'Next Pandemic Could Be More Lethal Than Covid'

[Rockers rule]

Told yer graphs wouldn't be long in coming 

[Chekhov]

Just now, Rockers rule said:

Told yer graphs wouldn't be long in coming 

Nothing wrong with graphs, I've always like them.

But, as I've said elsewhere, it doesn't really matter what anyone puts on here, because it is not about the science or the data and never really has been. It's about people's attitude to living life on the one hand, and death on the other.

[Rockers rule]

1 hour ago, Chekhov said:

Nothing wrong with graphs, I've always like them.

But, as I've said elsewhere, it doesn't really matter what anyone puts on here, because it is not about the science or the data and never really has been. It's about people's attitude to living life on the one hand, and death on the other.

"It's about people's attitude to living life on the one hand, and death on the other" ✔️

 

& just how long a topic can go, before it disintegrates into name calling 🧐 🙃.

[Delbow]

6 hours ago, West 77 said:

It was over hundred years since the last major pandemic happened meaning the likelihood is none of us will be around when the next one strikes.

Novel coronaviruses are jumping the species barrier roughly every 8 years so o wouldn't be so sanguine. Previous coronaviruses, e.g. MERS, had a much higher mortality rate than SARS-COV 2 but were less contagious. If we get one as transmissible as this one but more lethal, we're £&#@ed. 

 

Best way of stopping that seems to be reducing human/animal contact, i.e. stop transporting and eating animals.

[Rockers rule]

And here we go 

 

The Worlds not £&#@ed! vaccines, mask wearing and lockdown's have all been a big hoax.

 All we had to do was - remove meat from the food chain.

 

Nut's it is then 🤣

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dromedary]

1 hour ago, Delbow said:

Best way of stopping that seems to be reducing human/animal contact, i.e. stop transporting and eating animals.

That's not the problem though although it would suit Greta and many other anti meat eaters if it was the case. The main problem is not animal consumption but how it is physically handled. In the countries where most of these viruses spring from the population is very poor and so is their education so they eat what they can to survive. The animal husbandry, conditions and hygiene is lacking and almost non existent, and close contact of humans to animals happens a lot more frequently now.  That is how the viruses cross over to infect humans.

[Carbuncle]

2 minutes ago, Dromedary said:

That's not the problem though although it would suit Greta and many other anti meat eaters if it was the case. The main problem is not animal consumption but how it is physically handled. In the countries where most of these viruses spring from the population is very poor and so is their education so they eat what they can to survive. The animal husbandry, conditions and hygiene is lacking and almost non existent, and close contact of humans to animals happens a lot more frequently now.  That is how the viruses cross over to infect humans.

Bats are the main source of coronaviruses. They live in caves. Every night they fly out of their caves and deposit their guano while in flight. The guano which goes everywhere contains viable coronavirus. Lots of opportunity for coronaviruses to jump species barriers.

[Longcol]

7 hours ago, Chekhov said:

It has little to do with that, and far  far more to do with the fact people just accepted death (and got on with their lives) back then.

 

Flu vaccines hadn't been developed - and I suppose world war one had nothing to do with it?

[actionman]

What a  headline crock of ****e .

Scaremongering again.

The Death rate of fit healthy people is almost non existant.

 

[Thirsty Relic]

"Could be"

 

Science Fiction to scare people...............  oh yes, the governemt are right to do .....x  .. y  .. z    -   anything they say....  they are always right...... !!!!