New flu, new pandemic possible

Of course, nothing is new to mainland China when it comes to this kind of stuff. This isn't the first time a flu strain with at least some pandemic potential has been popping up in China as their coronavirus wrecks havoc on the world. Earlier, during this coronavirus pandemic, a bird flu (the deadliest flu strain) strain was found in chickens and made a little girl critically ill.
The last thing we need are 2 pandemics happening at the same time. Until coronavirus came in, pandemic preperation has been mediocre and focused only on pandemic flu strains.
To tell you the truth, given the choice between this coronavirus pandemic and a flu pandemic, I would rather have a flu pandemic going on instead of this. At least we have Tamiflu, and other flu antivirals that can work even against the H5N1 bird flu. And pharmaceutical companies at, least, have some blueprint and foundation to make a vaccine for a pandemic flu.
But this COVID-19, caused by a SARS-CoV-2 virus is a new and totally unique virus, even among the Coronavirus family. It has been engineered with an HIV strain in a biolab and can infiltrate the immune system and attack host cells, like how an HIV virus can do.
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Despite efforts to make a widely available vaccine, it might not ever happen. Even among those who have recovered with mild symptoms, they can get sick with the same virus again. And we know little what long-term or latent conditions that can pop up in some survivors in the future, just like how a Measles virus can set in a time ticking bomb for a condition called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE).
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I bet Xi and the rest of the CCP are just tickled pink over the effects they've had on America.

timothyu said:

You are missing the agenda behind building the fear factor. But on the bright side covid has hit around 500,000 deaths, still a 100,000 short of what the flu killed last year globally, so there is hope.

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COVID has token 500,000 lives within just 6 months. If it has already has that much casualties within a short amount of time, wait another 6 months which will make it a year. And then, we shall see how that compares with the flu.
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BTW, a pandemic flu is NOT the same as a seasonal flu, although towards the end of a flu pandemic, the weakened pandemic flu can become part of the seasonal flu circulation, as did the H1N1 swine flu. A pandemic flu is worse, can prevail at any time of the year, and usually younger people are more likely to get critically ill or die from a pandemic flu than older people.
Whereas in COVID-19, it at first, seems like the opposite unless the younger person had a pre-exsisting health issue, like asthma. But then there is this Kawasaki-like syndrome that happens in some infected kids, teens, and young adults. And though healthy kids, teens, and young adults are less likely to get seriously ill or die from COVID-19, that same kids, teens, and young adults age group is more likely to get seriously ill or die from COVID-19 than the H1N1 swine flu.

timothyu said:

So you are saying that nature has outdone itself and put man's gene manipulation of viruses to shame. .

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Nope, quite the contrary, the coronavirus has been bio-engineered. There were no bat caves within hundreds of miles from the Wuhan lab. As day by day passes, it looks less like a conspiracy theory. Man has the great capability to cause much more destruction and alteration to nature than nature itself. Think of all the nuclear weapons that mankind has and have a slight imagination of what would happen to the Earth's atmosphere if all those weapons were used in a nuclear war?