“So why have we been so confident that infectious disease is no longer a global threat ….”

Are we confident, or is it just that humans don’t give a thought to anything until it happens? And how do we know in time that a rogue state is going produce a virus and release it, accidentally or deliberately?

To understand some of this? One needs to understand the role of climate change in the evolution of disease. You see just as oxygen is implicated in all healing, it is also involved in sanitising our environment. When our ancestors climbed down from the trees and started to walk upright. the percentage o oxygen in the atmosphere was around 51%.

Now around 21% and a far more friendly environment for all manner of previously unknown pathogens. Fortunately, this is something we can reverse!

In order to increase the oxygen as a percentage of the atmosphere w need to seriously reduce the CO2 content and production.

Seawater can be vacuumed in vacuum towers and the gases vacuumed out then separated via fractional distillation.

Not that we can remove all CO2 or would want to if we could and we can't because of CO2 affinity with H2O. As fast as we take out of seawater, almost as much is reabsorbed from the atmosphere!

That which we remove can be used in glasshouses to purge them of insect predation. The advantage of glasshouses, broad-scale agriculture is the fact they use only around 2% of traditional irrigation And can be purged of insect predation with concentrated CO2 Lights will continue the photosynthesis and oxygen production.

Biodegradable plastic used as ground cover inside will keep the weed species under control minus the herbicide. The increased oxygen production could be piped in nearby houses to assist the disinfection of the adjacent Agri workforce, domestic environment! Otherwise used as piped gas that the workers beath inside CO2 purged glasshouses As would steam cleaning protocols.

This could easily become the only way we could grow our food in the climate-change future. And would mean most summer crop food production would become worker intensive?

All the above protocols only become doable with the production of cheap energy. Given that energy is MSR thorium/nuclear, we can take full advantage of homoneses to improve the overall health of the community/disease reduction/natural herd immunity.

Without which our recent experience will pale into insignificance with what will be in store! TBC.
Alan B.

Very 9ften, even in just the last f0rty years, viruses have come from 'bush-meat', for outside goods, i.e. between populations still living in 'wild' areas, and city-dwellers - pangolins for flashlight batteries, grain for antelope-meat, honey for salt.

The HIV-AIDS virus, the Ebola virus and the Zika virus were just three. Perhaps local populations have inherited immunity, but outsiders can be affected, perhaps the further away, the more so.

Yes, perhaps the Chinese totalitarian system deliberately and consciously ordered its scientists to develop these strains of Covid-19 in order to impair the rest of the world, especially the US in some way. Trumpf carried out his role on behalf of his CCP masters as virus-spreader by impeding the US's medical efforts:

* demeaning Dr Fauci,

* making light of the virus ('It's only a sort of flu'),

* joking about drinking disinfectant and shining a strong light up one's arse;

* opposing masks as wussy;

* allowing rampant travel everywhere;

* never even beginning contact tracing, so now 1.5 million Americans are being infected each week, with any thought of tracing utterly beyond the system. What a hero.

I hope that eventually a full investigation can be made of how this virus spread. And to get ready - readier - for the next one, from the Amazon or S-E Asian or north Queensland jungles.

Joe

Alan B: Go and read a high school science text book and learn something about science because what you've written has some astounding misunderstandings and inaccuracies.

<< Yes, perhaps the Chinese totalitarian system deliberately and consciously ordered its scientists to develop these strains of Covid-19 in order to impair the rest of the world, especially the US in some way. >>
Any wonder our relationship with China is in trouble when we have ignorant and provocative statements like this being put out in the public realm. Yes, the virus might first have become evident in China, but that does not mean it originated there. There is still no definitive proof of its exact origins. Even if we do eventually find it did originate in China, there is at this point absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it was released deliberately. Why the hell would any government release an unknown and deadly virus on its own people? Your statement makes no sense, loudmouth2, and is highly offensive.

Cont. The energy we need for all the above and nation-building rapid rail is nuclear. Not conventional nuclear but MSR thorium nuclear! And available in around 12 months as fully operational 500 MW reactors built inside double-hulled barges, built in Scandinavia! And able to be towed to any suitable shoreline, river system or estuary that serves our needs!

And able to be retasked to burn and re-burn nuclear waste other nations pay us annual billions to take off their hands! And or power we can generate from thorium for around 1 cent PKWH! And as we do so, create copious cancer-curing alpha particle bismuth 213! And consequent annual millions of medical tourists! That'll support outback towns and rural airlines etc!

Power at around 1 cent PKWH would allow us to compete with any current manufacturer using coal-fired power, oil, gas or renewables and beat their pants off at manufacturing! Power for the deionisation dialysis desalination plants we will need to survive the very next drought.

Power we will need to air-condition and sanitise our homes with UV in the rooms that are empty for more than an hour a day! As they inject already air via ozone scrubbers.

Thinkabit. Stand by all that I've written! And challenge you to put up or shut up! Perhaps D Trump is your expert source? Jawhol?

Name the scholarly tomes and experts you have used to validate your cyber bullyboy borderline abuse/verbal vomit. Books and indexes, please!

Thinkabit, as a nom-de-plume, is an oxymoron if ever there was one, because there is no evidence that you can actually do that.

Bogus (flat-earth) links sourced/created in St Petersburg won't prove anything other than my accurate take on you and your disingenuous jaw flap.
Alan B.