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All the Other [Infectious Diseases] that Aren't COVID-19
Mayabird
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This is the thread for all the other goddamn plagues and developing pandemics spreading around the world, from monkeypox to polio to the Marburg virus outbreak and the many strains of bird flus wiping out wild bird populations but not quite jumping to humans yet and whatever else comes up in this dying dystopian world - aside from COVID-19 which has its own thread that already exists.
If/when the next pandemic becomes a full pandemic that disease can be split off.
If/when the next pandemic becomes a full pandemic that disease can be split off.
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You would not be surprised to learn that antivaxxers are celebrating the spread of polio because of course they are.
I can sort of grasp people being stupid about COVID. It's new. Polio though, that baby has history, panache, street cred.
It might already have spread further without detection though, since polio is being found in the sewage and most places don't have sewage disease monitoring.
Is this commentary about American disease management?
Because if so, yeah. Yeah that, that's probably fair,
Two days after those "you do you" masking signs.
That's not a good number for effectively preventing the spread of a contagious disease.
Yeah, this is literally 100% the fault of not enough vaccinated people. Nothing else is really relevant. Polio will spread until it hits about 80% infected or vaccinated and then become stable, and trend towards elimination if 90% are vaccinated or previously infected.
Don't want this to happen? Get vaccinated and avoid those who aren't.
Antivaxxers + kids missing vaccines because of covid.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
A lot of ultra-orthodox Jewish people in NY are either anti-vaccine, or vaccine neutral enough to not care to get it. They often don't send their kids to public schools, so there isn't the requirement.
And, at least during Covid (which is still going on, but whatever) those communities were actually specifically targeted by anti-vax propaganda. I'm not sure how generic it was or if it was just anti-Covid vax stuff, but it was pretty messed up.
BTW, new new Ebola outbreak, now in Uganda. The Ebola vaccine is not effective against this strain.
The reason why things seem so infectious and severe this year is that the same old viruses are spreading in a population with less immunity from prior infection. Viruses always become as infectious as it is possible for them to be, as being more infectious is equally advantageous in all environments. In fact, slowing infection actually slows the rate of viral and bacterial evolution.
100% human activity effect, 0% virus. This was always a certainty for any anti infection measure we introduced and then stopped.