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People having been practicing these for centuries, what has changed recently that it has become a global pandemic ?
by vvram 6y ago
People having been practicing these for centuries, what has changed recently that it has become a global pandemic ?
- seanmcdirmid 6y agoPopulation densities, ease of travel long distances around the world.
- twomoretime 6y agoNow you have more than a billion people poaching rare animals to extinction because of superstition, in totally unsanitary wet markets that, frankly, have no place in a modern country. What changed are the numbers.
- typon 6y agoIt's possible that these viruses jumped to humans all the time in the past and killed a particular village, town, city. Now we have global travel enabled by planes/cruises/cars. The spread is what's killing us with this latest pandemic.
- MikeAmelung 6y agoClusters of villages being turned into major urban centers, connected by high-speed rail, further connected to the rest of the world by air?
- vikramkr 6y agoNothing had to change. We've had plenty of pandemics before. Black death, 1918 flu, smallpox, cholera, and so on and so on and so on and so on. We're at an all time low in infectious disease deaths in human history - so if anything it's gotten way better thank to vaccines and public sanitation/health efforts.
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