Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded...
by djhn on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:48PM
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We theoretically may have avoided, for the next few decades, the risk of a truly dangerous infectious disease being underestimated, something halfway between Covid and extinction-level threat.
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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded...
by sellyme on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:35PM
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Given the sheer quantity of idiots underestimating it right now, I'm not too sure that things will have improved a few decades down the line.
Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded...
by ehnto on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:36AM
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I think it's hopeful humanity would prevail a more deadly pandemic, many countries closed borders very quickly and there are island nations with understandably quick responses. Civilization as we know it could definitely still get wiped out though.