Do you think Covid19 will change very large events forever?
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April 8th, 2020
Like thousands at a sporting event ,or music concert, or even a political rally?
Or a year or two down the road those things will be the same as ever?
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No!
Least I bloody hope not, that would be a world filled with mime acts & we’ll wind up beating the crap out of each other!
I doubt it as people forget history rather quickly.
Doubtful. It won’t go back to normal any time soon but large gatherings will return.
No. We have a large event in September, Bluegrass. It’s a week long event that attracts thousands and thousands of people. I anticipate everything will have settled down by then, if not sooner, and things will be back to normal.
No, because I think COVID-19 will become another flu we will have adapted to, according to what I’ve heard from doctors.
Of course, there are political/social forces driving us to more and more fearful reactions, using this as an excuse for more of that, but I see that as a separate cause and issue.
GA @Zaku. It’s really no different than any other flu, except no one had an immunity to it.
Not forever. A vaccine would lead to things getting back to normal. Until the next pandemic.
Well @mazingerz88 the last real pandemic was a 102 years ago so if they remain that far apart we will be doing great.
Well, that’s because of vaccinations and modern medical knowledge @SQUEEKY2. It’s not an indicator of how far apart they’ll be.
The more industrial/monocultural the world’s agriculture gets, and the more we over-use antibiotics (and perhaps the more we monkey around with genetic engineering and bioweapons), the more we increase the risk of terrible pandemics.
Antibiotics have no effect on VIRUSES !
Viruses are not the only type of disease that could cause a worldwide pandemic.
The 9 largest pandemics are all Viruses. Antibiotics are for Bacterial diseases like Strep throat.
Antibodies are not antibiotics.
Antibodies are from having the Virus or getting a vaccine like getting a Polio vaccination or your annul Flu shot.
Wait…I misunderstood @Zaku. Pretty sure all pandemics are viral in origin @Zaku. Do you know of one that isn’t or wasn’t?
@Tropical_Willie “Antibiotics have no effect on VIRUSES !” – so what?
“Antibodies are not antibiotics.” – you don’t say? Why are you writing that?
@jca2 Yeah, so on that list, plagues, typhoid fever, salmonella, malaria, leptospirosis, cholera, trypanosomosis, relapsing fever, leishmaniasis, el tor, bacterial meningitis, and maybe encephalitis lethargica, are all biotic, not viral.
In 2018. estimated deaths from malaria were 405,000. Of those, 272,000 were children, mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
And, the threat from antibiotics becoming less and less effective, is that the diseases that are already everywhere, but have been treatable, will become less and less treatable with antibiotics. This has already been starting to happen.
What Happens When Antibiotics Stop Working?
The Gathering Storm: Is Untreatable Typhoid Fever on the Way?
Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19
Antimicrobial Resistance, And Lack Of New Drugs, Raises Risk Of A Global Pandemic
@Zaku: I didn’t post that list to argue about it. I just posted it because above, Dutchess mentioned about pandemics being viral in origin, so I was showing a list. Picking the list apart is not something I did or care to do – I barely looked at it.
And I stand corrected. The bubonic plague was bacterial in origin. So is typhoid. We can treat those things now, with antibiotics.
@Zaku‘s focus is on the fact that the over prescribing of antibiotics means we are making ourselves vulnerable to another bacterial pandemic and we won’t be able to fight it.
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