Time to cull the herd?

Rockstar · 03-03-17, 11:54 PM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4f082363c7e5

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A surge in human infections of a deadly bird flu in China is prompting increasing concern among health officials around the world. While the human risk of these outbreaks is low at the moment, experts are calling for constant monitoring because of the large increase in cases this season, and because there are worrisome changes in the virus. U.S. officials say of all emerging influenza viruses, this particular virus poses the greatest risk of a pandemic threat if it evolves to spread readily from human to human, according to a report released Friday.

CDC report. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/...cid=mm6609e2_w

How many rememeber back in the day when not only couldn't this flu be transmitted between humans, bird to human inffection was a extremely rare event.

Skybird · 03-04-17, 03:40 AM

The planet certainly would not complain if mankind were about to loose a couple of billions. Thats the point: man is sentimental, and morally handicapped - nature is not. If we do not get our acts together and breed like crazies, of which mass animal farming and superintense agriculture are consequent results, then nature takes care of them in its own unique, unsentimental way. And by intense monocultures and industrial lifestock farming, we help such pandemics to rise, and spread.

Not the only reason, but a major one.

Jimbuna · 03-04-17, 07:18 AM

Natures way of culling perhaps?

Obltn Strand · 03-04-17, 07:30 AM

My father once said that humans could be evolution's mistake. Quess there's some seed of truth about it. Perhaps nature fixing it's mistakes...

Skybird · 03-04-17, 09:48 AM

^ I admit I tend to have my doubts, too. Maybe not a mistake in the meaning of "not worth to research it further", but a design study that ultimately has led into a dead end. - Bitter to realise that, as a human, maybe, but I never seemed to have bought the idea of man being the "crown" of evolution. Just one strain amongst many others, being run and tested under the blueprint title "sophisticated individualized intelligence concept study". It may be like with concept cars. They get tested, but the serial production cars then look very different, and concept cars end up in museums soon.

Oberon · 03-04-17, 09:57 AM

We're certainly not immune to the laws of nature, no matter how hard we try.

Time to move to Madagascar perhaps?

03-04-17, 03:40 AM	#2
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,616 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The planet certainly would not complain if mankind were about to loose a couple of billions. Thats the point: man is sentimental, and morally handicapped - nature is not. If we do not get our acts together and breed like crazies, of which mass animal farming and superintense agriculture are consequent results, then nature takes care of them in its own unique, unsentimental way. And by intense monocultures and industrial lifestock farming, we help such pandemics to rise, and spread. Not the only reason, but a major one. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

03-04-17, 07:18 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Natures way of culling perhaps? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-04-17, 07:30 AM	#4
Obltn Strand Commodore Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 614 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	My father once said that humans could be evolution's mistake. Quess there's some seed of truth about it. Perhaps nature fixing it's mistakes... __________________ Himmel, sukeltakaa!

03-04-17, 09:48 AM	#5
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,616 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	^ I admit I tend to have my doubts, too. Maybe not a mistake in the meaning of "not worth to research it further", but a design study that ultimately has led into a dead end. - Bitter to realise that, as a human, maybe, but I never seemed to have bought the idea of man being the "crown" of evolution. Just one strain amongst many others, being run and tested under the blueprint title "sophisticated individualized intelligence concept study". It may be like with concept cars. They get tested, but the serial production cars then look very different, and concept cars end up in museums soon. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

03-04-17, 09:57 AM	#6
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	We're certainly not immune to the laws of nature, no matter how hard we try. Time to move to Madagascar perhaps?