# 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](https://ipbes.net/covid19stimulus) 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](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08g5873).. by [undiscovered viruses](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6378/872) 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](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/coronavirus-pandemics.html). Now get ready for the next one ...

*But we’re all to blame – we talked about pandemics professionally, but we should have [shouted louder](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic). 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](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic).*

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](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/will-see-outbreaks-inevitable-warning-worlds-famous-virus-hunter/) to learn from this one is: we have to **spend the money** to properly prepare now.*    
Give us [*one or two billion dollars*](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/will-see-outbreaks-inevitable-warning-worlds-famous-virus-hunter/) 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?