Don't Panic, It's Not Quite The News. [a random post]

Don't Panic, It's Not Quite The News.

Minor outbreaks of new viruses have been common in recent years. Almost all have been off the mainstream news, almost utterly unworthy of note. Recent new viruses in places like China, or new outbreaks of old viruses, seem to be nothing of a vast amount of note. The Coronavirus issue is the only important outbreak at this time. The news are covering minor numbers of 17 new COVID cases, a small number of plague cases, a pig virus, etc. In China. Largely, this isn't very newsworthy. Just as a few other minor virus news stories in America have been filler and fear that sells. Note that the areas involved are often vast and the human cost is minor and because viruses are viral(trending) news every news website tries to capitalise on a new angle or the latest scoop.

The Coronavirus is obviously the news worth subject. That said, young Jewish baby boys injured from traditional circumcision method related infections, herpes causing brain injury for example, in cities like New York, is a continuous cost in human suffering. Yet, that isn't a COVID related subject matter. Honour killing in Pakistan kill thousands of young women and girls every year, but that isn't worth stating right now?? Equally, concentration camps in China aren't as important as a few more coronavirus cases in the same nation?? Methinks that many of our great news providers are busy being whores for attention, which at least makes the BBC cover a story just because everyone else has published an article on the subject. Such as Trump-related news, it is often a matter of a slight blunder, a dumb point or question, then the reaction causes the news to linger and even flourish. Thus, the news story derived from the old causes the need for the mainstream to march over old ground.

News is news-worthy because news sources have stated a thing as the news, the New Story. A great amount of the olds seems to be sold as news, or a new angle on an old story. Meanwhile, we see next to nothing on many other stories. And those stories rarely trend on twitter or are seen on the news search headlines on google or bing. I do sometimes feel that the art of news reporting is past its prime and the common news method is steeped in mediocracy and repetition between news services. Leaving often very little room for intellectualism, as something very close to copy-and-paste in lieu of journalist ability. Yet, at least regarding the present crisis of Corona, we can understand com0pletely why we might see a great amount of repetition.

World peace because an epidemic, and I doubt that'll be coronavirus(2020).

World peace could come about because of an epidemic, but I doubt that'll be this coronavirus. As you might know, coronavirus is a bit of a blanket term for a series of similar viruses. SARS and a few others you may have heard of are in the same group or family of viruses. The recent coronavirus is a variation upon a theme, in the present cases, we see the transition from bats and possibly other mammals to humans. The overall potential of coronavirus is high, even as deaths are low. As it is an adaptive virus that can mutate and become far more dangerous. We have had various similar viruses over recent years, they all took a small toll. And it might be that to unite powers of the world under a single alliance that we might have to see a disastrous viral outbreak on the scale of 1918 influenza(Spanish flu). Naturally, such types of outbreaks are rare, and the Spanish flu is considered the worst outbreak in human history. Although, one must admit that more common viruses kill many thousands per year and lead to greater figures over the course of decades. Vast numbers of people are killed by regular viruses, seasonal influenza has caused a vast death toll. Other conditions cause great devastation, diarrhoea is commonly an infection of the intestines leading to watery bowel movements and resulting dehydration, caused by viruses, bacteria infection or parasites. Resulting in millions of deaths. I have to ask myself on the matter of outbreaks if there would be serious cooperation between nations on a scale never seen before if we don't see a serious threat to our civilisation as we know it. What are we willing to do or blunder through over this new wave of coronavirus does not present the best case if even great threats should endanger mankind. With other threats to human health, often in the poorest parts of the world, we do far less than we could, even as the death toll is far greater than corona. So I'm left to ponder whether or not we would only unite too late, if and when a true danger appears. It seems likely to me, that we would unite if a new 1918 flu enters the stage of human events. And, I do not, at this time think we're going to see that occur any time soon.