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Because health agencies pour tons of work and money into preventing their spread before the next major disease can hit us. Or would you rather a modern Spanish
by DannoHung 10y ago
Because health agencies pour tons of work and money into preventing their spread before the next major disease can hit us.
Or would you rather a modern Spanish flu pandemic kill half a billion people?
- unclebucknasty 10y ago>would you rather a modern Spanish flu pandemic kill half a billion people? That's asinine. As if the choices are panicked fear or death. Do you think those public health agencies would be somehow less effective in the absence of fear-mongering? My comment is not a question of there being public health threats. It's about the media coverage and the incessant need to sell fear in these times.
- lern_too_spel 10y agoThe author works in public health. Public health policy doesn't happen in a vacuum. Implementing the plan in the article requires public funds, and so it's perfectly reasonable to inform the public.
- unclebucknasty 10y ago>Public health policy doesn't happen in a vacuum. Yes, as any public health official will attest, public health policy happens best in a climate of unbridled fear and panic.
- douche 10y agoWe're probably due for a good culling. There'll be eight billion of us before long. Time to go play Plague, Inc, again...
- unclebucknasty 10y agoIt's OK. As long as we are all morbidly afraid, we will be immune.