Goop, I've already made black humour of the number of houses going up for sale and the savings in old age pensions. Sars mowed down the elderly [over age 60] in droves. I suppose H12N8 would do the same as older people are usually less able to cope with such challenges.
The way things are always seems so normal, but it's not really. All those insanely horrible things which have happened to other people in other places and times can happen to us too. In the eye of the storm, we just feel snug. We are going to get it again though! Sooner or later.
There's no law of nature which says 6 billion humans have a divine right to grow old gracefully and in comfort or in the manner to which we might have grown accustomed.
On the contrary, there is a law of nature which says when things get unbalanced and new things are tried, things will go wrong. The natural state of evolution is failure. 99.99999999999% of DNA has been killed off. Those of us alive today are the survivors of eons of carnage - we are the ends of an unbroken chain of DNA going back a billion years. Billions have been sacrificed in a vast DNA filtration process, to find the gems able to cope with life as it is [then we fill our amazing DNA with booze, baccy and mindless movies - no respect for a billion years of battle for survival].
So, the great experiment of life in the megalopolis, on mass transit, in crowded office buildings, in restaurants, with jumbo jets whizzing us around the world, stirring our DNA and spreading a vast array of viruses, is bound to have some failures as well as successes. Maybe very big failures. There's no law against it, other than applied intelligence, which we are able to attempt.
Fingers crossed.
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