@Ultragigagigantic to Political Memes • 8 months agoCovid was our practice pandemic. Good thing we learned all our lessons so we can be better prepared for the next one!imagemessage-square12arrow-up1338arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1331arrow-down1imageCovid was our practice pandemic. Good thing we learned all our lessons so we can be better prepared for the next one!@Ultragigagigantic to Political Memes • 8 months agomessage-square12file-text
minus-square@jordanlundlink4•edit-28 months agoTwo really good books on the topic from back in the 90s, talking about the potential for an Ebola-like hemmoragic fever outbreak, highly contagious and highly fatal. The Hot Zone - reads like an adventure novel, or a sensationalistic news story. Later adapted as a TV show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone The Coming Plague - Same story, but reads like a painstakingly researched NYT article complete with a bunch of notations. https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague Worth reading both of them back to back. Hot Zone goes super fast, 2-3 hours, tops. Coming Plague is a deeper read.
minus-square@kameecodinglink2•8 months agoArent there a lot of videos out there of experts (hell even Bill Gates) in the last 2 decades talking about not if a pandemic will happen, but a when?
Two really good books on the topic from back in the 90s, talking about the potential for an Ebola-like hemmoragic fever outbreak, highly contagious and highly fatal.
The Hot Zone - reads like an adventure novel, or a sensationalistic news story.
Later adapted as a TV show:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone
The Coming Plague - Same story, but reads like a painstakingly researched NYT article complete with a bunch of notations.
https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague
Worth reading both of them back to back. Hot Zone goes super fast, 2-3 hours, tops. Coming Plague is a deeper read.
Arent there a lot of videos out there of experts (hell even Bill Gates) in the last 2 decades talking about not if a pandemic will happen, but a when?