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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15566 |
Interesting article from May 2014 about the emergence of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, both predecessors of COVID-19: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019136/ |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1488 |
How did I get tagged as a help desk expert and volunteer tester? I don't remember for signing up to that. |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1488 |
Since distributed computing is pretty much an anarchy I pretty much doubt that. |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1488 |
"I wish we could replace government with anarchy." I don't, I've watched too many Mad Max movies, I don't ant to go there, do you? |
Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2493 |
"I wish we could replace government with anarchy." Some do wish for the life before the babylonian empire. |
Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1654 |
How did I get tagged as a help desk expert and volunteer tester? I don't remember for signing up to that. It's just an honorary label given to those who have been helpful for a while. It can be made to disappear if you don't want it, just by saying so a few times. Then it'll be gone again, like dew drops in the morning sun. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jun 09 Posts: 2104 |
Funny that. The plague originated in Africa.Interesting article from May 2014 about the emergence of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, both predecessors of COVID-19: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019136/Always from animals, always from the East. Westernised vegetarians don't cause these problems. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jun 09 Posts: 2104 |
The interesting question from all of this is "How do we prevent it happening again"That's all good & well to prevent transmission on a continental level, but what about on a national level? It will also take a long time for the "social distancing" mindset to pass from the collective consciousness.How about 300 years? The 40 day quarantine for the plague was rigorously established and completely successful for 300 years. It corresponds with the long incubation period that has been established for the plagues of Europe. I am 69 this month, and have a strong feeling the world has changed and it will never return to the way it was in my lifetime.Only if those in control realise that what worked well in the past can be very effective today. Personally, I think that will be an impossibility. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jun 09 Posts: 2104 |
Secondly I bet meat was involved in the plague.No, just rats & fleas. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jun 09 Posts: 2104 |
What exactly would you like to see them do?Stop eating meat. :-) |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1488 |
How did I get tagged as a help desk expert and volunteer tester? I don't remember for signing up to that. OK, I'm good with that. |
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