an epidemic is not a pandemic. if you're going to quote my post, at least get it basically right.
ebola is nowhere near as transmissible as coronavirus, nor were SARS/MERS. it wouldn't have been a 'world-altering' bullet because its contagiousness is far easier to isolate and control, especially in western countries with proper health systems. ebola was localised to a very specific region whose disease prevention was nil, modern healthcare minimal, and whose burial practices involved close proximity and touching the dead. that would not pertain in the rest of the world.
but yes, let's stick with ebola for a minute, a zoonotic illness that was transferred to the human population by the eating of wild bushmeat. i'd love to hear your suggestions as to how we stop human beings globally, particularly people in the global south or economically deprived places, from eating available protein. ebola had nothing to do with factory farming, nothing to do with your 'over-consumption of protein' and our dietary habits, nothing to do with chinese medicine or 'unnecessary' farming/harvesting of animal products, etc. it was a person eating locally sourced, available protein. how are you going to prevent that, exactly, dingus? a global ban on foraging? build a wall and get the africans to pay for it?
like i said, zoonotic diseases are a fact of life. we can mitigate against their spread by re-thinking global supply chains, quarantine measures, etc. but we cannot eradicate them. it's pie-in-the-sky hysterical foolishness from the 'lentils and pulses' crowd living in upper-middle class enclaves smelling of patchouli oil.
Last edited by uziq (2020-03-08 07:25:00)
