Friday, April 17, 2020

Inevitable

This pandemic was inevitable. If you study history you can see this. In some ways it doesn't matter how it started it was coming and everyone who studies pandemics knew this. It was only a matter of time.

I would say people need to expect something like this AT LEAST every 100 years or so.

For example, look at the pandemics just of the 20th century.

1918 Pandemic Flu 50 million worldwide died and more U.S. soldiers died of this than died in World war I. why?

Because they were transported to Europe on Ships and this killed them sleeping on hammocks in big rooms on board and then living in barracks killed them too. The proximity in New York from Subways and buses and elevators is what is killing them too.

Next big pandemic I can remember was polio which happened in the early 1950s. My best friend in Junior high and high school had to wear leg braces from this until he was 6 or 7 years old but I didn't meet him until I gave him my newspaper route when I was 10 years old.

The next big pandemic was AIDS which killed at least 30 million to 60 million people worldwide between 1980 and 2007.

And though there were smaller epidemics this one only compares to the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed around 50 million worldwide as World War I ended.

So, in some ways it doesn't even matter how it started one was coming either way. It was inevitable.

There's no one really to blame for this because it was going to come on it's own naturally anyway.

This is just a part of living on earth. Study history if you want to better understand pandemics of the past 3000 years here on earth.

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