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Covid Culture (was Outbreak Culture)
Michael Hardner:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/china-coronavirus-wuhan-public-health-1.5438737?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
Is this going to be bad ? What will the impacts be?
And how will these events interact with social media disinformation?
Michael Hardner:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/asia/coronavirus-victims-wuhan.html
Coronavirus Deaths Are So Far Mostly Older Men, Many With Previous Health Issues
This makes me quite happy, for Easy & Joan but maybe not me. Except I am in 'good health' (for my age)
wilber:
In 2018/19 the "flue" killed between 3 and 5 percent of the worlds population, or between 225 and 375 million today.
That was before air travel.
Queefer Sutherland:
About 800 people died from SARS worldwide, dozens in Canada back around 2003. Many hundreds of people get shot and die everyyear in Canada. So I'm not really worried since the odds are good. Especially since global health protocols and containment are leaps and bounds better since SARS
It's a good media story though. It is scary, "OMG global pandemic!", but when you look at the #'s it's not a threat.
So far I have survived:
SARS
H1N1
Ebola
West nile virus
HIV
Misc. bird flu
mad cow disease
ozone holes
asteroids
solar flares
acid raid
African killer bees
ticks
Y2K
Mayan calendar armegeddon
Nostradamus armegeddon
lead paint
DDT and various pesticides
BP in my plastic
parabens in my lotions
sulfites
nitrates
misc. food preservatives
gluten
global cooling
global warming
Quebec separation
Alberta separation
the Cold War
Communism
North Korea
Thermonuclear annihilation
al Qaeda
ISIS
Donald Trump
your mom
Omni:
No, you haven't survived global warming, (still ongoing) Alberta separation, (hasn't/won't likely happen), ISIS, (on the rise especially since Trump pulled troops from the area) and Trump, (still in the WH incase you hadn't noticed.)
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