Spiritater wrote:a freind of mine in his late 80s said to me today he'd not felt this way since 1939. he said it's like we're on a war footing
part time pete wrote:Spiritater wrote:a freind of mine in his late 80s said to me today he'd not felt this way since 1939. he said it's like we're on a war footing
We are
Beano wrote:part time pete wrote:Spiritater wrote:a freind of mine in his late 80s said to me today he'd not felt this way since 1939. he said it's like we're on a war footing
We are
Apart from the loss of life
The chances of a worldwide recession and mass redundancies/bankruptcy are terrifying.
The leisure industry alone (responsible for millions of careers) is set to be virtually wiped out.
Most of us will come out of the other side, but the world could be very different.
Scary stuff
Stags 2002 wrote:Beano wrote:part time pete wrote:Spiritater wrote:a freind of mine in his late 80s said to me today he'd not felt this way since 1939. he said it's like we're on a war footing
We are
Apart from the loss of life
The chances of a worldwide recession and mass redundancies/bankruptcy are terrifying.
The leisure industry alone (responsible for millions of careers) is set to be virtually wiped out.
Most of us will come out of the other side, but the world could be very different.
Scary stuff
Agree it's scary stuff it's not great but it could be significantly worse look back in history it isn't the first disease to spread significantly across the globe and won't be the last. Smallpox, bubonic plague, Spanish flu to name but a few of the biggest killers in history with significantly higher fatality rates.
We ain't out the woods far from it (I expect it to get worse before it gets better) we are however in many ways a victim of our own success the aviation industry merely speeds up transmission around the globe when previously disease would be localised in many areas because we didn't have the means to transport it so easily. We think as a species we know most things about this planet we call home however in a matter of months we have fallen into chaos, six months ago Corona was associated with a lager not a virus. In many ways it should be seen as a warning if and when a more deadly strain of virus (yet to be discovered or a mutation of a milder virus) decides to test us as a species could we cope?
The answer given we're likely 18 months away from a successful vaccine for this virus suggests not. That for me is the really scary thing despite all the technological advances we have made we are still only one highly infectious and highly fatal disease away from extinction with no way of stopping it.
Amber Andy wrote:Stags 2002 wrote:Beano wrote:part time pete wrote:Spiritater wrote:a freind of mine in his late 80s said to me today he'd not felt this way since 1939. he said it's like we're on a war footing
We are
Apart from the loss of life
The chances of a worldwide recession and mass redundancies/bankruptcy are terrifying.
The leisure industry alone (responsible for millions of careers) is set to be virtually wiped out.
Most of us will come out of the other side, but the world could be very different.
Scary stuff
Agree it's scary stuff it's not great but it could be significantly worse look back in history it isn't the first disease to spread significantly across the globe and won't be the last. Smallpox, bubonic plague, Spanish flu to name but a few of the biggest killers in history with significantly higher fatality rates.
We ain't out the woods far from it (I expect it to get worse before it gets better) we are however in many ways a victim of our own success the aviation industry merely speeds up transmission around the globe when previously disease would be localised in many areas because we didn't have the means to transport it so easily. We think as a species we know most things about this planet we call home however in a matter of months we have fallen into chaos, six months ago Corona was associated with a lager not a virus. In many ways it should be seen as a warning if and when a more deadly strain of virus (yet to be discovered or a mutation of a milder virus) decides to test us as a species could we cope?
The answer given we're likely 18 months away from a successful vaccine for this virus suggests not. That for me is the really scary thing despite all the technological advances we have made we are still only one highly infectious and highly fatal disease away from extinction with no way of stopping it.
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