{"id":27541,"date":"2022-01-04T21:54:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27541"},"modified":"2022-01-04T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:54:33","slug":"just-how-common-are-pandemics-you-might-be-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27541","title":{"rendered":"Just how common are pandemics? You might be surprised."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Currently I am reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Seven-Change-World-Gordon-Brown\/dp\/1398503614\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25RO7U9DZUD0R&amp;keywords=gordon+brown+7+ways+to+change+the+world&amp;qid=1641329079&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=Gordon+Brown%2Cstripbooks%2C77&amp;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Seven Ways To Change The World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face&#8221;<\/a> by Gordon Brown. In his chapter on &#8216;Preventing Pandemics&#8217;, he writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Lest we think COVID-19 is a &#8216;black swan&#8217; and that global pandemics are one-offs, it is worth examining the evidence. Throughout history, more people have been killed by pandemics than by wars and lesser conflicts.<\/p><p>And indeed it is an equally remarkable contemporary fact that, already in this still-young century, we have witnessed five large-scale epidemics: SARS (2003), avian flu (2009), Ebola (2014), Zika (2018), and now COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I am reading &#8220;Seven Ways To Change The World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face&#8221; by Gordon Brown. In his chapter on &#8216;Preventing Pandemics&#8217;, he writes: &#8220;Lest we think COVID-19 is a &#8216;black swan&#8217; and that global pandemics are one-offs, it is worth examining the evidence. Throughout history, more people have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27545,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27541\/revisions\/27545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}