...And it will be all over the world, and there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, anyone can do to stop it. Unless you shut down all cross-border travel for a few months. That's how Spanish Flu died out. The virus did not get enough fresh meat quick enough to evolve. How many times does it have to be said people. How many times does it take for people to wrap their heads around the concept. Banning air-travel from an infected country to pointless, because by the time the new strain has been detected, it is too late. How many times do we have to go over this, people? Maybe that is why the Biden admin just lifted the SA travel ban? Because hello, it was stupid?
Covid has another couple of years to run, there is no pulling up a drawbridge strategy that can help. FYI, the US has just 4 percent of the world population. A problem mutation will happen domestically eventually. Omicron however may continue to down regulate and become a solution as has happened to prior pandemic viruses.
Not exactly true and it took about 50 million people worldwide to die off and about another 450 million to develop immunity because there were no vaccines available during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. World War I was the cause of the spread of Influenza via troops being transported by ships and then by land upon arrival along with the fact that there were not enough medical personnel to give proper healthcare. ‘The 1918 flu is still with us’: The deadliest pandemic ever is still causing problems today In 1918, a novel strand of influenza killed more people than the 14th century’s Black Plague. At least 50 million people died worldwide because of that H1N1 influenza outbreak. The dead were buried in mass graves. In Philadelphia, one of the hardest-hit cities in the country, priests collected bodies with horse-drawn carriages. In the middle of today’s novel coronavirus outbreak, some are turning to the conclusion of past pandemics to discern how and when life might “return to normal.” The Washington Post has received a few dozen questions from readers who want historical context for our current epidemic. But how did the deadliest pandemic ever recorded come to an end? Over time, those who contracted the virus developed an immunity to the novel strand of influenza, and life returned to normal by the early 1920s, according to historians and medical experts. Reports at the time suggest the virus became less lethal as the pandemic carried on in waves. But the strand of the flu didn’t just disappear. The influenza virus continuously mutated, passing through humans, pigs and other mammals. The pandemic-level virus morphed into just another seasonal flu. Descendants of the 1918 H1N1 virus make up the influenza viruses we’re fighting today. “The 1918 flu is still with us, in that sense,” said Ann Reid, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education who successfully sequenced the genetic makeup of the 1918 influenza virus in the 1990s. “It never went away.” It’s not clear exactly how or where the 1918 influenza outbreak began, but, at some point, the novel H1N1 virus passed from birds to humans. From start to finish, the flu could burn through a town or city in a matter of weeks. Very few people had ever contended with a concoction of influenza like this before, which is why it was so potent, Reid said... https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/01/1918-flu-pandemic-end/ ---------- In immunology, virology, and infectious disease classes today, you learn that viruses have a natural progression where a virus often — but not always — becomes less lethal as time wears on. It’s in the best interest of the virus for it to spread before killing the host. Simply, virues want to live and if they kill every human and every animal on the planet...they will die. Thus, evolution has taught viruses to "become milder" after several waves of infection so that they can survive within a human host without killing everybody. The reason why we today still have Influenza and society has excepted that natural progression with the aid of the seasonal Flut shot (booster shot). wrbtrader
Also, there are too many loopholes in today's ability to travel even when borders are closed by very important people needing to travel, emergency travel, and so on. This is why we'll have a few more waves via new Variants of Concerns before the world gets smarter and learn how to protect itself before Covid decides it's killed off enough idiots in the world. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, World War I was a bigger concern and most scientists eventually lost interest during the war in trying to find a FLU vaccine. In fact, there was a national effort in the U.S. to keep the War as the headline news and very little was said about the Influenza Pandemic except with the military and medical research labs until the war came near to its end. That's the reason why it's also called the "America's Forgotten Pandemic". I have my great-grandfather's 3-year journal during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic when he was a military officer. He talks a lot about how Influenza in the military, soldiers becoming sick on ships during transportation abroad and the soldiers then infecting many towns upon arrival in Europe. Soldiers were more scared of Influenza than War itself...many fought battles while severely ill and many died on the battlefield from Influenza...not from being shot or blown up. World War I killed about 16 million people while the Influenza Pandemic during the duration of the War...Influenza killed about 50 million people. The 1st wave of the Influenza virus...mild symptoms but it still killed about 2 million people worldwide. People were tricked into not preparing for the worst-case scenario. Then it mutated due to no available vaccines...the 2nd wave was deadly (very pathogenic that wiped out an additional 48 million people). wrbtrader
Virus mutates to spread, Omicron is more contagious than the common cold. Only a vindictive, backwards virus would mutate to kill. Close down the bio labs before it's too late.