For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.
Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. . . . Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.
I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!
While carefully synchronizing our wings-they almost touched-Fang leaned in,gently put one hand behind my neck and kissed me. It was just about close to heaven i'll ever get,I guess. I closed my eyes,lost in the feeling of flying and kissing and being with the one person in the world I completely ,utterly trusted.
Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.
Many are called but few get up.