As usual, politics, fear, hatred, bias, and preconceived beliefs reigned supreme. A wild type virus exploded out of the caves of southeast Asia, from bats, possibly through an intermediary species. It then radiated across China, and Italy, with a large outbreak at a meat market in the lead up to Chinese New Years celebration and the largest mass migrations of humans on Earth. A pandemic was born and exploded across the world.
Due to politics and stupidity we chose to ignore it, and the pandemic rages onward stealing health, lives, shortening lifespans, destroying immune systems and lowering IQ. Further, due to the politics we have erased data collection, ramped up blame as if that fixed anything, and ended any efforts at fighting this or any future pandemic.
And so it is that we will see SARS-CoV-2 hybridise with deadlier cousins, or those cousins on their own explode across the world, with much higher lethalities. And HPAI, actually several different HPAI. Plus Chikungunya, Malaria, Denge, West Nile, Measles of all things, mPox, and others.
However, with the American institutions tracking and fighting such things hollowed out, scientists driven to leave the country, and the government actively opposing the most successful vaccine platform technology ever developed, and opposing vaccines in general, the stage is set for global tragedy on an enormous scale. Oh joy.
As usual, politics, fear, hatred, bias, and preconceived beliefs reigned supreme. A wild type virus exploded out of the caves of southeast Asia, from bats, possibly through an intermediary species. It then radiated across China, and Italy, with a large outbreak at a meat market in the lead up to Chinese New Years celebration and the largest mass migrations of humans on Earth. A pandemic was born and exploded across the world.
Due to politics and stupidity we chose to ignore it, and the pandemic rages onward stealing health, lives, shortening lifespans, destroying immune systems and lowering IQ. Further, due to the politics we have erased data collection, ramped up blame as if that fixed anything, and ended any efforts at fighting this or any future pandemic.
And so it is that we will see SARS-CoV-2 hybridise with deadlier cousins, or those cousins on their own explode across the world, with much higher lethalities. And HPAI, actually several different HPAI. Plus Chikungunya, Malaria, Denge, West Nile, Measles of all things, mPox, and others.
However, with the American institutions tracking and fighting such things hollowed out, scientists driven to leave the country, and the government actively opposing the most successful vaccine platform technology ever developed, and opposing vaccines in general, the stage is set for global tragedy on an enormous scale. Oh joy.
The most concise summary of our current conundrums