Overview<\/b><\/p>\n
Given Covid-19, I almost did not write this threat report.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 I think it is helpful to look at some of the lessons learned, some of the things that could have gone worse, and some things that may yet get worse.\u00a0 There are plenty of resources these days that focus on the epidemiological aspects of pandemics, but here, I want to focus on how government\u00a0 and societal response to pandemics can provide a threat equal to or greater than the diseases in question.<\/p>\n
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History and current analysis<\/b><\/p>\n
All throughout history we have been plagued by a litany of microscopic particles (some alive like bacteria and some just random bits of toxic DNA\u00a0 or RNA like viruses).\u00a0 For most of history these outbreaks or deadly pathogens have occurred in population centers,, and the population has generally reacted about the same.<\/p>\n
SARS-Cov-2 (The pathogen said to cause COVID-19), was the first major pandemic to hit the global population an roughly 100 years.\u00a0 The problem is that in the last 100 years our world has become more integrated, complex, informed, and to a certain extent iresilient.\u00a0 This interdependency and lack of resilience has been and continues to be apparent as we now must suffer through the supply chain and economic consequences of the government and sociological responses to the SARS-Cov-2\u00a0 pandemic.<\/p>\n
While the supply chain and economic\u00a0 aftershocks are just beginning to become apparent. There are other effects of the response to the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic that are much more subtle and subversive, that we have not really stopped to take measure of as a society.<\/p>\n
The first response is the “Othering”. Notice that the global leaders have started to try to manipulate the global populations into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by trying to separate those resistant into a sub-class of citizen.\u00a0 This has had a profound effect in causing division across many sociological institutions, from the workplace, to the church, to the family.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This has made western society vulnerable to yet unseen threat, that most people do not realize.\u00a0\u00a0 If you recall the old adage “Divide and conquer”.\u00a0 The government response to COVID-19 has mad western society much more vulnerable to being conquered.<\/p>\n
All of this for a disease with less than 5% mortality (even in the most vulnerable populations).\u00a0 Now what if we where hit with a much nastier disease.\u00a0 There have been recent reports that the Government views Small Pox as a likely bio weapon that may be deployed against a population in the near future and spark a small pox pandemic.\u00a0 Or what if the Yersinia Pestis Bacteria (bubonic plague) mutates to be antibiotic resistant?\u00a0 Not to mention the various hemorrhagic viruses.\u00a0 IF we ever have a plague along these lines, we can expect a total and complete not just shut down, but end to our modern supply chain economic and defense infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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What can be done?<\/b><\/p>\n
So how to prepare for such an event?\u00a0 Some ideas to think about:<\/p>\n