Daniel · 12 answers · 3y

Do you think it's likely that you will experience a worse pandemic during your lifetime than this one?

Head says - no. They are very rare (100+ year) incidents. Plus we have to learn lessons.

I'm with Kate, I suppose statistically only one should come around every 100 years, but I feel like global conditions are probably becoming more and more conducive to viral outbreaks and pandemics, though I don't know the details.

I think this gets more and more possible seeing that the conditions become more and more in favour of such things happening.

A novel viral pandemic? Not likely, which is good because absolutely zero will be learned from this - if another novel virus were discovered tomorrow America would have the same shitty healthcare system,
same rhetoric, same semi-lockdowns (only for people of means - the 'essential' poors must go work for crumbs) that would make things worse, same refusal to waive patents so poor countries could copy vaccines, same politics and (bi-partisan) foot dragging on relief, on and on...

I don't think so, since I hardly believe a deadlier disease would spread easily enough to become a pandemic

No. I think it's an anomaly. Something this extreme has only happened a handful of times within the last 100 years.

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