friend or foe?
fiend or friend?
part 1- Dystopian outcomnes - virus and infodemics
1. Did u know:
On February 10, 2018, Fortune reported that:
- influenza in the United States was killing up to 4,000 Americans a week,
- likely to far outstrip the rate of deaths in the 2009–2010 season.
It toted up throughout the 2017-2018 flu season to:
- an estimated 959,000 hospitalizations and 61,099 deaths.
.2. emergent outbreaks
Looking at contemporary outbreaks since the mid-20th century, Dr. Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist and the president of Eco Health Alliance , and colleagues found that:
- the rate of emergent diseases caused by pathogens new to humans has increased significantly with time, even when controlling for progress in diagnosis techniques and surveillance, which could make it only seem like diseases were on the rise.
- More than 300 new infectious diseases emerged between 1940 and 2004, the study found.
.3. How to fight hysterics infodemia
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic”,
WHO Director-General Tedros A. Ghebreyesus
at the Munich Security Conference on Feb 15 2020.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30461-X/fulltext
part 2 - People and migrants : mind bias and half-truths
- California has more immigrants than any other state. link
California is home to almost 11 million immigrants—about a quarter of the foreign-born population nationwide in the USA.
- In 2017, the most current year of data, 27% of California’s population was foreign born, more than double the percentage in the rest of the country.
- most (56%) of those arriving between 2010 and 2017 came from Asia; only 29% came from Latin America.
- Californians have positive views of immigrants.
Nearly three in four Californians (72%) believe immigrants are a benefit to the state because of their hard work and job skills, compared to nearly one in four (only 23%) who believe they are a burden.
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