Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ...
by Nasrudith on Sunday April 03, 2022 @07:30PM
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It isn't so much the destruction of habitats in itself as human encroachment of rising density increasing the odds of both contact and exposure as well as transmission to larger human society. Ebola is a horrifying and contagious disease but it is limited in its spread to rural areas where it quickly burns itself out by being too lethal.
Shouldn't the null hypothesis be that a lack of animal habitats means fewer animals and less chance of zoonotic diseases emerging? I know it's tempting to blame all the world's problems on climate change, but we need to be careful not to exaggerate things and give climate change denialists weak arguments to attack.
> Oh yes, QR codes surveillance.
You may not feel that these systems have been, or would ever be, used against you, but unfortunately people in other countries might not be so lucky[0][1], and bad uses of technology have a way of spreading internationally.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/cybergulag-rus...
[1] https://theconversation.com/chinas-surveillance-creep-how-bi...