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With over a hundred confirmed covid cases just 2.5 years into the pandemic, the DPRK is truly one of the worst-equipped nations to respond to a pandemic.
yeah, like, lib ideological reasons for pretending North Korea has warzone-level healthcare aside, surely you'd factor in that it has some of the hardest borders on earth vs Yemen & Somalia effectively having no manned border, right? not a big fan of those silly little lines but in terms of pandemic preparedness it's pretty helpful to control who enters/leaves a country
Yeah but the dprk actually put people in mass grave and forced people to go to water slides
I just realized that that map has a green section that's not even used. and that's very funny to me
This Global Health Security Index group needs to get into contact with the CDC, I heard they're very good at making pandemic maps green
China should be green, but the person who made the map has some kind of colorblindness.
How is "prepared" measured, outside of "how :maybe-later-kiddo: feels about the place?"
I wonder what it would take for the US to fall all the way from #1 to #2.
kek, after the dumpster fire of the last 2 years the only change they made was that they bullshitted the US all the way to the literal top spot, instead of the (already ridiculous) general high ranking
https://twitter.com/Monkeypoxtally/status/1556843260433285120
We recorded 2,073 cases worldwide, new daily record.
NEW HIGH SCORE :agony-4horsemen:
Increasingly feeling like it's gonna be a question of not if, but when this is declared a pandemic :doomer:
Increasingly feeling like it's gonna be a question of not if, but when this is declared a pandemic
I remember those halcyon days of some weeks ago when I hoped cases would plateau at around 3,000 which I upped to 3,500 and then to 5,000. After that I hoped cases would stay under 10,000. And then I stopped hoping.
Remember the good ol' days of only having one pandemic to contend with, instead of now in the year 2023 and dealing with the COVID/monkeypox/polio pandemic trio?
We should be so lucky. Only three?
I wonder what else will make a comeback. Tuberculosis? The measles? Hepatitis?...
I'm looking forward to a Matt Yglesias post on his Substack - "Some countries have the plague. And that's okay."
I'm pretty sure the next thing is going to be a strain of polio mutating through unmitigated spread in those NY communities with 60% vaccination rates that becomes able to escape the immunity conferred by said vaccine
oh and it becomes airborne, too, because why not (currently iirc it's primarily transmitted through poop)
I'm all about having many options to choose from when it comes to tortilla chips, bottled water, cars, pandemics, etc. :so-true:
"You know I'm thinking about the 2026 Dodge Behemoth armored personal carrier. Do ya know how we could make some extra money, honey?"
"No. How?"
"Don't get mad, k? Dakota could help out."
"Tell me you're joking."
"I guess ya missed it. President DeSantis held a press conference and he said he's 'liberating farming and making it free.' The Work Will Set You Free bill is gonna pass this week."
"What do you want to do? Are you actually saying you want our six year-old to work out in the fields so you can buy that monster truck thing?"
"It's not out in the fields. Shade is provided. It would be just 20 hours a week to get the discount. Dodge Farms is perfectly safe. Mostly. She's got really good manual dexterity. I bet she could be a really good cherry picker.."
It'll probably be even worse after the really plum jobs that promise to be not about picking fruit are from kiddie creeping vampires collecting more victims. :libertarian-alert:
"So, were you listening to me? Understand this - I'll make it very simple - if you try to make her pick cherries - I'm leaving you and I'm taking her with me."
"It was the 20 hours a week right? I know it's a lot of time. So I looked around and I found something even better! I.A.D. - that's Involuntary Adrenochrome Donator."
Increasingly feeling like it’s gonna be a question of not if, but when this is declared a pandemic
They're not going to declare it a pandemic. They will deny it completely. They've done that for COVID when Biden became president, so why would this be different?
Well the WHO recently declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), which is like one of the final steps just short of declaring a virus a pandemic. The WHO, for instance, declared COVID a PHEIC about a couple months before declaring it a pandemic. And I think it would increasingly become really hard to deny the grim reality of the situation if/when we get into hundreds of thousands of confirmed cases.
In general though, I think you're right, jack shit will be done once again with monkeypox, should we find ourselves in a twindemic. We'll see Biden contract monkeypox right before the 2024 presidential debates with Trump, and a drugged-up, still-contagious Biden will tell the heartfelt story of how he overcame the monkeypox lesions in his asshole by doing twenty push-ups and how we must all learn to live with monkeypox. Meanwhile, Trump will keep referring to him as "Monkey Joe" and interrupting Biden with intermittent monkey screeches throughout the debate and talk about how his doctors told him he has the strongest body and most beautiful antibodies they've ever seen, and Trump will offer to donate some of his blood to Biden if he agrees that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump.
Trump will keep referring to him as “Monkey Joe” and interrupting Biden with intermittent monkey screeches throughout the debate.
:sicko-beaming:
So mote it be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_emergency_of_international_concern
It seems like the intro of this page is pretty good for highlighting past diseases that had that status and a general sentence on how a virus qualifies for that status.
Between 2009 and 2022, there were seven PHEIC declarations: the 2009 H1N1 (or swine flu) pandemic, the 2014 polio declaration, the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola in Western Africa, the 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic,[5] the 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic,[6] the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,[7] and the ongoing 2022 monkeypox outbreak.[
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response", formulated when a situation arises that is "serious, sudden, unusual, or unexpected", which "carries implications for public health beyond the affected state's national border" and "may require immediate international action"
I got the first vaccine jab for this over the weekend. Supplies are going to be limited for the rest of the year at least so if you feel the need to vaccinate for it, do it sooner rather than later.
I received mine through my county's health department and they only had 500 doses to administer. They didn't have a solid plan on how I'll get the second in a month. The health department will reach out to me. It isn't organized at all, which is different than my experience with COVID.
Also, whatever case counts the US has are going to be incredibly understated. Testing was nearly impossible to get before the public health emergency declaration so it's been spreading through the US for months at this point.
Did you have to assert that you're some kind of really incredibly horny gay man to get it? Seems like that's generally required in the States for the moment.
I am gay and yes, I did. There was a pre-screening that was essentially "do you fall in one of these categories y/n?"
78 known cases in Colorado and zero mention of my university going online for the semester. Texans and Californians both flock here en masse. In a couple weeks when the students flood in, shit's going to kick off. Every cash-handling business is staffed by them.
America is banana republic petri dish with nuclear weapons.
It's a shame we can't shoot viruses or invade a country with brown people and claim they're at fault for our sicknesses. Wait a minute. Shooting a virus isn't possible but Iran exists!
