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This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

batmagadanleadoff May 30 2020 10:22 AM

Scientists say an apocalyptic bird flu could wipe out half of humanity Excerpt: The coronavirus has killed over 365,000 people worldwide in just five months — but that's nothing compared to what could be coming if humans don't clean up their act when it comes to chickens. In his new book, “How to Survive a Pandemic,” Dr. Michael Gregor, a scientist and physician ... warns that an apocalyptic virus emanating from overcrowded and unsanitary chicken farms has the potential to wipe out half of humanity. Greger, a vegan, writes that “In the ‘hurricane scale' of epidemics, COVID-19, with a death rate of around half of one percent, rates a measly Category Two, possibly a Three. … The Big One, the typhoon to end all typhoons, will be 100 times worse when it comes, a Category Five producing a fatality rate of one in two. … Civilization as we know it would cease.” While environmentalists warned earlier this month that the world would face another stronger epidemic if we continue to have contact with wildlife, Gregor places the blame squarely on chickens. “With pandemics explosively spreading a virus from human to human, it's never a matter of if, but when,” Greger writes. Citing the bird-based Spanish Flu outbreak of 1920, and the H5N1 outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997, Gregor writes, “the worry is that the virus never stands still but is always mutating. … This is the monster lurking in the undergrowth, the one that makes epidemiologists shudder.” https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/apocalyptic-bird-flu-could-wipe-out-half-of-humanity-scientists/

ashie62 May 30 2020 11:23 AM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

From the NY Post. Brap

MFS62 May 30 2020 11:41 AM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=37633 time=1590855743 user_id=68] Greger, a vegan,

I stopped reading there.

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Edgy MD May 30 2020 12:19 PM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

That's almost always a bad idea.

MFS62 May 30 2020 12:44 PM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

Did you say something? Later

MFS62 May 30 2020 12:47 PM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

Edgy MD wrote: That's almost always a bad idea. So, sometimes it isn't? Like when a vegan is warning us that eating meat can be bad? I expect that person to view pandemics through that prism, so reading beyond that point is unnecessary. Later

Edgy MD May 30 2020 03:27 PM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

That's almost always a bad idea.

Lefty Specialist May 30 2020 06:50 PM Re: This pandemic ain't nuthin' compared to the one that may be coming down the line.

Well, maybe THEN Jeff Wilpon would sell the team.