Virus X

You think that Covid-19 has been crazy? Changed the world? I say, this is nothing. Sometime in the not-so-distant future, we'll face another pathogen that will make Covid-19 seem cute and friendly. And when it comes, this quote will seem oracular, just as these ones do now:

From 2007: "Coronaviruses are well known to undergo genetic recombination, which may lead to new genotypes and outbreaks. The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb." ~ Vincent C. C. Cheng, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo, and Yuen Kwok-yung, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection

From 2018: "As experience has taught us more often than not the thing that is gonna hit us is something that we did not anticipate. Just the way we didn't anticipate Zika, we didn't think there would be an Ebola that would hit cities. [...] If you develop an understanding of the commonalities of those, you can respond more rapidly." ~ Anthony Fauci

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