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To: discostu

“There won’t be a new outbreak,....”

So, you think that you can wave your magic wand and halt the natural processes of genetic mutation which produced the pla which made the previous deadly pneumonic plagues possible.

“this is pure fear mongering at it’s most offensive and disgusting.”

What’s “disgusting” is the monumental and deliberate ignorance that disregards the obvious dangers of a potential pandemic that tends to recur with each deadly mutation of the pathogen.


56 posted on 10/15/2015 10:41:01 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Diseases tend to mutate towards LESS lethal not more. They need to host to survive, killing the host is an evolutionary negative.

The only monumental and deliberate ignorance here is people thinking Black Plague is going to come roaring back. It won’t. It was a minor disease that thrived on Europe’s terrible sanitary conditions and man’s complete lack of understanding of viruses and treatment. In the modern world with modern medicine and sanitation it’s a very difficult disease to get and a very easy disease to treat.


58 posted on 10/16/2015 7:58:24 AM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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