Ebola keeps cropping up in different spots in Africa and making the occasional appearance in South America, but never spreads very far because it pretty much kills everyone who gets it, very quickly. Plus you have to have contact with the body fluids of an infected person, their blood, spit or semen, to become infected yourself. It doesn’t travel by air other than droplets from coughing. Of course, a simple mutation could fix that.
But Ebola is a minor concern compared to the new stuff that keeps being generated by the African jungles, and the latest is an Ebola-like disease called Marburg Virus. Described as a highly infectious virus that causes hemorrhagic fever, Marburg belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus which also causes hemorrhagic fever.
Another sweetheart virus is the Chapare Virus, also very much like Ebola, that kills by massive hemorrhaging. You start bleeding everywhere, in your intestines, your lungs, out your pores, your eyes, out your ass, everywhere. This is mostly what spreads the disease, because of all that infected blood. People tending to you touch it, and people touch their eyes, pick their noses, don’t wash their hands before eating and Presto! They’re now infected, too.
The Chapare Virus appears to have originated in Bolivia. At least, that’s where the only two known outbreaks have happened, and years apart, which means that the virus lives on in the jungle somewhere, probably in monkeys.
All these diseases are also spread by rodents, from their shit and piss mostly, but like Bubonic Plague, mice and rats have fleas that suck their infected blood and then bite people. Plus breathing the air of someone who’s coughing will do it.
The lab made Covid disease never started from monkeys or other animals and then mutated to infect humans. It was deliberately created to specifically target humans. As it turns out, and what the media never tells you, is that this virus is 5 times more infectious and fatal to Orientals than to Caucasians because of a difference in the receptors of the cells of the two races.
But like all viruses, it mutates and new forms of the Covid Disease are already springing up and spreading, just like the flu does every year. Every year there’s at least 2 and usually more new, predominant flu varieties going around, which is why getting the flu shot doesn’t always protect you. It may keep you from getting one or two types but if you catch a different type then the vaccine doesn’t work.
Same with Covid, only the problem is that Covid is SPECIAL. It’s made specifically to destroy human lung tissue. The flu does not. You can get lung infections from having the flu because it lowers your immunity and allows one or more of a variety of pneumonia viruses to infect you. Covid itself attacks the lungs, that’s what it’s built for and what it does best. A Covid infection in your lungs is not pneumonia, it’s COVID and it does very rapid and permanent destruction to lung tissue.
Covid is now a part of the Human Condition. Like the constantly mutating Influenza, it will never go away. There can never be a cure for it because it constantly changes to a different form, just like the flu. The best that Medicine can do is to try to keep up with the new mutations with new vaccines.
It would be stupid of us to think that the Chinese, Russians, us or any other nation that’s messing with the DNA of diseases will take a message from Covid and stop developing new forms of Germ Warfare, which Covid is. They’ll keep right on putting all life on the planet at risk in their efforts to create new diseases. The only thing that really works to wipe out old diseases is Time and Evolution. The dinosaurs had diseases and parasites that don’t exist today because they mutated and evolved along with everything else. Diseases that rapidly wipe out their hosts die out when their hosts do, which very possibly is what will happen to us as hosts.
When populations of any animal are thin, outbreaks of disease stay localized until they run their course but when populations are dense across a wide area, many more become sick and die because the disease spreads to all of them. This is one of the problems humanity faces now, with pandemics and plagues. There’s so very many of us now and we mingle all over the planet. Only isolated jungle and desert tribes might be spared from global pandemics. So if a truly lethal and contagious disease comes around, some really nasty Covid mutation maybe, it could wipe out 90% of humanity.
So let’s see. We have an imminent threat of global plague, there’s at least 5 places right now where conflict could expand into a world nuclear war, the entire human population is moving, intermixing, interbreeding, erasing national boundaries even as they posture aggressively against each other, populations are rising up against their governments and the arms race is hotter than ever.
What could possibly go wrong?