Originally posted by Pleiadian Recon
Aids was not very successful.
The perfect Pandemic works like this:
1) It must be airborne (pass readily from Human to Human)
2) Those infected must not show symptoms during the contageous incubation period (to enable many more to become infected by the carrier)
3) The period from contracting the disease to death must be fairly rapid for maximum effect (14 days would be ideal)
4) The kill ratio must be in the realms of 90% of those infected
Enjoy today!
I absolutely agree. Three nasty little viruses spring to mind and, between them, they have killed more human beings than those killed in the World Wars - Parts I and II. Bubonic, Pneumonic and Septicemic were their names and the ‘Black Death’ was their game.
The Black Death started life, somewhere ‘in the East’ – most probably Asia Minor but, history tells us that by 1347, the plague had reached the borders of the Black Sea and, from there by 1348, had reached Italy.
From Italy in 1348, the Black Death swept across the Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe. By 1349, the plague had reached Spain, Portugal, England and Ireland and eventually Scandinavia. Four years later, it had rampaged through northern Europe to reach Russia.
By the time the plague had played itself out, not a single country anywhere in the world that had escaped its effects. In Europe alone, the plague had accounted for between 25 to 50% of the population.
Although the Bubonic Plague was the most common plague type associated with the Black Death – victims had roughly a week to live if the tell-tale tumours appeared, the most virulent strain was the Pneumonic Plague.
Pneumonic Plague was ‘airborne’, somebody sneezing over you or coughing in your presence usually signalled your death. It was fast, people usually died within 2 days at most.
Septicemic plague attacked the victim’s blood supply and was observed to be more virulent in the elderly and caused a rapid onset of symptoms. Victimes usually died within a day.
To date, plague or ‘yersinia pestis’ has killed close to 600 million people worldwide. In the last five years, there were 12,998 cases of plague reported to the World Health Organisation with most cases coming from the African continent. (Zimbabwe, Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda) Myanmar, India, Vietnam, China (Asia) Peru, (South America) and even the USA (10 cases)
HOWEVER- killing millions of people is inhumane,and this notion reflects the very
worst side of human nature.It is devoid of any spiritual considerations or implications. There is no compassion involved this concept. We should
figure out for ourselves how to find more balance with our environment.We may have already started the process of thinning our numbers with global
warming. I think if it gets too out of hand, Ma Nature will have a remedy. ( Or an astroid, or an alien colonization, or a Gamma ray burst...
).
I've been a vegetarian for 21
years to help keep my impact on the environment as small as I can keep it. The remaining question is, what will WE do NOW to help keep these problems
in check? The solutions start with US. 
I'll be reading more on this from now on. It never occured to me to look at what is happening to the rest of the
planets.
