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2020-02-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

What's the connection between climate change and infectious diseases?

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-02 02:58|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Well, there were never any infectious diseases or plagues before global warming, right? /sarcasm

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-02-02 05:22|| 2020-02-02 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 IMHO — ignoring your ancestral pain & suffering by switching to a diet you are not genetically built for is setting us up for infectious diseases. For example: people infected with ecoli are often vegan or vegetarian.

We know from history things to avoid eating. I am sure bats were added to the list after a human crawled into a cave to light a fire and discuss climate change.

Posted by Airandee 2020-02-02 07:49|| 2020-02-02 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Connection? Money in both?

Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-02 08:12|| 2020-02-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Both promised to be "fixed" by governments who'll probably make things worse for their populations and enrich some insiders...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-02 08:22|| 2020-02-02 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Umm, I've always been taught that the plague was maded much worse cause the cold climate forced people and animals to live in closer proximity. YMMV

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-02 09:01|| 2020-02-02 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 #2 We know from history things to avoid eating.
William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples(1976) is a good book. Strangers coming into areas and hunting exotic creatures causing Plague outbursts.

Posted by magpie 2020-02-02 11:21|| 2020-02-02 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 The leading suspicion is an animal host...infected another animal that has more contact with humans.

Puppies. Ah'm betting puppies.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-02 11:23|| 2020-02-02 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Or nurses.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-02 11:24|| 2020-02-02 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 They both are always with us.

Posted by KBK 2020-02-02 11:29|| 2020-02-02 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Al Gore's crotch.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-02 14:07|| 2020-02-02 14:07|| Front Page Top

#11 I see problems with large festivals in the world in this time period. Carnival in Brazil and Mardi Gras in New Orleans come to mind along with say Granada's Easter Week stuff.

Posted by 3dc 2020-02-02 15:26|| 2020-02-02 15:26|| Front Page Top

#12 We just got home from the annual International Blues Competition in Memphis. All week there were pairs of police cars at each intersection with their uniformed police standing watch nearby. I imagine wolves move differently than us sheep.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-02 17:35|| 2020-02-02 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 The police would help with Sudden Jihad Syndrome, but not with the corona virus. PIMF!,

Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-02 18:05|| 2020-02-02 18:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Climate change and infectious diseases? One is psychosomatic and the other is viral or bacterial.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-02-02 18:13|| 2020-02-02 18:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Typically people do not eat animals that commonly get rabies (Bats, rats, and dogs). China ignores this rule.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-02-02 19:45|| 2020-02-02 19:45|| Front Page Top

#16 You can't leave until you sing the blues.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-02 20:17|| 2020-02-02 20:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Mmmmmmmmm, flying fox bush meat. Tastes like chicken.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-02 20:18|| 2020-02-02 20:18|| Front Page Top

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