Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Stephan: One of the effects of climate change is going to be a radical alteration in global health, with epidemics, and plagues of infectious diseases. The 2050 remote viewers predicted this beginning in the 1980s. We are woefully unprepared. Am I exaggerating? Here is the World Health Organization assessment, and this is what must be done. It is a restatement of the Theorem of Wellbeing.
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Government leaders need to implement a “decade of change” and invest more in the key health priorities and systems to prevent global health threats over the next decade, the World Health Organization warned last week.
What’s new: Climate change, infectious diseases and epidemic threats, socioeconomic inequalities, and conflicts are some of the 13 urgent challenges WHO says will imperil global health — but addressing them is “within reach” if action is taken now.
What they’re saying: Eric Toner, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins’ Center for Health Security, tells Axios “the threats posed by nearly constant infectious disease outbreaks and the looming threat of another pandemic are very real” and should involve both the private and public sector in crisis preparations.
- “As we demonstrated in our Event 201 exercise in October, the world is ill-prepared for a severe pandemic. Such a global disease outbreak would not only cause widespread illness and death but there would be severe societal and economic consequences as well,” […]
My wife Barbara heard that a new incurable disease started in China and at least one person with that disease made it to the USA. It has no cure and resists all known treatments. It would appear that the predictions are already happening.
PS: I just saw it on our local news station and it is called the “Corona” virus and all of Hong Kong is now under quarantine as well as other cities.