Do You Remember The Names Of All Those Diseases That Were Going To Wipe Us Out?

[dance2trance]

I remember the following as being the latest in the death mechanisms and their agents which would lead to TOTAL global life extinction but as we are all here what happened to them? did they move to the countryside to rest up?
I recollect: chicken flu, swine flu, bird flu, Asian flu, anorexia, bulimia, measles, malaria, carbon monoxide and dioxide poisoning, acid rain, nuclear fallout, chemical attacks, face eating virus, urban foxes and rats.
Anybody else remember what the media bombarded us with in the 'silly season' prior to Brexit being the only threat to us.

[Mozz71]

Well, the Daily Fail used to bombard us with something new that could give us cancer every couple of weeks.

[ToraToraTora]

Boris Prorogued them

[rowanwitch]

So many more things that could do it Modified smallpox, modified hemorrhagic viruses, They cant tell us about those so we get stories about intermediate threats.

[waterboatman]

One they can't cure is stupidity!

[rowanwitch]

That will be the one to do it I expect... either through climate change or tampering with hot bugs

[ummmm]

SARS is the one I remember the most. I was on a 13 hour flight after they'd disinfected the plane. It was horrendous.

[AZardoz]

The boffins have been busy:
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062896278/bitten/
It won't be just one thing.

[douglas9401]

The climate emergency.

[aelmpvw]

the good news is that the 'experts' now say it's ok to eat red meat

[dannyk13]

Avian flu

[davebro]

Well Ebola is still active in Africa. If properly managed could help reduce populations & solve global warming/pollution!

[dance2trance]

Thanks all. It would appear that in general we all larf at the maniac twaddle pushed by the gutter press and the NHS bureaucrats ordered to push scares and pills galore because the NHS is in the pay of chemical giants.

[spathiphyllum]

you forgot red meat and bacon

[Prudie]

mad cow diesease

[Prudie]

^ see I may have it :-)

[237SJ]

I remember MERS - we were all going to catch it from camels in the Middle East apparently.

[jim360]

Or people took the threats seriously and took action to avoid them. :/