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Frankly, it's hard to say. The year before it, we had super gonnerhea scare. Before that the hospital super bacteria scare. Before that, it was the ebola scare.
by basetop 7y ago
Frankly, it's hard to say. The year before it, we had super gonnerhea scare. Before that the hospital super bacteria scare. Before that, it was the ebola scare. Ever since I'd started paying attention to the news, we have a medical (bacteria/virus/fungi/etc) related scare every few months so I've just learn to ignore it mostly. It seems to come in waves. Now, we seem to be in a medical scare phase with fungi, measles, etc. Invariably this scare will die down and we'll all forget it and a new scare ( asteroids, supervolcanoes, ? ) will take over. Then it'll be climate or AI or social media or maybe north korea or terrorism or whatever is in queue. I've just learned to not care. I'm numb to the incessant fearmongering.
- dashmatte 7y agoYou have to judge each scare by weighing the evidence yourself. The news business model relies on scaring the snuff out of us for clicks so we are left weigh the evidence ourselves. I think people do a better job at this then we realize. Like Ebola< low concern because its not transmitted by air only with open wound contact very few cases in the US. All people infected are quarantined> Super valcanos..we have a ten percent chance for it to blow up by the end of the century. For me not too worried. But everything i read on fungus infections...this is going to be a problem. This is going to be a huge challenge for this coming decade. These links below explain> https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2010/mar/fungi-can-change-quickly-pass-along-infectious-ability https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2010/mar/fungi-can-ch... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095543/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095543/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061021115712.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061021115712.h...