The world is on the edge of even greater pandemic damage
Posted by InvestigatorSoft5764@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 68 comments
Posted by InvestigatorSoft5764@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 68 comments
trickortreat89@reddit
Statistically it is really bound to happen as well. And when looking at the timeline for the last many pandemics it is very clear that they happen more and more often. Last time was 2019 with Covid now, and we’re approaching 2030. Statistically it would be unlikely that we can last without a new pandemic before 2030…
It’s scary that we don’t prepare for this inevitable outcome, but it’s the same with almost all our other biggest crisis with pollution, climate changes and biodiversity loss. We’re really not doing what it takes to bring our own civilization towards a safer future.
I guess it’s time for me to seek buying a house or some land far away from people if some airborne disease will become deadly and become our next pandemic! And also store some food, a lot of food, and water.
Bored_Acolyte_44@reddit
Covid is already airborne and deadly and everyone is acting like it doesn't exist.
breinbanaan@reddit
Bro i have lung covid, I'm 31 and my body feels like it aged 30 fucking years
Apprehensive_Bake_78@reddit
Long covid is terrible and I'm sure there are people are you dismissing it. I'm sorry breinbanaan! I hope things improve for you a great deal.
breinbanaan@reddit
I appreciate it. Not everybody understands it indeed
Kazuma_Megu@reddit
I had covid 4 times and I literally feel like my memory and cognitive functions are noticeably diminished. Plus I swear I'm sleepy all the freakin' time with maybe a couple hours of normal alertness and energy per day.
IGnuGnat@reddit
https://old.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/comments/1ibjtw6/covid_himcas_normal_food_can_poison_us/
Bored_Acolyte_44@reddit
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/even-fully-recovered-survivors-mild-covid-can-lose-iq-points-study-suggests
You're not alone. The collective brain drain on the species is noticable.
vinegar@reddit
I thought there was a thing called lung covid that I hadn’t heard about
Admirable_Advice8831@reddit
They prolly meant 'long covid' as I'm pretty sure covid always affect the lung since it's a respiratory disease
vinegar@reddit
Yes that’s clearly what happened
IGnuGnat@reddit
I'm honestly not worried about dying from Covid. It'll be the worst two weeks of my life and then all my problems will be solved.
I'm terrified of LIVING with it. There's worse things than dying, honestly
https://old.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/comments/1ibjtw6/covid_himcas_normal_food_can_poison_us/
BitchfulThinking@reddit
But fortunately masks still exist 😄
They're also useful for all the wildfire smoke, pollution, and other nasties we'll all be inhaling forever.
old-legs-623@reddit
There's also these https://www.nasa.gov/stem-content/joint-polar-satellite-system-stem-activity-make-a-corsi-rosenthal-filter/
KlausVonLechland@reddit
Huh, I was looking for something like that for my hobby room.
Iamlabaguette@reddit
Its wreaking havocs on our brains
chrismetalrock@reddit
My brain fog says huh
mrsduckie@reddit
my brain fog says wuh?
GanSaves@reddit
My brain frog says “ribbit”.
shatteredoctopus@reddit
My fog brain slays sjnikml,e3.
AutumntimeFall@reddit
And immune system, leaving us even more prone to future pandemics.
filmguy36@reddit
Remember the orange pedo had Covid, as much as the WH likes to deny it. We all saw the video of him looking like shit when they rushed him to the hospital.
He is the king of brain fog
breaducate@reddit
Continuous human sacrifice at the altar of normalcy.
IGnuGnat@reddit
solar and wind generators, a well, some electric bikes, and an automated aquaponics greenhouse
No_Computer_3432@reddit
newbie here, any recommendations for beginner spices of this topic? want a better understanding of the fundamentals.
HappyCamperDancer@reddit
I enjoyed reading "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" Book by David Quammen.
It was written in 2010-2011, or around then and he absolutely predicted the Covid SARS 2 pandemic. He also discussed what our vulnerabilities are and why.
Excellent book to introduce you to the science of pandemics.
No_Computer_3432@reddit
thank you!
HappyCamperDancer@reddit
David Quammen is not a scientist himself, but he is a good science writer and does a good job of "translating" what other scientists tell him, then turning that into a readable book that is easy for lay people to understand.
Radioactdave@reddit
We're NOT ... oh, wait, we are. Where'd all that time go?
AggravatingCricket61@reddit
You will have visitors...
homurtu@reddit
By then, visitors will have larger concerns than visiting.
Someones_Dream_Guy@reddit
YAY.
clookie1232@reddit
Is it possible that this was on purpose? I mean, they don’t really care about us and they have access to the best healthcare money can buy. How best to solve shit, in their eyes, but to kill everyone. Guess it doesn’t help the replacement rate tho. But it seems the US gutting all health orgs and USAID is really contributing to these outbreaks
Cultural-Answer-321@reddit
It was done on purpose.
clookie1232@reddit
That sucks
ToiIetGhost@reddit
The scariest part is that COVID was 6 years ago
ask_me_about_my_band@reddit
When if happens (not if) there will be no shutdowns because governments will not want to deal with crybabies who tend to be violent so the spread will be significant.
The best we can hope for is that there is a quick vaccine and that all of those nut bags who turn to ivermectin instead of getting vaccinated will reap their reward of their own callus stupidity.
With those folks gone by submitting to 'god's will' rather than protecting themselves, the world may end up being a bit more peaceful.
imaginaryraven@reddit
What’s heartbreaking is that it affects their children. The kids can’t help if their parents are ignorant. They’re being exposed to these diseases and have no say in the matter.
rightintheear@reddit
I just skimmed some of the research about how many children experienced a caregiver death from covid 19. In 2021 it was already estimated 140k american children had suffered this. I see a brazilian study from 2025 that 1.5 million brazilian children suffered it.
I'm sure there's some overlap with maga but it seems to disproportianally affect the working class, in the US children of minorities. Essential workers die. Conservative boomers don't have minor children.
StarStruck3@reddit
They called us "essential", what they really meant was "expendable". It'll be the same in the next pandemic.
Jeveran@reddit
If the next thing to come along affects a lot of people, and has a mortality rate like the Andes strain of Hantavirus or the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, then there will be shutdowns; not because they're mandated by the government, but because too many people will be dead, or too sick for government agencies, or commercial entities to function.
AutumntimeFall@reddit
Yep, hanta or ebola are society destroying.
gigi-kent@reddit
Ebola is too deadly to spread significantly.
amanda2399923@reddit
all it takes is say one or two World Cup games to spread
uski@reddit
It could mutate to become less deadly, it's a very possible outcome. Every mutation, every infection gives it the opportunity to try that out ...
PM_Me_LIFESTORYS_pLs@reddit
Bioengineering is incredibly easy right now. With 10 grand and a few weeks anyone of us could use a cracked local LLM AI and make an incredibly lethal virus. We are not ready for it to happen, but IT WILL HAPPEN!
The_Real_UBDK_666@reddit
Dont viruses thrive because they have an abundance of hosts? I mean I know there are other factors obviously but the fact there's billions of people on this rock is enough to know a pandemic is in the future. Nobody will do anything to stop the spread. Just like everyone will keep paying up the ass for gas and food. Everyone of us is the problem and we are all lazy and stupid. Just look at the state of the world. Everyone's just driving around, eating and shitting, being useless bitching online about how this world's falling apart. Thats all we do. So honestly who really cares. Were doomed unless every single one of us decided to make some major changes for the better of all. Once everyone starts starving to death there will absolutely be a pandemic. Enjoy your poptarts and kool-aid while its still available.
Interesting_Fly_1569@reddit
Literally if 5% of the 30% of people who didn’t vote voted ….but ppl can’t even be bothered to vote once every four years. And I’m not saying it fixes everything but it’s a pretty low bar.
The_Real_UBDK_666@reddit
People cant even put their phones down while they drive with their kids in the car. Most people dont even think about other people at all unless they personally need something. The amount of society that lives in a box only thinking about themselves is mind blowing. Mother fuckers dont even have conversations anymore because we live behind screens and think its reality. There won't ever be a positive change because the majority of people dont even know how to function without technology telling them what to do. We formulate every opinion we have based on shit we see online and wouldnt be bother by going and seeing things first hand. Not only that we will fight tooth and nail to be right about these opinions and it literally has zero credibility. I hate society. I remember playing outside, riding bikes or skating. Building forts in the woods. Talking shit to eachothers faces. Shit was alright for a brief mo ent I think. Now it just makes my head hurt watching things "function". I just hope everyone is aware that no matter how your farts dont stink in your mind, they do and youre absolutely apart of the problem. If people could take a moment to formulate a thought on their own I think the world would be a different place. Im just rambling. I honestly dont care what happens to humanity. I just hope whatever it is it opens people's eyes before the end. Bunch of self righteous, egotistical, know it alls.like hey dumb shit if youre so smart why the fuck are you on the same sinking ship as the rest of us? Durp.
PM_Me_LIFESTORYS_pLs@reddit
You’re right to be cynical and furious. We all should be. But please please please remember just how adaptable us humans really are. We are able to be molded from normal ethical people to literal Nazi murderers all based on our environment around us. The same is happening now. Make the environment that will help us the most. Be the change you want to see, even if it’s just on a small scale. We have the capacity for amazing things. Use it!
Nail_Gyal_3@reddit
The the show ‘The Strain’
Hurlyburly766@reddit
During Covid we collectively decided that economics supersede all natural laws. We took all of the collected knowledge of how life on earth works and we shrugged and said “it can’t be helped, the economic system doesn’t have an off switch.” So we’re wedded to made-up systems and have to deny the existence of physical reality. I think that cognitive dissonance has done a number on all of us.
PM_Me_LIFESTORYS_pLs@reddit
Poetry
petersimmons22@reddit
The fact that Covid is such a (relatively) low lethality illness means we learned the wrong lessons. Enough people were able to not change behavior and be ok so they learned that during pandemics the shutdowns were overkill. What they should have learned was that they got lucky to not get seriously ill. Unfortunately, those people will be the loudest and least cooperative when a more deadly virus spreads. We’re screwed.
OneTripleZero@reddit
Wholeheartedly agree. The worst part about covid is that it wasn't deadly enough and the wrong people took the wrong lessons from it. If we have another outbreak of something worse before those lessons are forgotten, the outcomes are going to be needlessly catastrophic.
Jeffde@reddit
Nah I mean, with a “real” outbreak, they’ll just die. It will fuck over the medical system for the rest of us again, though.
WileyCoyote7@reddit
We are the pandemic. 8.2 billion and growing. 8.2 billion that mostly exist solely because we found a way to borrow from our future. At the expense of our future. The rest of the life on this planet didn’t even know their names were put on the loan documents.
Tough-Elk@reddit
And just in time …. The U.S. completed its official withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), eliminating funding for global health initiatives, pandemic preparedness, and disease eradication.
greggerypeccary@reddit
Maybe stop creating new viruses?
AutumntimeFall@reddit
Neither ebola or hanta Andes strain are new.
greggerypeccary@reddit
Should have been more clear, stop manipulating existing viruses to make them more dangerous for “research”
AutumntimeFall@reddit
Nope, that's not what's happening here at all. You do realize this is literally evolution right? Viruses are constantly mutating.
WinstonChurchill74@reddit
Viruses don’t need to be new
Doctalivingston@reddit
Nature called it said "🖕👹👹👹🖕"
Konradleijon@reddit
Of course
Huge-Charge3758@reddit
No shit just let it do it's thing
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