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Scientists and medical researchers have for years have differed over the exact definition of a pandemic (is it a pandemic, or an epidemic), but one thing everyone agrees on is that the word describes the widespread occurrence of disease, in excess of what might normally be expected in a geographical region.
Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: carewemust
So culling the herd?
Makes sense
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: BrianFlanders
I think its much worse in china than they are admitting.
My wife has a friend teaching there and she is relaying some scary happenings.
originally posted by: Sabrechucker
If it was Adam and Steve imagine where the population would be...
Sorry folks I couldn't resist.
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
There are 7 billion people. Less than 3,000 people die worldwide (many of them who were probably already in poor health and could have died of something else in the near future anyway) and people are already acting like it's wiping us out.
Could Pandemics be one of Nature's methods for keeping the Earth from becoming too crowded?
originally posted by: carewemust
February 25, 2020
According to www.prb.org... approximately 109 Billion people have lived on Earth since Adam and Eve got the ball rolling.
Imagine if all those human beings had lived a full life-span, consuming resources and having children along the way.
Could Pandemics be one of Nature's methods for keeping the Earth from becoming too crowded?
Here's an excerpt from an article that lists the top recorded pandemics over the past 2,000 years.
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Scientists and medical researchers have for years have differed over the exact definition of a pandemic (is it a pandemic, or an epidemic), but one thing everyone agrees on is that the word describes the widespread occurrence of disease, in excess of what might normally be expected in a geographical region.
Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people.
How many people would be on the Earth by now if there were no Pandemics?
Would humankind have exhausted all the planet's resources, making ourselves extinct by now?
Perhaps even the violent side of our nature is by design? The hundreds of millions of people killed in wars, and other human-on-human violence, has also kept population growth dampened.
Un-Natural death isn't pleasant to think about, but God (aka "Nature") may have designed the Master Plan in a way that keeps humankind alive, until we're advanced enough to begin populating other worlds.
-CareWeMust
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
There are 7 billion people. Less than 3,000 people die worldwide (many of them who were probably already in poor health and could have died of something else in the near future anyway) and people are already acting like it's wiping us out.
originally posted by: VeeTNA
a reply to: carewemust
Could Pandemics be one of Nature's methods for keeping the Earth from becoming too crowded?
That is EXACTLY what it is.
Humans are an infection on this planet