Before discussing the potential risk of a pandemic and the end of a pandemic, let’s first understand what a pandemic is.
A pandemic is an epidemic (a disease that is spreading rapidly) to a whole region or even worldwide. Sometimes, it also includes rich and poor regions. A pandemic this broadly banded can be difficult to contain.
Two main factors promote the end of pandemics: globalization and the development of vaccines. The growing interconnectedness around the world led to globalization and created new connections between those who are unfamiliar with one another, opening up more possibilities for infections to spread among populations at local and regional levels. This in turn will lead to more people with access to healthcare recognizing diseases that once had gone unnoticed resulting in stimulating preventive care at an earlier
The question of if pandemic threats will eventually be eradicated or not may defer from person to person but even scientists and experts in this field have come up with different conclusions for the same questions. However, whenever it so happens that a pandemic stops, the virus could just resurface again.
There is much debate surrounding two major factors: whether or not we should invest in stockpiling drugs to prepare for a pandemic and whether or not this can be used as an interference tactic. While one group argues that stockpiling drugs only runs us into financial risks by creating ever-increasing monetary demand without end, another contends that if these types of preparations will increase human vigilance and buy time to make incremental improvements on the medical treatment of possibility pandemics then our resources may not be wasted for naught.
The impending doom of pandemic is speculated to be around the corner. Research data suggests that there be a long period of low pandemics shortly after this latest outbreak which has killed more than 11,000 people over the past three months. However, despite its reoccurring outbreaks, it has claimed 5% of all deaths from now until 2020 and carries significant political clout in achieving extreme transformations. By 2100, when lives are taken by disease outstrip deaths caused by war, climate change, or hunger – pandemics will still topple our civilization every few decades.
The end of pandemics is a topic that has been discussed for the last few decades. The idea of a pandemic is not new and it has been in existence since the time of the Black Death in Europe. The idea of an end to pandemics is not new either and has been around since the end of World War II.
The concept, however, has gained more traction over recent years due to advances in medical technology and improvements in public health systems. One such example is how HIV/AIDS was able to be brought under control by using antiretroviral drugs which enabled people with HIV to live longer lives, thus reducing transmission rates.
The end of a pandemic is not a future that we should be looking forward to.
This is because pandemic viruses are the most deadly and common type of virus. They are also hard to predict and contain. With the coming of AI in medical research, we may have a chance in fighting these pandemics.
There have been mistakes made in predicting the end of a pandemic. Failing to recognize that these new viruses are acting differently and are harder to combat. What if they’re unavoidable?
What if no one can stop the nastiest viruses? Ever since our world has been enclosed, humanity has relied on trade and travel to unravel virus patterns, find new outbreaks or vaccines & treatments…humanity is at risk when we lose it we cannot go back down the same hole there will be some way out of this.
Humanity is finally inventing ways to prevent pandemics: developing vaccines and checking the ecosystem, thereby reducing the chance of a pandemic because the virus will not have too many hosts to jump to doom and gloom, panic, fear
There has been widespread agreement that the world is going through a third wave of pandemics.
Modern society has come much closer to defeating epidemics, like the Spanish flu that killed over 50 million people. However, it is still capable of doing much more good with all the improvements we have seen in hygiene and medicine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) initially focused on infectious diseases but now has a new outlook that looks not just at disease patterns but also factors like climate change or conflicts.
Pandemics may be fatal but they could also be an opportunity for some countries to emerge as global superpowers.
