Current Events > It's kind of creepy going back and reading over stuff about SARS and it's like

(+) Yeah! (+)

"Yeah now we know a coronavirus can cause a deadly epidemic and thankfully this one ended up being not as terrible as it could have potentially been but man who knows about the next potential one"

And here we are.

Also the amount of shit that's out there that things like WHO are continually monitoring because one day it could absolutely just start fucking us is not comforting >_>
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Now we know how the human race ends.

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And the next one might just might not occur until we're old and at risk... Pictures being taken of us helplessly gazing into the empty aisles of ass paper.

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Bio1590 posted...

Also the amount of shit that's out there that things like WHO are continually monitoring because one day it could absolutely just start fucking us is not comforting >_>

Such as? Im super interested in this stuff for some reason

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Its sad that the West didnt learn anything from the SARS outbreak.

Maybe we will next time.

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Read up on TB.

Think corona virus is bad?

TB infects 10 million people a year. Every year.
It kills 1.5 million people.
It is in every country on the planet.

If it is not vaccinated for, it requires a ridiculous treatment regimen to treat.
If that treatment is not followed after it starts, it is not simply matter of restarting it. The virus mutates, and becomes treatment resistant. That then requires aggressive chemotherapy.

At that point, it can STILL mutate again, and become extremely treatment resistant. At which point, the person simply dies.

Best part?
If someone with resistant strain infects someone else, it's the resistant strain.

Last year, nearly 500,000 new cases of resistant TB were found.

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NOM posted...

Such as? Im super interested in this stuff for some reason

This is their priority page

https://www.who.int/activities/prioritizing-diseases-for-research-and-development-in-emergency-contexts
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Its sad that the West didnt learn anything from the SARS outbreak.

Maybe we will next time.

there's always next time! another outbreak, another lesson learned <3

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MT_TRAEH posted...

there's always next time! another outbreak, another lesson learned <3

Assuming there is a next time.

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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Its sad that the West didnt learn anything from the SARS outbreak.

Maybe we will next time.

I mean even if they did it would have required a near-immediate complete lockdown with forcible isolation for anyone that had traveled internationally to even begin to work. This thing's kinda fucked compared to SARS considering it's far more easily transmissable and is transmissable when the person that has it is completely asymptomatic (SARS largely was not and it was obvious when someone had it).

Plus of course it didn't help that this originated in China again.
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