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re: Cheerful reading: Pandemic that could kill tens of millions is likely
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:23 pm to CherryGarciaMan
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:23 pm to CherryGarciaMan
We have skirted the potential 100's of millions of people dying when we created vaccines. Vaccines are great and save a large amount of lives but we did not look at the effects of having 100's of million of extra people on earth. The population can only expand so much before we run out of resources. It won't happen in our life but it will in our earth's future.
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Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:23 pm to flyAU
You obviously don't have kids
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:31 pm to Jim Rockford
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a pandemic that would sicken a billion people, kill 165 million people and cost the global economy about $3 trillion would occur sometime in the next two generations
that is less than 9/11 cost the USPosted on 2/23/16 at 5:34 pm to soccerfüt
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Sure, we should frame global pandemic issues about your Mom's departure date.
You're a troll.
Dude I know flyAU and he is in cancer research field, he isn't trolling you
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:36 pm to Mrtommorrow1987
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Vaccines are great and save a large amount of lives
But but but they cause autism!
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:37 pm to Catman88
Out of all the responses on here saying "good" you think that me questioning the use of the word "pre-mature" is the one to single out? Disease kills people every day and that is how most of us will die. I think casting "pre-mature" is an incorrect use to discuss the horrendous scene and loss that would be 10's of millions of people dying. I was asking that over reactionary poster what they feel the word means to them. Then is shitty in responding to me about my mom dying at 57 when I said I felt that was before her time.
I don't have room to hate people on a message board, but frick that guy.
I don't have room to hate people on a message board, but frick that guy.
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:41 pm to lsu480
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lsu480
I think what I I was trying to say was lost in translation. How ya doing bud?
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:41 pm to Jim Rockford
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the next "Big One"
My money is on Influenza.
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:44 pm to Michael J Cocks
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Yeah, in actuality the culling of our species is a happy thing. What's sad about potentially losing 100+ million lives, possibly friends and relatives? Prick.
I guess I was taking it from a scientific view.
The Earth is extremely over populated, you would think Mother Nature would fight back over time.
Of course it would suck to lose friends and family.
Posted on 2/23/16 at 5:45 pm to Jim Rockford
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Citing a 2006 survey, Shah says, "the majority of ... pandemic experts of all kinds, felt that a pandemic that would sicken a billion people, kill 165 million people and cost the global economy about $3 trillion would occur sometime in the next two generations."
So, we have 7.4 billion people on Earth now.
In 2050, estimates are 9.7 billion or so.
I live in a first world country with modern medicine.
165 million dead? I like my odds.
This post was edited on 2/23/16 at 5:46 pm
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:25 pm to lsu480
Well his rhetorical take in this thread was out of context and capricious. If we were discussing some type of malady which only afflicts geriatrics then asking about what an appropriate or acceptable age to die here (in this thread) would make sense.
flyAU: Sorry if your intent was not to flame, it surely seemed otherwise.
Also, sorry for the loss of your mother at that age. Both of my parents were not at my 30th Birthday party.
Better days-
flyAU: Sorry if your intent was not to flame, it surely seemed otherwise.
Also, sorry for the loss of your mother at that age. Both of my parents were not at my 30th Birthday party.
Better days-
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:30 pm to Jim Rockford
If it causes pneumonia I'm out with the quickness. It took me seven weeks to kick my last bronchial infection. I used to get over it in seven days.
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:32 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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So, we have 7.4 billion people on Earth now.
In 2050, estimates are 9.7 billion or so.
To quote Dwight K. Schrute, "we need a new plague."
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:38 pm to soccerfüt
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soccerfüt
No problem. My fault for poor communication. Sorry about your loss as well. I am extremely lucky to be in a field to do my best to kick the crap out of the disease that took my Mom.
This post was edited on 2/23/16 at 6:40 pm
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:40 pm to Jim Rockford
I don't care. I'm prepared to die.
Are you?
Are you?
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:41 pm to Kjun Tiger
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My money is on Influenza.
Mine is on affluenza. That's the shite that really kills people.
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:44 pm to Cdawg
I remember the Ebola scare that was going to a million in the U.S.A in one year. Before that it was the swine flu. Is this the next 'Big One' ?
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:45 pm to Jim Rockford
Are you hoping for this after Trump wins?
Posted on 2/23/16 at 6:47 pm to flyAU
Thanks for what you do.
That must be rewarding.
Good luck to you.
That must be rewarding.
Good luck to you.
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