Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold
The tell-tale links below will sensitize you to the truth that if the "aircraft pilots" had done their job well, we would not be in the current precarious situation in the first place. Nor would we be staring at a future that is shrouded in uncertainty, danger and perpetual threat. All the more reason why the current flawed system needs not only an urgent review and a critique but an overhaul and replacement with a better alternative.
Bill Gates on: Possible pandemic outbreak (March 2015) | Mosquitoes, malaria and education (February 2009) |
Giving away wealth (March 2014) | Next epidemic is coming (April 2018) | Healthcare predictions (October 2019) |
Simulation of pandemic (May 2018) | Non-stop warnings (2010-2020) |
Dr. Larry Brilliant's TED Talk in April 2009 | Sky News report on pathogen cafeterias
Virus detection network | It's not bats that have caused COVID
Some major epidemic-/pandemic-themed books or media content published in the run-up to COVID-19, warning everyone what's coming our way. Yet, nothing was done to prevent the killer pandemic:
1926: Paul de Kruif’s masterpiece “Microbe Hunters” | 1994: Laurie Garett's “The Coming Plague” | 2004: Jaap Goudsmit’s “Viral Fitness” | 2012: David Quammen’s “Spillover” | 2014: Sonia Shah's "Pandemic" | The New York Times’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reports from the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Africa
But biotech startups with suspect funding sources are now in the race for vaccines, hoping to earn trillions of dollars in sales revenue.
Various other TED Talks on: Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu | Humanity vs. Ebola | The dangerous evolution of HIV |
How social networks predict epidemics | What vaccinating bats can teach us about pandemics | How we'll fight the next deadly virus |
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over | The power of herd immunity | We need to turn our response to crisis inside out |
Ethical riddles in HIV research | Re-engineering mosquitoes to fight disease | HIV and Flu - the vaccine strategy |
How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity | The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late | The secret of the bat genome | How do viruses jump from animals to humans? | The jungle search for viruses | A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases |
The WHO's warning on Disease X (March 2018)
"These diseases pose major public health risks, and further research and development is needed, including surveillance and diagnostics", said the WHO in a statement. "Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease... It may seem strange to be adding an ‘X’ but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests...We want to see ‘plug and play’ platforms developed which will work for any, or a wide number of diseases; systems that will allow us to create countermeasures at speed."
Experts warn world ‘grossly unprepared’ for future pandemics (Sept 2019)
Pandemic: How to prevent an Outbreak - Netflix docu-series
Previous experiences starting from 1918-19 "Spanish flu", followed by modern-age scourges like AIDS, SARS, MERS, Swine flu, Ebola, Zika, etc.
Non-fiction (books) with pandemic/epidemic theme
Fiction (books) with pandemic/epidemic theme
Movies on the theme of pandemic / epidemic
Outbreak | Contagion | Pandemic | World War Z | Virus | The Invasion | Flu | Carriers | Patient Zero | Kill Mode | 28 Days Later | 28 Weeks Later |
Research papers, science journal articles
Risks, Impacts | Mortality | Social evolution | Economic Effects | Pandemic Spread (BBC app) | Preparing for pandemic
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