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Corbin,
It's all scary, but I think someone will figure out how to stop this for getting too bad.
posted by
sarooster
on February 17, 2006 at 4:12 PM
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Corbin, straight from a Michael Crichton novel. If Earth lost 142 million
people I doubt the economic effect would be terribly relevant in the aftermath. Even a pandemic that killed a million people would disrupt society enough that civilization as we know it would be crippled, not from the loss but the fear.
A true pandemic like the worst case scenario would be create a Mad Max lawless environment, imho.
I don't forsee Bud-Oracles wish coming to pass however that half of humanity would be destroyed. That takes climate shift and/or meteor impact. Which could happen anytime.
posted by
FreeManWalking
on February 17, 2006 at 11:34 AM
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Corbin, good post. It is amazing we have throughout history had
diseases we hear of them, get lackadaisical and here it comes full blown and people are dying right and left. I feel this may be the same sort of thing.
posted by
Justi
on February 17, 2006 at 11:25 AM
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Bud
It is a ticking clock........nature has a way of correcting things......
Interestng comment......I've been agreeing with you way too much lately!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 17, 2006 at 11:17 AM
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To me the disaster lies in the fact that the worst case scenario is not
up to the task of the cull of the human horde, which is necessary to help nature achieve a balance.
That we are skewed so far out of whack, that our own survival as a species cannot be achieved by nature's cures, is disheartening to me.
You may think that I'm nuts Corbin, but the fat lady hasn't taken the stage yet. We and our progeny will suffer greatly for the false assertion that we are above nature and have dominion over everything.
This much I will say with certainty, within our lifetime the truth of my words will sear themselves in pain into all of our children's lives.
My post today in News& Politics is about the impending disaster, synergy again.
You see a natural balancing of the biosphere, as something to panic over. I see it as a problem too, but for the opposite reason.
For it to be effective, in order for the planet to survive, so that the human species has a chance in nature as well, the cull should actually take from 30% to 50% of the human cancer. 142 million won't even dent the blight on this planet. We are doomed by the inability of nature to balance the equation.
Man is a blight, not a sacred being. The self serving attitude of domination, promoted by religion claiming that we are godlike, is a destructive lie causing the rape of nature and our doom.
posted by
Bud-Oracle
on February 17, 2006 at 11:01 AM
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Truthteller
You obviously have some background for this.......
Am I right....in asking how can you create a vaccine for something that hasn't mutated yet?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 17, 2006 at 7:28 AM
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Corbin
this bird flu stuff is really scary- we got some of the Tamiflu but don't have a lot of faith in it...
posted by
Nanaroo
on February 17, 2006 at 6:59 AM
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Bird Flu Vaccine
It has occurred to me that possibly the mutations to the bird flu, caused by microbacterium avium, are man made and created in the laboratory when the scientists claim to be researching a vaccine. After all, mic robacterium avium has been around since time began; it is in the earth we grow our food in and in the water we drink. We have macrophages, or white blood cells, that eat the "bad" bacteria that enters our bodies. This is also the same bacteria as microbacterium avium complex (MAC) which aids patients get when their immune systems have been compromised. So, is this really a new bacteria, or simply one that has been in labs for many years. Scientists can cause a mutation of the bacteria.
posted by
Truthteller
on February 17, 2006 at 6:27 AM
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