The amount of compium I see in people is scary. This was the warning. Next time could be so much worse and all I see are adults who just act like children. *EDIT Had to add so many people I use to even respect. Once they were told to many times what to do had adult temper tantrums. Acting straight out weird.
Ebola was the preview. COVID was the tutorial. We barely got through them after countless sacrifices made by people who actually gave a damn and even put their own lives at risk.
Never was sure how Captain Trips spread so easily in The Stand. Boy did COVID make it clear how easy it happened.
Meh. Pile it on top of all the cataclysmic climate shit.
The pile labeled "perfect storm"
I'm sure they'll curse us as the oceans swallow the seas anyway.
lol, good luck with that shit when you can’t even get countries to not poison their own air, water, and land. no country will give up the technological and military advantage of understanding more about a pathogen than rivals.
We used to sling plague corpses with catapults to break sieges and weaponized anthrax - employees at Porton Downs are salivating at making a new weaponized horror for the world.
I'm alive rn and I already don't forgive anyone in charge of anything in regards to government and the pandemic.
...but given the part that the WHO played, does giving them global "emergency powers" sound like a good course of action?
Today on Facebook I saw a young mom who is getting her leg amputated because of a COVID driven infection. Idk if vaccinated or not because Facebook took away that as a keyword search, but didn't look obnoxiously antivax at a glance. Like just what a horror show regardless. Everyone should nail every government and WHO and social media to the wall for the shitty job they did in ending this.
Solution, don't use Facebook. I don't and I still have my penis to play with.
The protocol is simple. Just stay home and don't hangout with any Republicans. This is proving to be the current course of action. Once all the remaining Republicans have outlived their COVID expected survival counts, we can emerge triumphant like the cicades. Do our thing for a few days, then go hide for another 3 years and let the Republicans long COVID their ass to their palliative care hospitals. Like a cancer taking your best friend except that they are not best or friends.
And hire police that will come down hard as titanium on idiots rushing stores unmasked and blocking traffic at vaccination centers. And start booting trucks in anti-vax convoys. Treat them like they treat Black Lives Matter.
Im a current generation and I already don't forgive you.
I hope everyone dies next time
Well, luckily, the next generation will be to busy dealing with climate change to even care about a pandemic. maybe wiping 99% of the population is the solution we need, and they end up applauding us for being so stupid
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Objections to the pandemic treaty were recently fueled by online rumors regarding “Disease X” ahead of a January session on the topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which Ghebreyesus attended.
Ahead of the January session in Davos, she tweeted a baseless warning that “unelected globalists at the World Elected Forum will hold a panel on a future pandemic 20x deadlier than COVID.”
The world needs a “robust” pandemic treaty, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told Fortune on Saturday.
Dr. Amesh Adalja—an infectious disease specialist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security—told Fortune that an international treaty or similar mechanism is critical for optimal preparation and response to future pandemics.
Raj Rajnarayanan—assistant dean of research and associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology campus in Jonesboro, Ark., and a top COVID variant tracker—told Fortune on Saturday that a different paradigm may be helpful in pandemic treaty negotiations.
Just as the “indaba” negotiation tactic of the Zulu people of South Africa was used to encourage consensus in 2015 at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, the pandemic treaty may benefit from the “Arthashastra” approach, based on an Ancient Indian treatise written in Sanskrit, he asserted.
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