religion and disease super-spreaders
Sunday, 19 November 2023 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eWow! The Republicans in the USA state of Wisconsin have officially lost their minds. They have proposed a law to change their state constitution to ensure churches can be super-spreaders of disease during the next pandemic.
During the COVID pandemic, churches (like all public places) were restricted in the number of people who could visit at any one time. But preachers were so selfish and were happy for members of their congregations to die, so they fought against the restriction... and many just totally ignored it. We saw, all around the world, religious events became the most effective spreaders of the disease in all of society.
We were lucky with COVID. It has a tiny mortality -- it kills about 1 or 2% of people infected by it (nearly 7 million deaths so far), though a much larger number have long-term problems. The next pandemic has about a 99% chance of being more dangerous than COVID. If it has, say, 50% mortality then we are in deep trouble, because when religious people spread it among themselves it won't just stay with them; they will infect the broader population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4n6I5DSHg0
During the COVID pandemic, churches (like all public places) were restricted in the number of people who could visit at any one time. But preachers were so selfish and were happy for members of their congregations to die, so they fought against the restriction... and many just totally ignored it. We saw, all around the world, religious events became the most effective spreaders of the disease in all of society.
We were lucky with COVID. It has a tiny mortality -- it kills about 1 or 2% of people infected by it (nearly 7 million deaths so far), though a much larger number have long-term problems. The next pandemic has about a 99% chance of being more dangerous than COVID. If it has, say, 50% mortality then we are in deep trouble, because when religious people spread it among themselves it won't just stay with them; they will infect the broader population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4n6I5DSHg0