tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5175536663570640331..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Fewer People, PleaseStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62643018532398416262017-11-05T03:17:09.760-08:002017-11-05T03:17:09.760-08:00Jack,
"Dense urban populations tend to be mor...Jack,<br />"Dense urban populations tend to be more disease resistant than rural or more isolated ones because exposure from childhood to chronic infections of most diseases leaves limited or in some cases complete immunity to survivors, e.g., measles, chicken pox, and other "childhood" diseases. This is true of even plague and smallpox. Evidence is from a variety of sources, including medical records of the Civil War, comparing disease rates suffered by troops raised from urban areas to those from rural areas."<br /><br />Old parish records of the "Black Death" in England seem to confirm this. Entire small hamlets, monasteries, and remote rural populations totally wiped out. The thing about urban populations is that they tend have a low level of sickness most of the time but tend to have low mortality rates (higher resistance built up from a lot of exposure)from exposure to the big nastys.<br />No one knows for sure why what we call now the "Black Death" had such a high rate of spread at that time, it was phenomenal.<br />Justinian's plague has little evidence beyond the anecdotal, but it had to be tremendous. There are stories of 10,000 death a day in Constantinople for a period of time, but nothing of rural impact.<br />We have a vastly improved health system today, but when it comes to these nasty critters we haven't progressed nearly as far in prevention and cure as we have in creation of them.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82398944975355679552017-11-03T20:44:23.180-07:002017-11-03T20:44:23.180-07:00Sam L. said... Yes, Ares, we ALL "know" ...Sam L. said... Yes, Ares, we ALL "know" that Republicans want everyone dead.<br /><br />Or being penny-wise, pound-foolish, although when it comes to prevention, when things turn out well, you never know what else could have happened. A good scientist lets every experiments run forward to the conclusion, so he had "I told you so" rights at the end when everyone is dead. At least the black plague created lots of unwanted bodies for anatomy lessons.<br />https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-the-black-death-advanced-medical-science-with-help-1718448184<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61729798707419920672017-11-03T18:39:15.690-07:002017-11-03T18:39:15.690-07:00Sam, I'd save you for last.Sam, I'd save you for last.Jack Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17873320680596889057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77878868767244402782017-11-03T17:55:31.675-07:002017-11-03T17:55:31.675-07:00Yes, Ares, we ALL "know" that Republican...Yes, Ares, we ALL "know" that Republicans want everyone dead.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68860456377636093252017-11-03T17:54:16.359-07:002017-11-03T17:54:16.359-07:00The royals are a disgrace. This is exhibit 2,378,3...The royals are a disgrace. This is exhibit 2,378,301. Can you imagine being a subject under nonsense like this? <br /><br />From a potential head of state?<br /><br />Ares’ contrariness aside, prince and princess are expecting their third white child. Horrors. Imagine if it’s male!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-24343253387969528392017-11-03T15:08:45.256-07:002017-11-03T15:08:45.256-07:00"Exponential urban growth is having a profoun..."Exponential urban growth is having a profound effect on global health. Because of international travel and migration, cities are becoming important hubs for the transmission of infectious diseases, as shown by recent pandemics."<br /><br />http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(10)70223-1/fulltexttrigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-1210816542578586782017-11-03T12:48:17.870-07:002017-11-03T12:48:17.870-07:00Dense urban populations tend to be more disease re...Dense urban populations tend to be more disease resistant than rural or more isolated ones because exposure from childhood to chronic infections of most diseases leaves limited or in some cases complete immunity to survivors, e.g., measles, chicken pox, and other "childhood" diseases. This is true of even plague and smallpox. Evidence is from a variety of sources, including medical records of the Civil War, comparing disease rates suffered by troops raised from urban areas to those from rural areas. <br /><br />Epidemics are most lethal when they emerge or re-emerge into "virgin" populations without natural immunities or without practical knowledge of dealing with infection. The disaster is, obviously, more notable in urban populations where the bodies start piling up. This was the case in the three global plague pandemics of the 6th, 14th and 19th centuries.Jack Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17873320680596889057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36640804114814726632017-11-03T10:42:17.171-07:002017-11-03T10:42:17.171-07:00The Titanic is sinking! Women and children over th...The Titanic is sinking! Women and children over the gunwales first, right? <br /><br />On the other hand, too many people bumping against each other means the spread of plague and other infectious diseases. So we should thin the human herd and move everybody into high-density urban hives. Stop the sprawl!trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81564053558008094182017-11-03T08:38:16.235-07:002017-11-03T08:38:16.235-07:00Charles -- whose most important job in life was to...Charles -- whose most important job in life was to breed future monarchs -- should set an example for everyone, borrow James Bond's Walther, and start the culling with his own vermin.Jack Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17873320680596889057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54101047979653433862017-11-03T07:46:36.741-07:002017-11-03T07:46:36.741-07:00As to Prince Charles overachieving worries, there&...As to Prince Charles overachieving worries, there's plenty of evidence we're heading in a bad direction, like this recent article about insects.<br />https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/oh-no/543390/ Insects Are In Serious TroubleAres Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82683203416275173272017-11-03T07:01:45.988-07:002017-11-03T07:01:45.988-07:00The population of Africa is 1.2 billion, and proje...The population of Africa is 1.2 billion, and projected to 2 billion by 2050, IF fertility rates can drop.<br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_population_(UN).svg<br /><br />It does look like walls are going to become even more popular in the coming decades, so when war, famine and pestilence makes life unbearable for the growing third world populations, we'll say "You shoulda used birth control" to explain our cold shoulder.<br /><br />I don't expect the well known bubonic plague is going to newly spread mass-death, but AIDS is still troubling. A total 15 million dead is a holocaust by some measures, but its clearly not lowering the birthrate. Life expectancy of 34 is still old enough to birth a new generation of HIV babies.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa<br />Although the continent is home to about 15.2 percent of the world's population, more than two-thirds of the total, some 35 million infected, were Africans, of whom 15 million have already died. ... Furthermore, the life expectancy in many parts of Africa is declining, largely as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with life-expectancy in some countries reaching as low as thirty-four years.<br /><br />If we want to imagine what ends our global economy, fear of infectious disease looks like a pretty good cause in the coming decades. AIDS is too slow, but something like a bird flu probably could slow our global population growth rates.<br /><br />And for developed nations like ours, at least the republicans are not yet defunding the CDC, or we can hope? Yet, someone's gotta pay for our promised tax cuts sooner or later.<br />http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/341933-opinion-6-devastating-effects-of-cutting-cdc-funding<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com