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What does our future hold: will infections continue to dominate? : Comments

By Peter Curson, published 29/1/2020

Attempts to control the virus like those faced by SARS are turning into a nightmare and tells us much about facing the spread of viral infections.

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"Factors such as population growth, human migration, international travel, wars and political unrest, poverty and changes linked to social and economic development are all of critical importance."

That truly is the crux of the matter. We have been sold the "global village view" of the world without ANY understanding of the consequences. Combined with our use and faith in anti-biotics and ignorance of the endless mutation capacity of viruses we have literally been asking for SARS, corona and more to come.

Mind you which is worse, a real virus or the virus of misinformation over climate change cultism. Perhaps more spent on the social and medical management of such outbreaks, and less on the climate change gravy train, we might get a better return for our taxes.
Posted by Alison Jane, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 7:54:32 AM
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The current virus is down to China. If we hadn't sucked up to the Communist dictatorship for the sake of money, Australia would not have had to worry about such things.

Wuhan is an industrial city, not a tourist attraction, so the people involved in the threat to Australia are Chinese, not Australian tourists. Reports on 'Australians' affected is guff; they are Chinese immigrants and students.

The modern trend of mass immigration between countries with different attitudes to health, humanity and ethics is completely unnatural and dangerous to Western countries. We can thank the stupidity and greed of our politicians for threats we now face from globalisation, needless immigration, and the consequent fall in standards of health and safety in Australia.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 8:54:01 AM
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In Perth,a child has arrived from Singapore with measles. While there is the slightest chance that foreign arrivals will bring disease to Australia, our borders should be closed.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 9:32:26 AM
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When our kind first walked upright around 1.5 million years ago, the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere was around 51% It's less than half that now.

Some countries still sterilise their drinking water with oxygen as this also kills most of the nasty pathogens as does UV. Most viruses can only survive for minutes without a host and don't do well when exposed simultaneously to pure oxygen and UV outside a host!!

I contend that the treatment regime for all these viral infections needs to include treatment in a hyperbaric chamber with at least 3 atmospheres. And pure oxygen delivered directly to the patient via a face mask. They can be shaded so the treatment room can be saturated with black light/UV! And staff can be suitably attired so as to protect them from overexposure! Hats, gloves etc.

All the other standard ops and treatment, hydration etc, can continue uninterrupted if we utilise robotics and automation.

What our super-intelligent leaders, geniuses one and all, is, we need to reoxygenate the entire planet, by cultivating more trees and putting broad-scale irrigation into our most arid regions! And transitioning to carbon-free fuels/energy, i.e., MSR thorium nuclear power!

Yes I know that's not possible, nor is manned flight or putting a man on the moon! Or going faster than the speed of sound. Or the speed of light!

So many things are impossible and as distant as someone conquering Mount Everest!

I dare say that would have been less difficult when the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere was 51%.

We need to understand that oxygen is implicated in all healing and if a hyperbaric chamber is not complete isolation then what is!?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 29 January 2020 10:33:59 AM
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SARS killed about 800 people world wide. Eight in the USA.

Coronavirus has so far killed around 150.

This season over 8000 people died from influenza in the US alone. Estimates are around half-million deaths per year world-wide.

Get a grip folks. Its a problem to be addressed, not a disaster to go to water over.

Still it helps to fill the papers now that the bushfires are controlled.
Posted by mhaze, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 10:34:03 AM
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Could this Corona Virus possibly be modified to attack stupidity ? It would solve the overpopulation problem !
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 11:20:42 AM
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