Rick rolled!

Bat, humbug!

I'm missing something here... I do love George C. Scott's rendition of Scrooge, but where do the bats come in?

V.

My mistake, wrong link.

It's been fixed.

Bunners

We certainly would have dodged a massive bullet (more than a few of them) had we never been conditioned to desire as food the flesh and byproducts of other animals.

Nah I think a pandemic was inevitable, like dry tinder on a system that can't handle it. Still, I was laughing to myself when the supply of meat broke down and alternatives started doing better.

Only inevitable if you allow the pieces to fall into place. Is it really any surprise that the meat and dairy industries broke down during the Pandemic?

They were breeding billions of beings into the world, just used them and had them living packed close together and standing in their own excrement, with injuries and infections on a common basis - very much the perfect breeding ground for any virus.

It has been proven time and time again in history. The Spanish flu first cropped up on a Kansas poultry farm for one, a similar story with the emergence of Mad Cow Disease in the UK, and the first strains of Swine Flu back in '09 (a mutated form of which was found in China recently.)

That's just a couple examples. They almost always lead to the paradoxical scenario where ranchers will shed tears at having to kill animals they were going to kill anyway; and somehow, we're expected to feel sorry for them rather than their victims. Its Just asking for a song on the world's smallest violin.

Point is, as tempting as it may be to look at this all through a nihilistic lens, truth is that many of these viruses and diseases tend to be at least somewhat preventable from the start.

The issue is that most of them come from practices we've allowed to become so entrenched that those who try to warn the powers that be (such as scientists, doctors, even nutritionists) find their words falling on deaf ears. Indeed, we were warned of a pandemic like COVID-19 as early as 2008, and here we are in 2020.