole. Western civilization is rapidly importing their sh*t. We very well may become legend.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! .....once again.....
We’ve only got 9.5 years. Who cares.