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The rate of these things will likely accelerate now that the world is far more interconnected. We’ve had a few scares already - SARS, MERS, Ebola 2014. This i
by SkyMarshal 7y ago
The rate of these things will likely accelerate now that the world is far more interconnected. We’ve had a few scares already - SARS, MERS, Ebola 2014. This is the first one that really went global, but probably won’t be the last for another hundred years.
- JamesBarney 7y agoI don't think the lack of pandemics on the scale of the coronavirus/spanish flu for the last 100 years has been a lack of connectivity. The coronavirus would have played out the same in the 40s as today, except it probably would have been worse in the 1940's. The reasons we haven't had one in 100 years is we haven't had the right virus. Now will we have another in the next 100 years? I don't think anyone knows what the base rate for 1918/coronavirus style viruses are, but there is no reason to think it will happen more frequently than the last 100.