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CORONA VIRUS, EXPLAINED. A vox produced series.
Written by: Dr.Shadab Kamal
Starred:
J.K.
Simmons .. self narrator
Bill
Gates .. self-gates foundation (co-chair)
Maryn
McKenna .. self- journalist
Episode 1- Knew it coming!! Or a mystery yet to unravel?
Opening shot: Snaps of
different countries in lockdown, sirens hailing, birds chirping, empty roads,
no human. J.K. Simmons intones, “Before closing their borders, and locking down
their citizens, many world leaders downplayed the new virus that was sweeping
the globe."
Sars_2002 , Mers_2012
and then Sars COV-2 named Covid 19 (corona virus disease 2019)
Over the millennia,
the epidemics have been mass killers on a scale.
6th
century pandemic – Plague of justanian – killed 50 million people
14th
century pandemic – plague of Black Death – killed 200 million people in Europe.
20th
century pandemic – the Small Pox – was estimated to kill 300 million people but
have not.
Worlds’s 1st
vaccine – for small pox that had been available since 1796 saved the disaster.
However, in “1980 we had massive global virus campaign and small pox was the 1st virus that had been successfully eradicated from the world”, as well. [fact stated by J.K.Simmon in CORONA VIRUS EXPLAINED].
However, in “1980 we had massive global virus campaign and small pox was the 1st virus that had been successfully eradicated from the world”, as well. [fact stated by J.K.Simmon in CORONA VIRUS EXPLAINED].
On 7th November
2019, a Netflix EXPLAINED series, EP 4 titled
“THE NEXT PANDEMIC”,
“THE NEXT PANDEMIC”,
(Also narrated by
J.K.SIMMONS Starring Bill Gates) described
how a virus like the coronavirus spreads in live animal markets like the one in
Wuhan. People who aren't worried about a
looming global pandemic probably should be; preparing for an outbreak; Bill
Gates and other experts weigh in.
They discussed about
past pandemics, the bubonic and pneumonic plague, Ebola, the famous 1918 flu
and small pox. Role of human technology being a cause of pandemic and its role
in studying, identifying, diagnosing,treating and preventing diseases.
The episode narrated china's wet markets as DISEASE X FACTORY;
These wet markets are strikingly similar to the sea food
market in wuhan. Since the sars epidemic a number of researchers were catching
bats for researches and then after Chinese sea food markets, the source was thought
to be a research lab. However, till date it is unknown!!
Many people around the Globe are now confidently stating it
as conspiracy. Let’s hope this “CORONAVIRUS EXPLAINED”, come up to a conclusion
in the end.
The documentary narration read,
Dr.anthony fauci national institute of allergy and infectious disease director said on march 12,2020 live on c-span3 “it (vaccine) gonna take a year or year an half to really knows if it works”
In this episode from
2019, experts including Bill Gates discuss the history of pandemics, how they
spread and what could be done to prevent them.
1918 flu –“ st. Louis
city took that approach quickly shutting its schools and public places while Philadelphia
city didn’t and allowed a big parade to go ahead”.
Noting that, Some 50
to 100 million people died in the 1918 influenza pandemic – numbers that
surpass the death toll of World War One, which was being fought at the same
time. The 1918 flu virus infected one in every three people on the planet.
All in All it
discussed from where it began, its spread, corona virus strains, immunity based
survival , what approach is used to break the chain, WHO notifying policy, work
load in hospitals, a call announcing threat of pandemic hitting the country by
dr. wei liang, poor prompt decision making abilities by Italy and USA and the
poor health care systems of under developed countries.
The evolution of
covid 19 from epidemic to pandemic have given us massive information, if you
have been following this since it began, this first episode mainly covers the
exact same story. And I believe that is fair enough as it’s the very first 20
minutes to “corona virus explained” series.
Andrew Cuomo governer of new York on march 29,2020 said “at what point on the other side of the curve do you go back to work?” – THE MAIN QUESTION!!
“196 countries signed onto the WHO notifying policy but most never complied” – FACTS REVEALED!!
Appreciating points:
Historical overview of viruses, replication mechanism, the story behind H1N1 (repeated
though) and providing a deeper insight to encourage countries how social
distancing worked in the past, proper statistical data and researches quoted.My comments:
Being a health professional I didn’t find anything new and interesting in “CORONA VIRUS EXPLAINED” EPISODE 1.
The max part has been focused on SOCIAL DISTANCING. [which is GOOD!]
"the problem is that, if we're not careful that smoldering outbreak can last a long time"
However, if I have to rate this article as a common man who is not into reading research papers and digging the HOW’S, BUT and IFs, I will look it as an eye catching pictorial piece of knowledge, easy to understand and retain.
Another narration read;
“It isn’t china and it isn’t just bats”,
and a
contrast map showing most likely regions showing a new virus leap to humans. [Another
repetition]
“we should have been more prepared..”
– definitely after being in this situation #shouldhave!!
Parting shot:
Parting shot:
“we know what it takes and we have been on this earth since life began and a virus hasn’t beaten us yet.”
– I hope you have said this in sarcasm!! #Hasn’t??
Let's see where it takes us!
#recommended
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