pandemic Archives

How Low Is The SARS-CoV-2 Mortality Rate?

13 September 2021

We All Grew Up With Coronaviruses, As Did All Our Ancestors. To understand the relevance of mortality rate, you have to appreciate that coronaviruses first became pathogenic to humans in the range 12,000 – 10,000 years ago, as a consequence of the first interaction between humans and livestock that occurred in the early Holocene. Mankind […]

If enough people across international boundaries fart then you can officially call it a ‘pandemic’.

31 August 2020

The standard definition of a pandemic as applied by the World Health Organisation (the psychological warfare wing of the People’s Republic of China) is this: “An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.” No mention of severity or any pathogen-specific factors. A […]