OT Our regularly schedule election-year epidemic has arrived

[PtldPlatypus]

2010--H1N1 (started 2009)
2012--MERS
2014--Ebola
2016--Zika
2018--Ebola returns
2020--I think we all remember
2022--Monkey pox
2024--Monkey pox part deux!

https://apnews.com/article/what-is-mpox-monkey-pox-congo-emergency-415d11f9e62d104b4c40dd8fe8e80b47

 

[barfo]

Are you sure it's not the olympics rather than the elections?

barfo

 

[Chris Craig]

No thanks

 

[theprunetang]

The big takeaway here is that nature is brutal and outbreaks of disease occur frequently. Sometimes reality is harsh.

 

[jonnyboy]

The big takeaway here is that nature is brutal and outbreaks of disease occur frequently. Sometimes reality is harsh.

Weird how that didn’t use to be the case during any other time in history.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Weird how that didn’t use to be the case during any other time in history.

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/major-epidemics-modern-era

Working backwards, prior to the every-two-years timeline I started with, there was

• SARS in '02-'03,
• HIV beginning in the '80's,
• H3N2 (Hong Kong flu) in 1968,
• cholera pandemic starting in 1961,
• H2N2 (Asian flu) in 1957,
• and of course the Spanish flu in 1918-1920

Yeah, definitely feels like 8 worldwide epidemics in the past 15 years is a bit of a frequency uptick from 6 in the prior 90.



But I'm sure it's just a function of improved communication technology in the internet age.

 

[jonnyboy]

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/major-epidemics-modern-era

Working backwards, prior to the every-two-years timeline I started with, there was

• SARS in '02-'03,
• HIV beginning in the '80's,
• H3N2 (Hong Kong flu) in 1968,
• cholera pandemic starting in 1961,
• H2N2 (Asian flu) in 1957,
• and of course the Spanish flu in 1918-1920

Yeah, definitely feels like 8 worldwide epidemics in the past 15 years is a bit of a frequency uptick from 6 in the prior 90.

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But I'm sure it's just a function of improved communication technology in the internet age.

The technology has improved. The communication definitely has not.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[beast blazer]

Viral infections are really only a serious threat to those whose health is already severely compromised. With the exception of populations that are exposed to viruses incredibly novel to them. Like the Indians who had been separate from Eurasia for thiu of years.

And no the Spanish fly is not an example, neither is aids or polio

 

[SlyPokerDog]

And no the Spanish fly is not an example, neither is aids or polio

 

[beast blazer]

I'm trying to type on my phone...

 

[e_blazer]

I'm trying to type on my phone...

We wish you wouldn't.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm trying to type on my phone...

No problem, it is one of the funniest things you've ever posted.