'Next pandemic is around the corner,' expert warns - but would lockdown ever happen again?
Four years after the UK's first COVID lockdown was announced, infectious disease experts explain why it's increasingly likely a virus will "jump" from animals to humans and cause another pandemic.
Scientists warn global warming and deforestation are also making it increasingly likely that a viral or bacterial agent will "jump" from animals to humans and cause another pandemic.
Yes it's "expert warns" time and more jumping viruses. The little blighters might even "jump" from a lab - you never know. The viruses that is, not the experts. Still, they managed to squeeze a reference to global warming so that might lead to a funding jump, which is probably what it's all about.
A much bigger long-term danger is a kind of collectivist dominance fetish which seems to assist in driving such speculation and many other concocted anxieties.
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As the article notes, last time we had to stay home to protect the NHS. The NHS has continued to deteriorate, so obviously they want us to stay home again so it can recover properly.
Prediction of the future is best done by a compromise between modern and ancient methods. That is, read the entrails of the experts.
This warning about a future pandemic is brought to you by the Ministry of Serenity.
I can't imagine why the powers that be should want docile and fearful proles. /sarcasm
They missed Brexit, Extreme Right, White Privilage and Trump.
Anything else? LBGBQWERTY+!phobia? The Putin?
I am sure that they need more "funding".
But in a far away land, secure in his mountain fastness The Gates cracks a little smile and gives the big fluffy white Persian nestling in his lap another stroke.
Beautifully put AK.
Sam - it's odd, as if the NHS hasn't coped well with a period of reduced workload. Or the government response to the pandemic has created a significantly greater workload, but we mustn't say that.
dearieme - ha ha, yes let's at least go back to more robust days.
DJ - it's all they seem to know too. The Nudge Unit seems to have created an impression that really big nudges are best.
Doonhamer - with Gates' wealth I think I'd like a mountain fastness where I could sit and smile a little smile. No Persian though.
Tammly - thanks very much. The media almost seem to go out of their way to invite sarcasm these days don't they?
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