Thread: Measles

Very interesting discussion.

When we talk, "climate change", very few people provide the full definition, which is, "man-made climate change".

Take a look at India, China, Pakistan, where we have a population bomb, basically a 3rd of the world's population crammed together - approx 3.5 BILLION PEOPLE. Population of the USA and Canada combined is approx 370 million, we'd barely make two big cities there.

Nature is an efficient housekeeper, and like the Black Plague swept over a third of the population of Europe off the map, it's just a matter of time before something lands in one of these densely packed countries and decimates the population.

As BobH mentioned, with the ability to travel from one side of the globe to the next, we can only hope that vaccinations, and research is kept up when some horror disease lands.

I remember the Swine Flu, my first girlfriend had it and survived, and the more people that don't get vaccinated, the more probability these diseases have a chance to mutate and develop into something far more lethal, which we know has already occured.

I'm in the camp that if you aren't vaccinated, which is fine, your choice, but the consequences are you get homeschooled, and you basically should be quarantined in your own house of community. Your freedom of choice ends at the tip of other people's noses - your choice doesn't mean my consequence.

As for my man-made climate change remark, as long as the population continues to rise exponentially in these countries and the poverty associated with it, the chances for a lethal brew-up increase dramatically, drop that into one of these over-populated, densely packed countries, and the carnage will be unparalleled.

With the rich in these countries ensuing rush to escape, how many hours till it lands here?