Gregory's ServerAt some point we are going to have to grapple with the fact that the way we live ensures that we are going to be periodically lashed with new highly infectious diseases basically forever https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-believed-to-be-killing-seals-in-quebec/ar-AA10h7zb
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Jason Lefkowitz
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People think this is a problem that started with COVID. It is not.
* 2002: SARS
* 2003: H5N1 ("avian flu")
* 2009: H1N1 ("swine flu")
* 2012: MERS
* 2013: Ebola
* 2015: Zika virus
* 2019: COVID
* 2022: Monkeypox
And these are just the ones that broke out regionally or globally. There were lots of smaller epidemics as well that you've never heard of, because they only affected people who live in the Global South.
COVID was just the first one to break through the global system of disease containment. Barring some serious changes in how we relate to the environment, it will not be the last.
People think this is a problem that started with COVID. It is not.
* 2002: SARS
* 2003: H5N1 ("avian flu")
* 2009: H1N1 ("swine flu")
* 2012: MERS
* 2013: Ebola
* 2015: Zika virus
* 2019: COVID
* 2022: Monkeypox
And these are just the ones that broke out regionally or globally. There were lots of smaller epidemics as well that you've never heard of, because they only affected people who live in the Global South.