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Is it conceivable that we could see more 'future pandemics' in years to come ?

more estranged viruses, each more sinister than the previous and more difficult to vaccinate against ?

also am i the only one who appreciates them in terms of their bio-chemical makeup and what they do given they have no conscience ?

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  • Anonymous
    1 week ago

    Count on it.  The future always happens in "years to come".  Yes.  You're the only human who ever lived that has it all figured out.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 week ago

    No, I think we'll see more future pandemics in the past.  Or maybe more past pandemics in the future.

  • 2 weeks ago

    There will always be pandemics - at least until contagious illnesses are extinct.

    Most pandemics are not too deadly.  Do you remember the 2009 "Swine Flu" pandemic?  Highly contagious but a mild illness.  There were several Flu pandemics in the 20th Century, but aside from the 1918 "Spanish Flu," they were not very deadly.  

    This is a real pandemic, and it is more complicated because it is a new disease.  But it has become tangled up with all sorts of political and cultural issues.  

    I remember the 1957 pandemic.  And though it was Flu, it was a lot like covid.  Highly contagious, children got sick but didn't die from it; in fact, the only people who died were, for the most part, the elderly and those with impaired immune systems.  I can recall when 25% of the kids in school were out sick.  But there was no over-reaction.  The political climate was completely different.  WWII had been over for a while, the economy was growing steadily, people were having families, confidence was high.  No lockdowns, no mandatory masks.  No political footballs.

  • D g
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Tying the flu before Of course if we get one for essentially the flu then they will call the next one if we get a fever 

    Please not that roughly 75 percent of people showed 0 symptoms meaning covid was not as deadly as they implied 

    Plus what the government didn't say was how many people died after getting the flu

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  • Cowboy
    Lv 6
    2 weeks ago

    future pandemics are a guaranteed part of life on earth!

  • 2 weeks ago

    Yes we will.  Scientists say it's very likely.

  • 2 weeks ago

    Yes, according to Doctor Fauci: "You have to assume that there are more viruses that are still lurking because we know historically we've had outbreaks long before I've been around, even before recorded history. We know that there have been outbreaks recently, we're in the middle of an outbreak now. And there's no doubt that we're going to have outbreaks in the future."

  • 2 weeks ago

    Your terminology is rather bizarre but yes there will be future pandemics. Should we be concerned? Yes, absolutely. I guarantee that most governments (maybe all) will have learned nothing from this pandemic. Therefore, during the next pandemic we will be back at square one.

    We have to hope that a pandemic does not come along that is as transmissible as COVID-19 is and as deadly as MERS and SARS were. If a virus with those capabilities comes along it will make the number of COVID-19 deaths look minor.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    2 weeks ago

    Not only is it conceivable it's highly likely

  • Lisa A
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    Absolutely. AIDS, ebola, and now covid-19, came from the world being over populated, humans going in to places where they should not be, and killing animals that they should have left alone. We are only going to do this more and more, so we are going to have more and more diseases to deal with.

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