An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death
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Unless there's a longer dormant period where this is contagious, but shows no symptoms, this disease kills too quickly to become a world pandemic.
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Anyone that's played plague Inc knows how this goes. It's not a winning strategy.
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Maybe in the US? I'm sorry but we still have food regs in europe
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Do you eat bats often?
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No? Why would I? Is there anything that makes them as a food source particularly beneficial?
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I've changed geographic location many times, there's a huge difference between pickling vs. breading and eating fucking bats.
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You're absolutely correct, in fact most food is usually variations on a theme e.g. meat in bread like sandwiches, burgers, burritos, tacos, dumplings... but this isn't a popular opinion unfortunately.
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Huh? Meat I eat isn't considered to be a risky source of novel coronaviruses
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Do they? Most everywhere people eat basically the same shit. Preparation methods vary and there's substitutions historically based on available resources but globalisation has practically obliterated all that.
I'm not a westoid BTW I've traveled a decent amount.
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Chicken is safe as long as you cook it properly
Beef is safe as long as you cook it properly
And guess what...
Bat is safe as long as you cook it properly
People get sick and die from under cooking beef and chicken all the time, will you stop eating it because of that?
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people eat basically the same shit
Buffalo sauce is a rare sight in Europe, as is white gravy. Americans consider them an everyday occurrence.
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Specifically the flash version?
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Yeah but one of these days a virus is going to get smart and start up in New Zealand and Madagascar. Chuck in a long asymptomatic and game over.
Come to think of it, why haven't viruses done this yet? What are they, stupid?
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Economic desperation and lack of education. Think back to how dumb humans were just like 400 years ago, which is what 20 generations or something? Essentially no grasp of diseases in the modern sense. We are biologically 99.9999% or whatever the same as them.
Ebola spread during that ~2015 outbreak in large part because local customs meant washing the dead and otherwise being in close physical contact. Sadly, people simply didn't know better.
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Asymptomatic until ready then the whole tree in one minute
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we could all just move to greenland and close the ports
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When this civilization falls and the next one is beginning there's going to be a religious ban on eating bats.
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there have been legitimate concerns that the ongoing violence in the DRC could result in lab leaks and whatnot. I believe there are or at least once were some small lab outputs in DRC bush set up to help with monitoring for diseases.
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Oh shit bro delete this. We don't need to be giving Trump any ideas.
It's a bit of a toss up for me between staying in virus plagued USA or locating to Trump's new monarchy in Greenland.
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Hello! I'm from New Zealand. Why is the scenario of a virus starting here a bad thing?
