Hey chat is it a good thing if:
- there’s a looming energy crisis
- a bunch of crops are having really low yields
- there are lakes and rivers completely drying up
- we’re about to enter a super El Niño
- data/fusion centers are polluting/consuming the water/air en masse
- thousands of people have died in India due to heat before summer’s even officially hit
- and there’s another pandemic brewing in Africa just prior to millions of people traveling for the World Cup?
How long do we have before shit starts to break down due to lack of food and water, even in the imperial core? I give it less than a year at best.
You do not have to worry about the Ebola epidemic in Africa rn. So long as it does not become suddenly airborne (which this strain is not particularly likely to do iirc) we will be fine. Much of Ebola’s ability to spread is aided by the DRC’s inadequate medical system and armed conflicts. Ebola is an awful and existentially dreadful disease that will naturally occupy your mind but I insist that its potential to become a pandemic is low.
Everything pretty much sucks tho yeah
I’d be more worried about finding out there’s some fun cool side effects to covid infection 15-20+ years on i.e. post-polio syndrome (which killed Isaac Asimov)
Why would a majority of the population having organ damage from repeated infections affect their long term health??
that’s an entirely separate issue from dormant viral DNA starting to fuck you up again 20 years later (which we don’t know if it does, but if it goes dormant in nerves/etc, why not) but yes that too
I just keep hearing the whole “normalcy and established institutions and their regular functioning will save us” sentiment and it’s giving me mad Déjà vu. Maybe you’re right. It just seems like everything that could go wrong for the stupidest reasons possible must go wrong.
CW: mention of self harm
If the Bundibugyo strain becomes airborne it is almost certainly because god exists and they hate us. There is precedent for an airborne filovirus (Ebola Reston) but it thankfully doesn’t affect humans. Regardless it means that Ebola has the capacity to become airborne. The odds of this happening is very low but should this ever happen and make it to my country of residence I am killing myself. I don’t mean to alarm I just mean to impress that if I thought this outbreak had pandemic potential I wouldn’t downplay it like in my previous comment. You can rest easy knowing that Ebola is a relatively immobile virus and should that change it would be divine punishment rather than human failure.