Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
wasoxygen · 1475 days ago · link · · parent · post: A bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six month period starting no later than Dec 31, 2020.
I don't know who's right, but many people argue that the cure is worse than the disease. If we had a response like 2020, every year, it wouldn't be Dark Ages right away but it would be bleak. If we only had the novel virus and let it run wild, it would cause a slight (and very tragic) bump in the baseline mortality rate. Influenza and pneumonia could be ten times deadlier, and they would still be less deadly than heart disease and cancer are individually.events that cause disruption like this pandemic
if we had a shock like the pandemic on an annual basis