Almost every Viral disease is a disease of love then.

I'd be more afraid of a rabies and ebola hybrid, not only would the symptoms of rabies spread it more if this hybrid virus killed people slower the 28 days virus would be a reality

It will evolve just as it always has. People will spread misinformation as they always have. Anti-vaxxers will fuel the flames as they do now and while a mutated ebola that is more easily transmitted would likely be less intense than its current form the body count will be huge. Just like COVID, the more times it gets to replicate itself in a human host the more variants we will get and you will see people dying simply for being to stupid to listen to doctors and instead listening to ignorant clergy and power-hungry politicians who don't care how many people they hurt. Its just a matter of time before the next iteration of this virus goes global.

the hot zone is a great read about ebola :)

The one sliver lining is that because of its mortality and severe symptoms, most patients are incapacitated before being able to spread it too much. This makes contact tracing easier since you can very case much quicker without second guessing If you have it or a regular flu (not to mention the asymptotic with Covid). However a aerial or weaponized variant would be terrifying as containment and the breakdown of medical system and society would be cause a lot of unnecessary death.

​@@nickwarner8158 I was naive enough to think that COVID19 would unite the country, and oh boy was I wrong. And the whole "it has a 99% survival rate what's the big deal??" is absurd. 1% of 330million is 3.3 million deaths, and that's not even counting the 1000s of people who would die from something else as a result of the hospitals being overwhelmed. So amazing that people don't understand that a "99% survival rate" is actually not that great. We are doomed.

@B Blanchard I wasn't trying to be negative, Simon and his crew are incredible. However, I actually live in Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo. It took 2 years to contain this outbreak due to war. A Congolese doctor created the vaccines and there is very little spoken about him and his incredible work here. We currently have more cases just North of Goma, so this does not ever go away for us.

Who??

@@atsleyrick7731 the person deleted their comment

This isn't a surprise. Covid panic was more important to media and government.

@@michellesmith7728 Never knew this, must read up more on it, sounds like something that definitely needs recognition

and he even starts new channels and podcasts like every few months. just how much free time does he have left, considering he has a family and still does this... pure efficiancy

I get the impression from a video or two where he argues about the script that he just reads it rather than writing it. Wouldn't take long to do.

@@Chris-jw8vm Yes, he doesn't research or write any of his scripts or edit the videos. All of that is outsourced. He hasn't made a secret of the fact that he just presents them. I think he got started in KZfaq after doing either some audiobook narration or a small bit of voice acting.

What's more terrifying is that it has shown the ability to resist antibiotics in Madagascar, if we don't work on developing better antibiotics, and keeping people from getting them for things like a damn cold, the plague could fully be a threat again

that book gave me nightmares YOU DONT WANT EBOLA TO GET LOOSE specially the part where the guys on the plane and he super sick and his symptoms get explained and then he gets into the terminal and starts bleeding from early orathis and vomiting

Worse diseases are possible unfortunately. African swine fever in pigs combines ebola levels of lethality with high infectiousness and extremely high persistence in the environment (months). Prion diseases (CWD) in cervids are 100% deadly, survive through an autoclave, survive in the environment for years; really horrible way to die and show now symptoms until late in the disease. It's not a virus, just a misfolded protein and an incredibly stable one that is contagious.

Same. Found it as a Kindle suggestion a few years ago. Hell of a read and well worth the (iirc) well under a fiver it cost.

@@craigmiddlemiss6917- it’s ‘orifice.’ Lol

He doesn't plug in any of the videos on this channel. Into The Shadows just has awesome, generally thought-provoking endings 😁

Maybe he's not feeling well??!! 😯

@@adelelouise Into The Shadows videos don't include plugs or self-promotion.

@@quackaddict2203 yeah it’s too dark. I don’t know how he could possibly plug something at the end of these videos and still have a soul

@@quackaddict2203 jj

Thank you!

Im ok with that

There's been community spread for some time. 😆

Gimme the blaze variant

I, for one, welcome our new KZfaq overlord

You mean Whistler's Infotainment and Toiletry Emporium, F/K/A KZfaq?

Society is what we call it but its one of those ironic names.

@@CashelOConnolly Yeah, it's the greatest killer in Botswana last time I checked, not sure if the statistics still hold true, since there's lots of "condomise" campaigns and the gov provides free ARVs to positive people

@@JatPhenshllem Botswana is experiencing one of the most severe HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. The national HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15 to 49 is 24.8 percent, which is the third highest in the world, behind Lesotho and Eswatini.HIV/AIDS threatens the many developmental gains Botswana has achieved since its independence in 1966, including economic growth, political stability, a rise in life expectancy, and the establishment of functioning public educational and health care systems. The prevalence and impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana is notoriously hard to estimate. For example, it was in 2006 calculated that high HIV infection rates should cause slight annual population decline. However the 2011 census showed robust population growth averaging 1.9% per year since the previous census in 2001.

@@CashelOConnolly Right, you know the statistics better than me, ignore my previous comment HIV/AIDS had the power to f*ck up Botswana, and still does.

Same thing happened to me, I was 12 and it terrified the shit out of me

You little wussies. Probably freak out at the slightest mention of something bad.

@@csn6234 Damn dude, who hurt you?

That fear sounds unhealthy , go see a doctor

😂😂😂😂😂

No _[BRAAYYN]_ Blaze with Dickhead?

AM I RIGHT PETER!!!

but who gets to say something is misinformation? like the Covid lab leak which turned out to be true, cover ups gets people killed as well.

@@testaccount4191 Source. Provide one scientific-oriented, data based source. Not an opinion or "there's lots".

@@testaccount4191 There are plenty of fact checking sites. That's a good start.

Boring

Like the Motaba virus from ‘Outbreak.’ 😳

For me it was Bill Nye

That's what I do.

yup and when 'people' were calling for quarantine it was deemed 'racist'. now look at us

It was one man in Dallas that brought it back here from Nigeria I believe. He is the only one thatgot sick here, other than the 2 nurses that initially took care of him without the appropriate PPE. Both of them recovered. He didn't spread it to anyone else, not even the paramedics that took him to the hospital. My dad was the Captain at the fire station that transported him.

We came REALLY close to having our first pandemic in 100 years in 2014 instead of 2020, isn't that wild

@@Ayem427 Thankfully, Ebola was way less catchy. That flight was a wake up call for me. When COVID came around I started to refuse to fly. I've got a family who's way more vulnerable than me.

Wow. What was that like? Were you scared? (Obviously you were im guessing, I think what I'm asking is were you paralysed with fear? I think I would be) Are you ok? Did you get sick?

@@asmith181 we were working at a clinic, we were very careful and to be honest I did not have time to be scared. You just have to help people, take care of them and their loved ones and make sure you do not touch anyone without your gloves on, you have your own cups and bottle / cutlery :)

Sometimes I close my eyes and randomly subscribe to a channel just to find that it's hosted by Simon.

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Check timing vs the movie: Outbreak ******* Oops that was the remake Dustin Hoffman was in the original. Can't recall the name.

The covid shot isn’t a vaccine so…..

Funnily enough most of that is covered in a Megaprojects video on how we eradicated smallpox. Fascinating video.

I was a child and among the early recipient of those early vaccines. The excitement around the polio Vax was felt, since children were living in Iron lungs, I went to school with kids with limps from the infantile polio version. My grandparents came with my mum and I to get my smallpox shot. They had lived in England and feared smallpox. So again there was relief to see children and others protected from diseases that did harm and killed people. It wasn't theoretical back then it was relief. My family was quarantined with big red signs on our house for weeks because one of my sisters caught scarlet fever. No hospital would take her for fear of spread. Public health came by daily to inspect my mother's disinfection of dishes routines etc., and the family doc geared up and saw my sister in the dining room/sick room daily. Neighbour's left food outside and knocked. She survived, but we didn't sue anyone for making it public we were quarantined...it was our duty to not spread it. The early 60s a whole different, but kinder world.

@@ay8967 Yes it is, stop lying.

@@BlueCyann well, it is now they changed the definition of vaccine. It's a totally different technology than anything that's ever been used on humans before.

Really depends on where you are. 50% is the average, but the survival rate for those who came back to developed nations was 100%, while those in some of the poorer countries was closer 20%.

Lots of Ebola stains. The death rate varies between strains. If I remember correctly the Zaire strain was the most deadly, something like 80% fatality rate with that one.

@@williambrandondavis6897 in early outbreaks Zaire got up to 90% but nowadays it’s closer to 50 and 60% in more recent outbreaks.

Tens of millions of deaths easily

It's not so much luck as logic. A virus that's extremely deadly will kill or incapacitate the host before they can move around spreading the virus in public. What you'll get is almost always a virus that's extremely contagious and spreads widely because it doesn't make you sick enough to stay at home (influenza, covid) or one that kills a large proportion of those infected but doesn't spread as easily. (ebola, rabies) Viruses tend to mutate towards the former as well. A dead host is not good for the virus, the virus needs the host alive to spread to the next. The less deadly the virus is, the more hosts it will spread to, the more successful it is and the more rapidly it will change and mutate. That's why new covid variants pop up every month, it's spreading so rapidly it's mutating constantly in every direction turning into different strains.

Unfortunately, it would require the idiots who spread misinformation about the current Rona issue to knock it off. We know the likelihood of that happening, though.

Suspect the problem is at your end. Simon's videos are on the same volume level as any other YT channel

My vo!one also has to be up full

@@andrevanderwalt2515 I agree… my volume is less than 50% and I just turned it DOWN because Simon’s harder consonants we’re still too loud.

Yeah, his newest channel

I agree

made me laugh out loud

It is not silly at all. The world might end anytime. A gamma-ray burst might evaporate us before you finnish reading this comment. There might be a peanut-sized black-hole with a mass of our Sun travelling towards our planet right now. The chance we will go extinct by 2100 is quite high. According to scientists, somewhere between 8 to 20%. The biggest threat is the AI. 30% risk of global catastrophe caused by AI by year 2029. 20% risk of extinction caused by AI by 2100.

Vektor holds the Russian sample of smallpox.

He knows what he did

"More coffee, less Ebola" is a solid morning affirmation. 😷

@@purcascade more Elba too!

Like Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman, though in that movie a serum was derived from the monkey that contained the virus.

On a slightly more up note, delve into the Maori vrs British colonials - the only time a colonial government actually acted on and fully obeyed a treaty

Uhh no.

Not everything is about the US.

It was SARS-Cov-2 or basically SARS 2 but the resulting disease was a better fit for sound bite news media. Then the name became political in certain groups wanting to call it various names.

And the woman who caught it was a nurse tending to said patient.

Two nurses that initially took care of him became ill with ebola, they didn't have the proper PPE, and they incorrectly used the PPE they did have in an effort to provide more protection, which actually worked against them in hindsight. They both survived. No one else caught it from him, but many many people, had to quarantine for 30 days because it has such a long incubation period.

But when compared to the number of infections, covid doesn't come close to having the mortality rate that ebola does. You have to look at it from a relative perspective, covid is far less deadly than ebola

@@174ique3 How about you getting immune first. Lets see if you survive.