New Swine Flu with pandemic potential, July 2020

I'm sorry this is a long post! There's a new Swine Flu arriving, which may have pandemic potential. This is what I received from ProMED-mail earlier today. Sorry to be bearer of bad news! But better we know than don't know.

 

I read about this yesterday. It's scary to think that we could possibly go through this again with yet another virus.

 

I just really wish countries & humans in general would understand that the human animal ecosystem is so complex, we are a part of nature after all.. and it’s better to just leave animals to be and not pump full of antibiotics/ eat/ kill/ use/ encroach on the natural habitat of animals in all the ways humans please. I also wish there was international pressure for countries & large companies and industries to change. So many of these viruses jump from animal to human or mutate because of these reasons.

 

I hope there will be a vaccine available.

Anyone know what the age range was for the "oldsters" who were immune to the 2009 swine flu?

 

Last time I had flu was swine flu, just after that Christmas having had regular flu before Christmas. Ugh I think that's the most ill I've ever been. Pre-ME.
I suppose its no surprise that there's another virus that has the potential to be a pandemic.
2020, the year that keeps on giving!

 

The upshot of this is that it's become clear that human civilization needs to fully understand the biology, physiology and interaction with the human body of viruses and most pathogens. It has become not just a humane need but an economic imperative as well. There is no returning to full economic productivity until significant progress is made. If it's not COVID-19 it will be the next one.

That can had been continuously kicked down the road, leaving us exposed to pandemics in addition to dismissing the massive crisis of chronic illnesses that pathogens leave in their wake. No longer is this sustainable. It could have been done sooner and cheaper, just like climate change it would actually have massively paid off in technological progress. But nooooo we had to do it the stupid and expensive way of letting the problem grow completely out of control before reacting.

One easy way to get some of those resources would be cancelling all the psychosomatic and "evidence-based" nonsense and applying the funds and resources to actual productive uses. I doubt that will happen soon but it's there for the taking, doing nothing productive while actually stifling progress. It's literally free money, just saying.

 

Good summary:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...demic-potential-increasingly-found-pigs-china