[conspire] "immunity" (COVID-19, ...) Re: Numbers racket

[paulz at ieee.org]

 Some people will always want pets. Others will be farmers.  

The book and National Geographic series "Guns, Germs, and Steel" suggested that because Europeans had lived close to various animals, they had developed immunity to various diseases.  When they spread out around the world they took germs that native peoples had not been exposed to and unintentionally killed off people making it easier to colonize.
Somewhere I read about the Pilgrims beyond the making of hats from black paper.  It is thought by some that Indians had been living near Plymouth Rock, but that group/tribe/family had been killed by some pestilence.  That made a nice vacant place for the pilgrims to settle. Things might have been very different if they couldn't find a vacancy. Yes they lost some people to disease.  They also had losses from starvation and other causes.  

    On Monday, May 4, 2020, 9:36:17 AM PDT, Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote:  
 
 

On Mon, May 4, 2020, 8:50 AM paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:

 zoonotic.  I had to look up the word:
from https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html


Zoonotic diseases are very common, both in the United States and around the world. Scientists estimate that more than 6 out of every 10 known infectious diseases in people can be spread from animals, and 3 out of every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals


So there isn't much of a "barrier" between animals and humans.


As long as some people in the world have close contact with live or undercooked exotic critters, no.



  
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