Who Pays to Stop a Pandemic?BIRD flu has not yet turned into a pandemic, but it is already killing the meager hopes of some of the world’s poorest people for a marginally better life
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The thought has crossed my mind a couple times, after hearing stories about bird flu. and the countries killing/culling birds, "How do you replace 1.5 million poultry?"
I mean, not even taking into account the impact on small, poor families, just considering that you're wiping out all the poultry in what, a hundred-mile-radius? 200 miles? Birds breed faster than humans, but that's still going to take a while to bring that population back.
And in the meantime, any form of poultry, either live, or in food form, in that area is going to be very expensive.
Yeah, a lot of governance just seems to come down to stupid things that you forget about, like how to replace birds. I think there is an overly simplistic view of just how much work it is to run a country or any sort of governmental body, national or international.
I am not sure about how they would solve the bird problem though as there is an idea lately that everything should be self financing which is pretty rediculous as we pay government taxes so that they build things for us such as roads and if they didn't spend so much of our money helping out failing airlines maybe we'd actually see some of the money spent on us, like we pay them to do. (I was reading stuff about hott lanes today, a lot of companies seem to be practically salviating at the concept that they can convince the government to let us pay them to drive into the city. It's weird as they take the idealogy of convience to the point of attacking HOV lanes, which actually work quite well to take cars off the roads.)
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I mean, not even taking into account the impact on small, poor families, just considering that you're wiping out all the poultry in what, a hundred-mile-radius? 200 miles? Birds breed faster than humans, but that's still going to take a while to bring that population back.
And in the meantime, any form of poultry, either live, or in food form, in that area is going to be very expensive.
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I am not sure about how they would solve the bird problem though as there is an idea lately that everything should be self financing which is pretty rediculous as we pay government taxes so that they build things for us such as roads and if they didn't spend so much of our money helping out failing airlines maybe we'd actually see some of the money spent on us, like we pay them to do. (I was reading stuff about hott lanes today, a lot of companies seem to be practically salviating at the concept that they can convince the government to let us pay them to drive into the city. It's weird as they take the idealogy of convience to the point of attacking HOV lanes, which actually work quite well to take cars off the roads.)
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