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Has anyone read or seen any news stories on initiatives, global forums, directives to start to put in the measures and protocols to stop the next pandemic from happening?
UN, WHO or EU led?
COVID has, to be frank, been so damaging to the world community but it’s mortality rate is really low. The South African mutation is concerning on its potential effect on the vaccines, but these can be modified, the background virus remains mild in terms of symptoms in the majority of cases.
Shouldn’t we be demanding from our leaders (ignore Trump idiocy) a clear strategy and measures to stop the next pandemic, which is inevitable, and could be a form that is far more dangerous.
Positive engagement and pressure on China to ban or reform wet markets, massively ramped pub testing of potential viruses in the wild, review of risk factors and mitigations to prevent transmission.
Just haven’t seen anything on looking beyond COVID? Perhaps because we just can’t at present.
Looks like a Marcus Evans strategic plan currently.
I think Covid has shown that even with planning(UK had a pandemic style test run a few years back i think) without strong, decisive leadership, you always lose. My hope is that we will learn lessons and we will be quicker to act if and when it does happen again. International travel for one, has to be better managed or stopped completely. The stories coming out of Heathrow at the minute, where they don't do any checks apart from a paper form, are laughable and we are shooting ourselves in the foot.
Stopping the next pandemic on 09:51 - Jan 5 by NthQldITFC
Take the pressure off the natural world. Reduce the human population. Nice little side-effect; will help fight climate change too.
Yes - my post was around the next pandemic... but the inevitable biodiversity collapse and climate change consequence are equally important factors for a global coordinated* response.
Certainly, and bizarrely the massive reduction in transport has already had a positive impact on CO2 emissions, and no doubt taken the pressure off the natural world.
*you can see countries like Korea, Skando nations, Germany having the foresight and strategies... bring in the populists like Trump, less so
We had response measure, organisational structures and stockpiles of equipment in place didn't we, but they were sacrificed on the altar of austerity (here) and inept populist governments (here and in the US). It's been a big issue on the international stage, but there's only so much advise national governments are prepared to listen to.
A reason given for South East Asia’s relative success in handling Covid is that they had already gone through similar with SARS and understood how a national response works - politically, socially and economically.
That may also be down to a different spread and impact that seems to skew cases even across Europe but there’s probably a lot to that. We seem to have not only been underprepared in the West, but we’ve also been making up the complicated business of managing all the different aspects of the response as we’ve been going on. Nowhere more so than in the UK it seems but you’d like to hope that certain, undeniable lessons are being learnt.
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Stopping the next pandemic on 13:03 - Jan 5 with 395 views
Stopping the next pandemic on 10:57 - Jan 5 by Swansea_Blue
We had response measure, organisational structures and stockpiles of equipment in place didn't we, but they were sacrificed on the altar of austerity (here) and inept populist governments (here and in the US). It's been a big issue on the international stage, but there's only so much advise national governments are prepared to listen to.
I think my point was less about the response to once a disease is in the world populus.... and as you and Darth point out massive variations by country on this. With SE Asia more prepared through years of SARS bird flu, and also the management of very dense populations in the likes of Singapore, HK and Korea. UK could have improved, US will be yet another Trump scandal in his dismantling of Obama era department and protocols.
I think my point is - where are the news stories on a global, coordinated, effort to ensure another form of disease does not cross into the population. Fecked up climate change in part, ecological loss is out of control (see fishing, amazon).... surely we're going to see some action?
Stop all defence spending (you know what I mean) and channel it all into a global ecology/health project.... global defence spending $1,9 trillion in 2019
Its estimated that CV-19 cost the world economy $3.4 trillion in 2019.... albeit there is a weird dichotomy where every $ spent by the world economy is actually costing a factor more in ecological referred cost!!
Anyhow, I do hope to see something like the Paris Climate agreement, but on steroids and with teeth, for future pandemic prevention.... A STRATEGY.... we've seen how our beloved Ipswich have fared without a clear/crisp/SMART strategy and plan....we wouldn;t wish that one world health
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