Kingitanga hui

[Lilith7]

Highly unlikely that there will be another pandemic in the next decade like Covid.  Likely longer.

We as a species are still dabbling with infectious diseases in laboratories controlled by corporations and governments with questionable intents, huge numbers of us live in crowded cities that are prime for the spread of pathogens, we are again travelling the globe rapidly in airliners than enables pathogenic organisms to spread very effectively, many nations contain populations that live in close contact with livestock and/or harvest wild animals to supplement their impoverished diets, many developed countries consume highly processed foods including from risky production chains that include intensive livestock containment systems with human populations with extremely compromised levels of health as a result, climate change is unbalancing the existing climatic zones that have previosly held disease vectors such as mosquito populations in check and scientific control measures for diseases are increasingly being questioned if not flatly denied by poorly informed individuals and even politicians on conspiracy theory or political bases.

But the likelihood of another pandemic in the near future is highly unlikely? Hope you're right but I have grave doubts about that. We don't seemed to have learned anything from the bullet we dodged with COVID.

I hope you're wrong but it seems our species is slow at learning lessons, whether that's about pandemics or cleaning up the mess we've made of our planet.