The next virus pandemic is not far away — unless humans change the way they live

Environmental factors including deforestation, air pollution and urbanization contribute to the severity of pandemics like COVID-19. Experts warn that if we continue to destroy the environment, future pandemics could become more common.Jonathan Epstein, vice president at EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based wildlife charity, said land use change, including deforestation, was the “single biggest driver for emerging diseases.

Joe Walston, senior vice president at the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society, also pointed to the trade in wildlife for products such as exotic food, fur and alternative medicines. “We know from past experience with coronaviruses, including SARS, that these viruses are able to spread within market systems,” Epstein said. “The Wuhan market looks to have served, perhaps, as an amplification center, if not the exact beginning of the outbreak.”

“These are the matches that light the pandemic fires, but the fuel on the fire is the globalization of humanity and the increasing population density in cities,” Bernstein said.Fifty years ago, it would have been much harder for COVID-19 to spread from Wuhan to the rest of the world. The city’s residents had neither the means nor option to travel, and its airport was built only in 1995 and did not start international flights until 2000.

Absolutely! Especially in election years when the deep state wants to upset the reelection of someone that is draining the swamp.

Total guff.

Deepneuron Cities are cancer.

Deepneuron Can't beat nature

To be fair the only reason Rona is considered a pandemic is because it crossed international borders. Disease outbreaks happen regularly *unfortunately* Ebola in Africa, SARS China 2003, H1N1 was world wide, bird flu, etc... Containment and study are the keys to stopping them.

Good

“Initially, Chinese health officials thought COVID-19 had jumped from an animal to a human at a Wuhan food market where wildlife was sold. More recent evidence suggests the virus originated elsewhere”... why leave out where the virus came from?

No thanks.

Fuck no. Democrats will keep us in chains with these 'lockdowns'

Sure they are..

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