Quote (Master_Zappy @ Oct 11 2014 09:00am)
people like to mention this point saying that its hard to spread, and its not quite as contagious as the common cold. Well the cold is easily spread, think about how many people in your office/school get the cold and flu every year.
The common cold is spread either by direct contact with infected secretions from contaminated surfaces or by inhaling the airborne virus after individuals sneeze or cough. Person-to-person transmission often occurs when an individual who has a cold blows or touches their nose and then touches someone or something else.
The human in me wants this disease to go away, for people to be happy and healthy. The realist in my says 7bill people on this planet is far to high, the majority of the worlds problems are the result of overpopulation , fighting for diminishing resources and all the related issues. A 30-50% reduction in our population in likely the most metro areas in some ways wouldn't be an entirely bad thing, like pruning a bush.
The world is only overpopulated in certain places. You haven't studied demographics or population before so it is just a newbie error.
Saying seven billion people on the planet is meaningless. In the industrialized world our biggest problem is our aging population and not enough young people to take care of them, especially in 50 years when the population pyramid turns upside down.
Again, don't expect such an obvious layperson to know this, but it gets frustrating hearing it over and over again. It sounds just like the sky is falling, or that whites won't be the absolute majority in the US anymore as if all non-whites are one monolithic group that can even be counted together.