RE:RE:RE:Delta will likely inhibit the continued US economic revival"A comic book sense of reality. Pathetic. Of course, Notmuch's premise is faulty and unapplicable to today's reality.
"Lets not forget if disease causes mass warefare and famine" - Notmuch's
How about let's not make up bull excrement? There is so much wrong with the statement. First of all disease doesn’t cause war or famine. In fact, history shows that disease reduces warfare thus reducing competition for resources and land. Case comes to mind of the Russian advance In 1772, when “the Russian Tsar Peter the Great tried to capture several water ports on the Black Sea from Turkey. His soldiers were stopped at Astrakhan (a city in southern Russia located on the Volga River delta where it empties into the Caspian Sea) due to an ergot epidemic. They obtained hay for their horses and bread for themselves derived from ergot-infected rye. Both man and beast were affected, destroying their ability to battle the Turks. They were forced to retreat.”
Disease normally doesn’t cause famine, in fact with a smaller population the food resource should provide for survivors.
When I studied population dynamics, we were taught that the “Balance of Nature” was maintained through natural forces that operated in sequence.
First, was predation and the classic study of snowshoe rabbits and Canadian Lynx demonstrated how a fluctuating multi-year balance was achieved.
Next, was the limitation presented by the food supply. If predation failed to limit the population, then it would expand until it exhausted its food supply and that usually resulted in a population crash.
If, however the food supply failed to limit the population DENSITY, then nature offered one more brake on the population and that is disease.
It is critical to note that in today’s global economy and with worldwide transportation we are effectively one single human population. Never before in the history of life on this planet has a species ever faced the threats posed by our human density. We are presently stacking more than 50 people high in concentrated urban centers, and no species has ever endured that level of crowding without the social order breaking down.
People like to compare Covid to the 1918 Pandemic but that was only a prelude of what was to come. There was no air travel then, and only the few could afford sailing on passenger ships. Our population density then was a fraction of today’s and transmission far less likely.
You might want to make a joke of all this, being the simpleton you are, but if you think this virus will just “go away n the Fall”, you even a bigger fool than I take you for. Perhaps because no one would believe them, accusing the government of “fear-mongering” for political gain, but right now, Covid is trying to find a way past our vaccines and immunization.
God help us if it’s successful.
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