zoonotic diseases – Uncommon Descent

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COVID-19 pandemic and zoonotic diseases (via animals)

The bad news, as you will learn, among other things, when you read the non-panic news, is that precisely because COVID-19 is much less lethal than SARS, it is apt to be around longer.

JVL Kairosfocus: you already have an adequate answer on the main issue, and have refused to acknowledge it. Why should I... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
relatd Doubter at 27, "I reject the strict Christian perspective centered on Jesus’s sacrifice. In particular the belief that all humans... – At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the...
bornagain77 D: "I reject the strict Christian perspective centered on Jesus’s sacrifice." And yet, more assuredly than any other fact of... – At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the...
relatd Some fiction being posted here. After The Fall, a literal, actual event, Creation was corrupted. The Bible tells us that... – At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
relatd Jerry at 5, A few people have been assigned to UD. It's their job to post drivel. – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...
relatd I am an RPG guy. I have other hobbies involving science and military history. – At Mind Matters News: If DNA...
doubter My point of view on this matter (the ontological nature of human existence and suffering) poses a very different stance... – At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the...
Alan Fox The answer is, ideological commitment to a self defeating scheme of thought, evolutionary materialistic scientism and/or its fellow travellers.I just... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox ...by merely objecting using an ascii coded text string expressing English sentences — a case of observable FSCO/I, you show... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox Your quarrel is with observables such as the very text of your objection, which shows functionally specific complex organisation, not... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox There’s the strawman, we are not looking at “unknown data sets.” We are first observing a characteristic pattern distinguishable from... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox Funny, we have a sign that is tested on trillions of examples and is uniformly reliable.One is enough. Show me! – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
jerry If one downloads the Kindle version of Life’s Origins you will find it hard to find religion discussed in the... – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...
jerry What logic necessitates either of these? Explain why the creator would want to create an inferior world? That’s what you... – At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
PaV Jerry: What obliged the Creator to create? What obliges the Creator to create a perfect world? What logic necessitates either... – At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
kairosfocus EDTA et al, the true nothing is non being. Were there ever utter non being, as such can have no... – At Quanta: How the Physics of...
kairosfocus AF, doubling down on the strawman: >>you cannot do what you claim.>> 1: Funny, we have a sign that is... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
jerry Meyer really needs to move on and quit recycling the same religion-as-science meme that forms the core of his three... – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...
EDTA Pater @ 8, Nothing (true nothingness, not the pseudo-nothingness physicists are always tossing about) is the default because it is... – At Quanta: How the Physics of...
Pater Kimbridge Why must "nothing" be the default, and "something" be what needs explaining? At the level of the cosmos, it may... – At Quanta: How the Physics of...
Alan Fox KF:...why I have declared intellectual independence and refuse to hobble my knowledge on adequate and responsible warrant to your inveterate... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...