Given the engineered collapse of USAID and the NIH in the USA, as well as their turning away from WHO support, what are the most likely future scenarios? Can the other developed nations mount a credible pandemic response without the resources of the USA?
I am especially interested in global perspectives because pathogens don’t need passports. How might this impact the global order?
I can’t speak for the political aspects.
CSIS has a interesting talk on the politics of global health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnErbYQ55kY
However, the global metabolic crisis is a huge risk factor for pandemics. People with compromised immune systems are far more likely to be affected by or disabled by global pandemics. In the USA something like 8% of adults have ideal metabolic health, that means 92% have a compromised immune system
So the field is ripe for harvest then. :(
I’m trying to prepare myself for things to get really bad really quickly. Pandemics are the Achilles heel of complex global societies that forget the great secret: we are all made of meat.
In the USA something like 8% of adults have ideal metabolic health, that means 92% have a compromised immune system
Do you have a (written) source for that? I want to see how they came up with the numbers. Should be interesting.
Metabolically healthy Americans… at 12%
My data shows 88% metabolically unhealthy as of 2016, so I’m guessing it hasn’t improved since then. But the exact numbers are not so important, the trend and prevalence
The more recent paper on this has it at 8% but I don’t have that link handy.
