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In the wake of the deadly Zika and Ebola virus outbreaks, most countries are still completely unprepared for another potential pandemic, a new study has found, warning that a serious outbreak could result in "millions of deaths and cost trillions of dollars."
"We know that it is only a matter of time before the next pandemic hits us. We also know that there is a good chance that it will be severe," said a 131-page
report by the International Working Group on Financing Preparedness (IWG), established by the World Bank.
It may mean death on a slow fuse, spreading insidiously through populations, unrecognized for years, like HIV in the 1980s. Or it may strike people down with stark violence and lightning speed, plunging national economies abruptly into chaos, like Ebola in West Africa in 2014-15. Whatever its mode of attack, the next largescale, lethal pandemic is at most only decades away," the report warned.
Comment: A few questions come to mind with this report. Is the groundwork for "preparedness" another way of introducing and mandating the use of unproven and dangerous vaccines on whole populaces? Does an investment in "preparedness" facilitate the establishment of large-scale quarantine areas that can be enforced arbitrarily and politically at the point of a gun? Do the proponents of "preparedness" know of some disease that will either be "introduced" to populations of people intentionally - or as a result of, say,
cometary bombardment - or something else?
Whatever the case, it would seem to be helpful to work on building up one's own natural defenses and strength via diet, supplementation and detoxification among other things.
Comment: A few questions come to mind with this report. Is the groundwork for "preparedness" another way of introducing and mandating the use of unproven and dangerous vaccines on whole populaces? Does an investment in "preparedness" facilitate the establishment of large-scale quarantine areas that can be enforced arbitrarily and politically at the point of a gun? Do the proponents of "preparedness" know of some disease that will either be "introduced" to populations of people intentionally - or as a result of, say, cometary bombardment - or something else?
Whatever the case, it would seem to be helpful to work on building up one's own natural defenses and strength via diet, supplementation and detoxification among other things.