They know because Obama told them
Of course, the elites think the planet is supporting too many people as it is. They just can't decide if the ideal global population is 500 million, where it was for most of human history before capitalism came along, or maybe closer to three or four billion thanks to the technological advances which had nothing to do with capitalism.
That's what happened in Europe in the 1500s during the plagues there, after half the population was dead. That plague, the Black Death was very much like Ebola.
A month or so ago these same experts were telling us how it was ‘impossible’ for Ebola to spread outside Africa. I have no reason to believe them now.
Squirrels and deer, rats... lots of vectors besides humans.
Ask that tool if he'd risk his kids' lives on that graveyard whistling assertion.
Better yet, ask his kids what they think about daddy's moronic optimism.
The author is one “F.D. Flam”...is his first name “Flim”?
We have nothing to worry about.
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Although this is likely a completely accurate predication, how does that help the thousands presently infected or the millions who could die before it exhausts itself? If 50% of the world’s population is going to die, I rather hope that includes this fellow.
“Even without a vaccine, he said, the current outbreak will eventually “run out of fuel” as infected people either die or become immune.”
so just as soon as everyone is exposed to the virus and succumbs, then those of us living in an alternate universe will be able to return safely to earth.
How is this of any practical value? I have to get an Ebola infection and survive, then they’re pretty sure that I won’t get it again...
F. Flam? Really?
The same wizzards who brought us Globull Warming!
bttt
That’s because everyone will be dead.
It will “run out of fuel” and “burn itself out”. The question is how much “fuel” it will consume before that happens.
29% of those exposed get a clinical case of the disease, with about 21% of exposed individuals dying of the disease. 33% of those exposed have some immune response but never develop symptoms; in other words, they fight it off quickly without ever developing a high fever. 38% of those “exposed” (in the sense of having close, unprotected contact) do not develop any immune response and can be assumed to have gotten lucky.
Based on those numbers, Ebola should run out of “fuel” after somewhere between 1.4 and 3.3 billion people. That may not matter to liberals, who see those victims as sources of CO@ “pollution”, but it matters a great deal to me.
Think of the impressive sizes of wild dog packs, after the disease expands much.