Zoonotic Crossover Argument

Daszak’s favourite claim  (edit - favourite of course is: whoever disagrees with me is a conspiracy theorist - so second favourite ...) is:
We can safely estimate that between one and seven million people are infected with bat coronaviruses each year  (in South East Asia alone).

People are infected, so the story goes, on a daily basis.. by undiscovered viruses in wildlife in emerging disease hotspots.

Why are they emerging?  The hotspots are the same as they ever were - the only emerging being done is by the Zoonati.

Any one of these could be the next ‘Disease X’ – potentially even more disruptive and lethal than COVID-19.

Indeed.  So, 7mil divided by 365 = 19 178 potential Disease Xs every day!

The Message is:

Be afraid. Zoonotic crossover events are lurking/happening around every corner, in every human interaction with animals - from bats to backyard chickens.  A Disease X like Covid was always ready to explode - which we warned you about - btw.  Now get ready for the next one ...

But we’re all to blame – we talked about pandemics professionally, but we should have shouted louder. Some people did, but they were called scaremongerers, accused of hyping it up.  Look at where we are now."

Don’t be too hard on yourself Pete - you shouted long n loud from the world’s loudest platforms. You totally out-shouted the other voices (Prof Ebright) warning that your behaviour was bound to unleash a pandemic.  You did your absolute best.   When the history of Covid is written - no-one can take that away from you.

On the upside, where you are now is a rich-getting-richer WHO Celebrity Scientist - which is not a bad going for a boy from Bangor University ... 

Furthermore, if you get your way, there's still plenty more where that came from ...

A pandemic such as this one isn’t a once-in-a-lifetime tragedy.

The scariest thing is how confident you are that people won't find out the truth.  Or is that you don't care, coz you have the power to side-line them even if they do ....?

So what are the Zoonati's main points:

 (a): Any one of those 20k crossover events per day caused Covid.

 (b): Shut up (if you're a non-Zoonati)

(c)  The big lesson to learn from this one is: we have to spend the money to properly prepare now.

Give us one or two billion dollars to transition the world to a new-normal-lockdown-compliant-get-your-6-monthly-jab-surveillance mentality - whilst we collect & engineer even more deadly diseases at the Bat Lab.

That’s just the free-world entry-level version.  Centralize global control.  Hands up any globo-politicians that would like to wield that kind of data/authority over the masses … going forward?

We estimate a nine to one return on investment, at least...and that's without including the cost of Covid.

That's a 900% return for investors into Daszak/WIV Inc!  Wow, sounds tempting.

The problem is that it's hard (for EcoHealth/WIV) to convince people to fund a big project that would cost one or two billion dollars when these truly global pandemics are not common.  (super-rare actually - we’ll get there soon)

I worry that we’re not going to change.

Don’t worry!  It’s changing.  You've irreversibly changed the world Pete!  How many of us can say that?