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of movies with this kind of plot, should you be in the mood to see how the world fares in fictional mode, some plots being more realistic than others.
Lucky for us there won’t be zombies or vampires rising from the after effects of the virus. I’m pretty confident of this.
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someone intentionally set the virus loose in the world. All the wild animals and birds passing viruses back and forth are Mother Nature’s toxic laboratory
at work.
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I’ve been watching the excellent Netflix documentary “Pandemic,” which is not about the current coronavirus but everything the doctors and scientists are discussing is quite applicable to the situation we’re watching unfold today. (There was also a made-for-TV series with the same title in 2007
and there’s no connection.) The documentary “Pandemic” shows the amazing lengths to which scientists all over the world are going to try to study the
evolving viruses in the nonhuman sector. It also shows what steep odds doctors are up against in developing countries and those with less than robust health care infrastructure.
These outbreaks have patterns, going back thousands of years. There’s a good article on Health24.com
detailing what they consider to be the Top 10 epidemics in history.
consider different scenarios.
everyday preventive actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses, including:
an infected person has recently handled and then touching you mouth, nose or eyes.
This article was originally posted on SFF Seven
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Veronica Scott grew up in a house with a library as its heart. Dad loved science fiction, Mom loved ancient history and Veronica thought there needed to be more romance in everything. When she ran out of books to read, she started writing her own stories.
Seven time winner of the SFR Galaxy Award, as well as a National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, Veronica is also the proud recipient of a NASA Exceptional Service Medal relating to her former day job, not her romances!
She read the part of Star Trek Crew Member in the official audiobook production of Harlan Ellison’s “The City On the Edge of Forever.”
