Of all the things that are out there, what could cause in excess in a single year of 10 million deaths? Now clearly a big war could, and a pandemic, natural or created by bioterror. A nature pandemic, the last gigantic one was a hundred years ago.
We are healthier today but the speed of travel, and therefore the speed of global spread, that works against us. But in some ways the bioterror thing scares me the most. All it takes is one small terrorism group, those groups have used things like anthrax that are non human to human transmissible.
And as yet, thank goodness, they have never gotten, been able to build, or get their hands on a nuclear weapon. Are you nervous about your own life and what could happen? - No.
This thing will get a lot of countries before it gets the U. S. , but even the U.
S. has to think about its global health security. It's a government thing to decide OK, this is a problem, how do you move resources around, how do you allocate the, the scarce supplies.
When an epidemic hits, governments, having been prepared in advance and going through simulations, that will help them make the decisions that are only in their hands.
