So what’s next?

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(06-16-2020, 05:04 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: Humans are doomed.

“This spring, after the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic could spread swiftly when children gathered for shots, many countries suspended their inoculation programs. Even in countries that tried to keep them going, cargo flights with vaccine supplies were halted by the pandemic and health workers diverted to fight it.

Now, diphtheria is appearing in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Cholera is in South Sudan, Cameroon, Mozambique, Yemen and Bangladesh.

A mutated strain of poliovirus has been reported in more than 30 countries.

And measles is flaring around the globe, including in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Nigeria and Uzbekistan.

As the pandemic lingers, the W.H.O. and other international public health groups are now urging countries to carefully resume vaccination while contending with the coronavirus.”

NY Times, June 14 2020

Or... we just have instant global news coverage, so we are just more aware of how many things are simultaneously happening when we would never have known in the past. Probably also combined with there actually being doctors in all the countries around the world now who can recognize when an outbreak is happening and what the outbreak is of.

Same with violent crimes in the US. It's much better than it used to be, but the coverage of it has been increased by that much more as well, so it just gives everyone the impression it's worse.

There's a limit to how much bad information a human is capable of handling in a set period of time and 24/7 news coverage and social media has rocketed us straight past it.