I wonder if they'll manage to turn this one into a pandemic? They seem pretty good at it.
I wonder if they'll manage to turn this one into a pandemic? They seem pretty good at it.
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For a host of reasons, including population density, uneven development with extensive rural regions, and its importance as a central trading/manufacturing hub allowing for viruses that pop up to be more easily transmissible domestically and internationally. Tons of these viruses pop up every year and transfer to humans, we just rarely hear about any since they're largely isolated incidents in parts of the world that aren't as connected so domestic and especially international transmission is extremely rare.
disturbing amount of racism in this thread already
All the socialists are drooling at all the welfare they can beg from the government if this catches on again.
It's because China is a vast and diverse area that ranges from almost pre-industrial levels of agriculture and poverty to cities that rival the most modernised on Earth. Rapid development and a dense population means they're experiencing the challenges that faced places like Europe over centuries in a matter of decades.
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Swine 'flu was traced back to Mexico.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Seeing as it holds 20% of the world population, yes. and the bird flu only killed 455 people, hardly the big scary pandemic you think it was[it was an epidemic at best]
Did we also forget that Countries like the US and UK had way more infections than even China? Pandemics have always been a treat, but most countries did have serious plans to deal with them.
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These pop up fairly frequently, actually, just usually in more isolated areas where the risk of transmission outside of whatever locality it appears in is minimal.
China is unique in that it's densely populated (though not too unique, other countries have similarly dense populations even at smaller scales, then you have India etc.) but also because it's a central trading/manufacturing hub for the world, so if anything starts infecting people in that central supply chain the risk of the infection going global is extremely high.
The bigger issue with this is if it's transmissible, and if it's not easily transmissible we likely won't see a repeat. Thankfully this seems like the latter.
But aside from that we're still back at, "Scientists and medical professionals etc. have been warning countries for decades that these pandemics would be coming yet nobody could be bothered to pay them much mind because prepping for a pandemic is expensive and doesn't yield 'results' until an actual pandemic happens, meaning there's often intense political and economic pressure not to spend big on this kind of preparation."
Like, remember when there was a pandemic response team created in 2015 specifically to prepare for this kind of eventuality, and then the formal team got disbanded with some members being fired and others being folded into other roles that weren't focused on, but did include, pandemic response in 2018? Because that happened, and while that team being in-place wouldn't have prevented the pandemic or been a silver bullet for the US to get through it just fine, it shows how much of a role politics does play in our ability to actually respond to pandemics.
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Are we still believing the CCP is totes being 100% honest, for realz, and not releasing bullshit data?
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...-in-China.aspx
Because it's been pretty clear for a long time that while some of their draconian crackdowns have been effective, the numbers they release publicly are not remotely true.
Meaning the remaining 80% of the worlds population seems to have a fairly alright time not creating these diseases.
And we can do little but count ourselves mighty lucky on that front. It’s not like China did anything to make the virus happen to be “less lethal” or “less transmissible” beyond giving it an initial place to fester. They certainly didn’t contain it within China, nor did they contain COVID.and the bird flu only killed 455 people, hardly the big scary pandemic you think it was[it was an epidemic at best]
But third times the charm, right?
…which still doesn’t change the fact that the disease originated there, with COVID having thought to originate in the utterly unnecessary wet markets; same with SARS.Did we also forget that Countries like the US and UK had way more infections than even China?
And seeing as China wasn’t exactly forthcoming with information until it was far too late and has a long history of cooking the books for things as petty as fishing quotas, I’d say their statistics on the matter are suspect at best.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
I wonder why every rare virus starts from china