Post Reply - A new pandemic

   DJ, How far away are we from a "real pandemic disease X"? A disease to wich humans have no/hardly any immunity and a "killing potential" that will overstretch healthcare capacity by far...
My "estimate" -with a background of worsening climate conditions, increase of wars (so more refugees, soldiers-concentrated/exhausted) and a total lack of testing while many diseasees are spreading in tens-of-billions most non-human hosts is "Disease X" could be around the corner...might be spreading already...but we do not seem to care...

Like with climate collapse one can go for lots of "models"...Science in general-in need of funding-may be "over optimistic". Alarmists in general is not getting a lot of finance...

https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/05/arctic-sea-ice-may-2025.html or https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/05/arctic-sea-ice-may-2025.html ;
Arctic sea ice is under threat as numerous conditions are becoming increasingly dire, as discussed in earlier posts such as this one. For some of these conditions, updates are added below, i.e. carbon dioxide concentrations, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and Arctic sea ice volume. 
Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide concentrations at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, have been above 430 ppm for six days in a row recently, as illustrated by the image below. The 431.13 ppm reading on April 27, 2025, is the highest daily average on record. One has to go back millions of years in time to find carbon dioxide concentrations this high. 

DJ, We are doing ALL WE CAN to get a "real pandemic" going...De-fund science is a western reaction on pandemics, climate collapse...(not only in the US...lots of other western countries go that way...). 

Looking at the recent past -everything went well- so "what can happen" is a wrong way of thinking ! The last 2000 years the "normal" was an Earth with less then 1 billion people-average age/life expectency under 40...We are now living in an extreme abnormal time-with over 8,2 billion people-life expectency in many places over 80...

Global travel still is high-not only by humans...birds do not need planes to fly...also products crossing large stretches may spread disease...but we do not want to know it...

I do hope "Disease X" will NEVER show up ! And we may be lucky...