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originally posted by: Misterlondon
Probably the same as swine flu, bird flu and mad cow disease...
What happened to those?
originally posted by: swanne
a reply to: Vroomfondel
So in short, you fear that the proposal (shipping to Asia and back from there) could be motivated by a rather sinister agenda, since it makes no sense financially.
In which case I feel your fear is not unfounded.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
I really wanted to put this in the NWO forum. I believe this is yet another step in the systematic reduction of the population. I find it very suspicious that within months of the discovery of this super-resistant bacteria that so many food producers in the US feel it is "financially preferable" to send food from the US to China to be processed, then shipped back to the US for sale. All that shipping is somehow preferable and financially more attractive to keeping it here in the US? I find that very hard to believe.
This is a disaster of truly epidemic proportions waiting to happen...
originally posted by: Vroomfondel This is a disaster of truly epidemic proportions waiting to happen...
originally posted by: rickymouse
Ahhh. Don't worry, just make friends with the bacteria if it enters your body, tell it to try to fit in with the other microbes and you can all live in harmony. I bet they would listen more than the leaders of many world governments do.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Even if there is a bacteria that is completely immune to all known antibiotics, it still couldn't kill off humanity. The fact is that all diseases have infection rates and no infection rate is 100% (because of evolution and genetic drift).
Also, keep in mind, the higher the infection rate, the harder it is to control as a weapon. It is too easy to infect your own people.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Even if there is a bacteria that is completely immune to all known antibiotics, it still couldn't kill off humanity. The fact is that all diseases have infection rates and no infection rate is 100% (because of evolution and genetic drift).
Also, keep in mind, the higher the infection rate, the harder it is to control as a weapon. It is too easy to infect your own people.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Vroomfondel
No infection has mutated enough to stay above the kill rate. The thing is that if you want a truly devestating disease. You need to balance incubation rate with how quickly it kills someone. If you are relying on mutations to keep this thing deadly, those mutations are surely going to screw up that balance. If the incubation rate drops to low then it will just hospitalize someone too fast for them to infect more people. If it kills people too quickly then even when hospitalized, there would be limited ways for it to infect someone treating that person because they'd die too quickly. Plus a fast incubation period alerts authorities to who is infected for quarantine that much easier.
Then despite all of this, no disease has a 100% infection rate. Even with mutations keeping it a step above antibiotics. So, unless the disease mutated intelligently (and there has been no disease to ever do this), it could never stay a step above our antibiotics forever.
Also you must consider that we are on the last round of viable antibiotics. There are no more. Every variation possible has been used, overused, and is becoming less and less likely to be effective. We already have numerous strains of bacteria that could kill us off quickly were it not for the last few variations of antibiotics that still work. The bugs are getting more resistant and there are no more variations to fall back on.