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| Topic - pandemic strategies (or lack of it !) Posted: 23 Aug 2024 at 12:26am By Dutch Josh 2 |
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DJ, Since we are NOT stopping any disease we soon will end up in a multi-disease pandemic...
"Saving the economy" destroyed that economy...with that also public healthcare... Both pandemics and climate collapse may result in a crisis we did not see in centuries... Government have to fall back to "war plan" strategies. One main goal will be control of the news... However you can not hide reality for ever...So what could become a working strategy ? -Better vaccines may be on their way...but for the short term only limited... -Masks/eye protection DOES WORK ! Ventilation lowers viral loads...Easy, cheap, fast...some countries may still go for Non Pharma Interventions...For most western countries you would need a major PR campain to "sell" that idea and vaccines... Lots of people may see disease and deaths around them-may be very happy to see ways to protect themselves... However the above may be a bit optimistic; still a government and basic economy ongoing... A worse scenario would see economic collapse...A government only in power in limited positions-going for "stratigic goods" like water supply, electricity, getting at least some food delivery going and limiting social collapse... Even worse would be major climate disasters destroying infra structure to undo even those basics...So NO power, NO water, NO food...just chaos... The scale of chaos could be "very widespread" with countries doing only somewhat better unable to provide much help... -------- Such disaster scenarios may look similar to post-nuclear war scenarios...DJ-"Islands of safety"-in part for a government elite but also as basis for recovery... The Spanish Flu may have killed 2 to 5% of the population between 1917 and 1923. Some estimates put India H1N1-"Spanish" flu deaths at 20 million... The Black Death did kill as good as 100% of the population in the 14th century in Europe/Asia...however some other regions were not toutched... Climate disasters-on top of pandemics-complicate matters...So can humans survive the upcoming climate/pandemic disasters ? It may be a hard job...but maybe some of us will survive... -One strategy is "duck and cover" -enough stocks in a safe place to survive in an isolated position. Isolation, staying undetected as part of the plan... -Another strategy may see cooperation, planning, even self sacrifice, to get children in a post apocalyptic future...
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