The biggest fear is if rabies becomes airborne. Probably followed closely by an interview I saw with a virologist back at the height of the pandemic who was asked “what is the worst nightmare scenario for a virus you can think of?” He said sombrely… “At the moment, any HIV virus sucked up by mosquitos is destroyed by the digestive system of the mosquito, so it can’t be passed on like malaria. One day the virus might evolve a way around this problem, then mankind will be in real trouble.”
It's unlikely this would happen given thay the HIV virus is very sensitive and relies on the human body to survive. It dies very very quickly outside the human body and that's inherent to the virus. It would require huge changes or genetic engineering
We could kill off all species of mosquitoes that bite humans. The only thing standing in the way of progress is people that think it would be unethical to intentionally eradicate a few species of insects. We already know nothing depends on them for survival and they do not keep any other pest in check so HIV-carrying mosquitoes would be the breaking point. It's bad enough they are the only thing that kills more people than people kill people.
Seeing as how a mosquito only eats prior to laying eggs, and dies shortly after doing so, I don't see how this scenario is even possible. That virologist might want to talk to an entomologist.
I watched this cuddled up with my rat named Yersin. Learning about the plague as an 11 year old sparked my interest in epidemiology and ultimately medicine, which is where I've wound up... living in a state where on my drive to work I see a common vector of the plague in the USA (prairie dogs).
I became interested in rodents after seeing the movie Ben. I paid for 2 years of college raising rats/mice for pet stores (reptile food). I became an engineer as we already had 3 doctors in the family.
@@ridesq Awwh I’m sorry to hear your little guy has crossed the rainbow bridge 😞 I’m sure you loved him greatly and he knew that 💜 I got a 3 headed rat tattoo on my leg to close the chapter of owning much loved rats. Most of mine (including hairless) got breathing conditions which is heart breaking towards the end of their life, it’s too hard watching them take their last breath :( one of my rats got along with my cat and they loved each other 💜 so lovely to know others appreciate they’re existence . 🌸
A friend of my son contracted bubonic plague several years ago after hiking/camping in California. She got sick (like the flu) but recovered completely. IIRC, she was one of 8 cases in the US that year. It's definitely still around.
@bobhope3589 If you weren't there it didn't happen because your ego won't accept it. We understand, you are a weak simpleton with nothing to discuss, so here you are. If you go overseas in the military you get vaccinated for Plague I and Plague II because they are still around.
@bobhope3589 It's possible: "Risk factors The risk of getting plague is very low. Worldwide, only a few thousand people get plague each year. In the United States, seven people on average get plague each year."
More like a curse: "Yersina PESTis!" Blue beam flies out of the wand and the victim turns into a fleabitten rat with really bad acne😂😂😂 Or worse, turns into a giant bubo....yeeeagh🤢🤢🤢🤢
If you've ever played the OG Pandemic back in the day, the coincidence that Madagascar is the starting point for multiple antibiotic resistance diseases might be a bit of a shocking coincidence...
I literally caught the Plague and had pretty bad symptoms, I was traveling abroad in some shady areas of the world though lol. I survived and it honestly was pretty similar to a typical flu BUT that's bc they caught it right away and the Antibiotics killed it thankfully. SO yes I can confirm it is still around lmao
When those survival guys started doing shows, I found out we have it in the US, mostly in the West and Southwest. It came from public health officials failing to quarantine some people arriving in 1900 on steamships, I think mostly in San Francisco, although it spread to LA. I heard of a case a few years back where a kid got it from a dead squirrel (fleas) and that at least one campground at Yosemite was treated for it.
Years ago, i actually read Dr. Ken Alibek's book about his work as head of the Soviet bio weapons program. *Way* more terrifying than any horror movie. And that was *long* before you had stuff like CRISPR that coukd potentially make it so mych worse.
Biohazard was a fascinating yet terrifying look into the world of biological weapons. I would also recommend The Hot Zone and The Demon in the Freezer. Both by Richard Preston
Ok, now I have to read this book. Because of your comment I went on amazon and bought the kindle version. Thank you for your comment here and the interesting read I will begin shortly ;-)
When I was a kid during the 70's in Southeastern Oregon, USA, two little girls caught a wild rabbit, got bit by the fleas and got Bubonic Plague. Luckily they both survived, but it was quite a close thing. And that's how I learned that Bubonic Plague is endemic in most of the American West. Scary.
Depends how fast it kills people, and at which point it becomes infectious. People care for the sick, so it can transmit diseases, and even corpses may still be infectious.
They wouldn't. Even with highly infectuous ebola strains, people got themselves infected because they fell for superstition and paranoia. After seeing how insanely dumb people reacted to covid, I have lost all faith in humanity's ability to stay alive.
I lived in Arizona back in 2010-2011 and they quarantined part of the reservation because of this bacteria. I really didn't think it was a problem today until I saw that
Pandemic fear is their play and migration control was the main stated reasons for it as I read it as you should have too The wirldhekatg organization is a military arm if CIA greed and ambition which gate is t any different than them. Gates was awarded the worldwide chemtrail spraying contract by the u.s.a. air force. Did it think it in the. Atilnal or world interest to have a private company with. Genecidist belief and making ectopic pregnacys believe as they are absolutely artificially created to murder children. Sv ery child conceived in love as all are their playing with what is more than forbidden..... What comes into them we would never prevent for comupance shall come into those who practice to prevent. Those that know the situation tell to wait until birth is a dominion nor technology ability for criminal who still don't know why people really do choose with their wiser source and community'. Mankind's perverse heaven beliefs must never be forced upon you. So be aware as a doctor of a great Lions Hospital was the forced to speak truth to the pandemic deception.
What came first, the beard or the egg? We may never know. Some say the beard may be an entire superorganism of it's own and Simon has merely grown around it.
This is the stuff of nightmares. Super interesting though. Now I’m going to follow up and watch a plague documentary. It’s like this was my appetizer 😃
Bubonic Plague still pops up and occurs today. Most recently in North China, a Herder died after coming in contact with a dead animal. Last year, if I remember correctly.
And considering how down played and widespread a problem that antibiotic resistance truly is world wide, it wouldn't be totally out of the possibility that in just one or two generations, there will be no effective way to treat infections aside from preventive measures. Think of people dying from shaving nicks and splinters and there you go. Nearly 50,000 people die a year as a result of antibiotic resistance...in the US ALONE. While people and the medie keep up the speculation of which unknown virus will cause the next pandemic, I'm kept up at night from the thought that in 50 years we may have two or three additional viral pandemics. But the antibiotic apocalypse that is slowly building just under the surface will be the true defining highlight in regards to public health within the span of the 21stbl century.
Honestly we have had a good run. Let's face it, as a species we have peaked and are now on the decline intellectually if social media is any indication. Extinction is probably for the best at this point. "Sorry for the inconvenience".
Just remember, anti-bacterial means just that, anti-bacterial. They kill off the good bacteria also. So, scrubbing and washing 50 - 100 times a day leaves no defense for most ick. Bacteria, some, does fight off viruses and bad bacteria.
True. Over-sanitization has lead to some nasty bacteria gaining resistance to not only surface chemicals, but also certain medicines. That's why antibiotics for humans aren't usually otc here in the usa, and are pretty well regulated.
BSE also has a 100% mortality rate and it's spread by prions as well but you get from eating infected beef not people. Although you could get it from eating people. Making an air born version of rabis would be "interesting".
Well, that’s was thoroughly terrifying! Since I’m already severely immunocompromised, I already wear a mask whenever I leave my house, so hopefully that’ll help prevent me from getting anything, but definitely scary!!
6:12 Holy…wow! I don’t know if I have ever seen an actual bubo that wasn’t all black and necrotic looking… or just a drawing from some old textbook! As a science nerd, that’s pretty cool to me 😊
infections with such a high mortality don’t cause pandemics. they incapacitate the sick person too quick, which pretty much cuts short his ability to contact other people. sick people die out pretty quickly, immune people survive, others stay intact. humanity is saved, despite suffering significant losses.
The worst case scenario for a high mortality infection would be if it has a long presymptomatic window in which it is also infectious. Or an infection that doesn't seem like a deadly strain in the first few days or so. Easy to dismiss something that feels like a weak cold until it ramps up to pneumonia, or so on.
7:35 How do you treat it within 24 hours. Unless it’s a really high fever or bleeding from your eyes, most people (and dr’s) are going to suggest waiting a couple days.
Simon, did you really make anoth.. Why am I surprised? I'll just click subscribe and get watching. Oh, this ones been around a while, is there a way to see all of simons channels in one place, so I can make sure I'm not missing any others?
2:25 - Chapter 1 - 3 diseases for the price of one 7:35 - Chapter 2 - Dreamworks presents madagascar 4 ; the antibiotic resistant plague 9:40 - Chapter 3 - How worried should we ?
The biggest threat we should be worrying about at the moment is avian influenza. It has a mortality rate of around 50%-60% in humans but luckily it hasn't been able to make the leap to human to human infections. However, there is a strain going around at the moment that has been wiping out populations of mammals which means that it has made the leap to being infectious between mammals and there is a good chance that it will make that leap to humanity. If it does and has the infectiousness of COVID then it could easily wipe out billions of people without hard quarantines being put in place and we all know how well that worked before...
Yup, that's the one I've been concerned with when I heard it was being spread between minks. Luckily vaccines are being made as we speak, but it will be a nightmare convincing everyone to actually take it if there is indeed a pandemic.
Just look at the Spanish Flu. A highly infectuous avian influenza is pure nightmare fuel. And people underestimate how much the mortality rate goes up once the healthcare system breaks down. Which happened during Covid, in some places, and now everything is even more on edge. There are eyewitness reports during the 1918's pandemic that are impossible to distinguish from the Black Death period, often society collapsed completely.
what we really need to worry about is the very real possibility of RHDV developing the ability to infect humans. extremely contagious. extremely hard to destroy, long incubation period and a very short time between first symptoms and death Mortality rates generally range from 70 to 100 percent, it's one of the scariest pathogens i know of. luckily it only effects rabbits and hares (for now) to my knowledge, but it can also be carried by flies, fleas, mosquitoes, birds, any predator or scavenger that eats rabbits and you get the idea.
not directly linked to yersinia pestis, but i had yersinia enterocolitica about 17 years ago. Got those damn bacteria propobly from pig meat. it was treated with antibiotics and everything was fine after 2 weeks treatman. fast forward to today when your video made me interested into reading about yersinia again. turns out people who had yersinia are likely to develop sarcoidosis and erythema nodosum. guess what i had about 3 years ago. this could be pure coincidence of course but i am know intruiged to look up if those bacteria could survive in my body over this long period of time. 🤨 neverless, thank you for speaking about this topic😀
I have a friend who developed sarcoidosis 10 or so years ago, no previous history or familial. We'd all been around cattle markets for years, rats were always around. It makes me wonder.
I have no evidence of this, but technically speaking, the bacteria are definitely capable of surviving within our bodies for decades, considering our entire lives depend on the ongoing symbiosis with the bacteria living in our guts (good bacteria), which is also why we can't just take unlimited amounts of antibiotica, as the antibiotica doesn't care about what bacteria it kills. It just kills the bacteria and unfortunately for us, the bacteria we need to survive, are not resistant to antibiotics. Would be great if they were, although that would probably also increase the number of bad bacteria that are resistant too, since they can share genes with the good bacteria in our guts.
@@Arterexius Some of the antibiotics are more specific to certain strains of bacteria and less impactful on 'good' bacilli. But in the large you are correct.
@@bikerfirefarter7280 True that, I just usually write these infos as "in the large", due to the severe amount of people not thinking twice about doing something and expects that nothing will happen. It may happen regardless, because humans gonna human, but one can hope
There's a theory gaining some serious consideration out there in epidemiology-land that the bubonic plague and the Black death were NOT the same thing -- that yersinia was endemic in the population already, so it's like looking at the people who died from Covid and noticing they all have signs of herpes and chicken pox. (I'm pretty sure that it really was yersinia, but the theory isn't wack, and gets into the question of 'how do we know'?)
How do we know? Well there are millions of human remains in mass graves from plague outbreaks all over Europe to test... Catacombs in Paris being just one example.
It is backed up pretty well with genetic analyses that the Black Death was indeed caused by Y. pestis. There was a surge of plague deaths in Kyrgyzstan in the late 1330s and researchers discovered a direct ancestor of the strain associated with the Black Death there. It's highly debatable that the plague ever became endemic in Europe. Black rats were an intermediary, not a reservoir host and they died pretty quickly, so new outbreaks most likely started in warmer regions with reservoir hosts like gerbils. It is very fascinating though to think about "plagues" that weren't actually caused by Y. pestis, like the Plague of Athens.
Perhaps the people who died of COVID all had “herpes and chicken pox” because anywhere from 50-99% of the world’s population is infected with at least one type of herpes virus… the majority of them were elderly, a population who would have been born far outside the time before a vaccine was available for chicken pox. Not unexpected they would carry the latent virus. I’m assuming you mean HSV-1 and Varicella zostervirus, however there are more herpesviruses than these, and we nearly all end up with at least 1 so idk, not that interesting of a relationship if you ask me. In terms of getting into “how do we know’ its pretty simple. Undergraduate college students routinely isolate DNA for sequencing which is how we identify a species, subspecies, types, subtype, strain, parovars, isolate, etc, on a genetic basis. We sequence the genetic material of any organism and make a percentage matched comparison to known DNA sequences of almost any organism. It’s all public access, BLAST genome browser if you are curious what the complete genetic sequences of say, Ebola or Variola Major (smallpox). But we know because we have looked and we can look with genetic sequencing :)
Well, let's hope Pharma companies get their priorities together and actually research a new wide spectrum antibiotic, trial it, produce and make it widely available. Which the last time they had any incentive to actually do so, (so we start putting water on this public health dumpster fire that is antibiotic resistance, instead of pouring barrels of liquid stupidity on them to just make the issue explode), was in an ancient and fabled time where instead of texts you got a beep, instead of pushing a button on a car door, one had to develop Popeyesque forearms from the amount if windows that literally had to be rolled down and a single brave Chinese businessman on his way to work decided he had enough of the worlds shit and played chicken with a main battle tank. Because I probably don't have to remind most people that it was less than a century ago human ingenuity blessed the world with a means to easily and safely bring an end to thousands of years of fear and uncertainty with regards to what we simplistically refer to today as "minor infections". I'm much more concerned with my kids in 50 years having to take painstakingly stressful and thorough measures to not cut themselves shaving or having a limb be subject to an exposing bone fracture that will now once again be looked upon as highly probable death sentence. With a tortuous, painful process that comes with sometimes weeks long deathbed bouts before mercy even comes. This is what terrifies me at a much more visceral level than the constant and pervasive speculation of how we can be prepared for the next pandemic from the next novel zoonotic virus that so many people put so much of their attentional stock into they can barely be bothered to even conceive of something much worse and widespread occuring with their lifetimes.
Fun fact: I got detention senior year for using my phone bc I absolutely needed to know if I was right that the bubonic plague was yersinia pestis but ended up not having to do detention because of COVID quarantine took away the end of my senior year.
pls tell the cutter to hold back on all those unnecessary transitions and putting you in frames with glitter, planting your face onto old paintings and the overpowering effects in general... this makes this video feel much less professional compared to the rather calm videos on your other channels :) interesting topic tho and quiet nice to just listen to the video with my screen turned off, to get rid of all the diversion created by the wild editing
Even after we knew COVID was happening, but before we know how bad it was, there was no real push to stop all air travel. We're doomed if something worse happens because the convience of air travel is always going to trump survival.
I got it and referred to it as the clown virus. It made things taste weird, messed with my motor skills enough to make me even more clumsy, nobody knew what symptoms they were going to get, and everyone was acting like clowns. All the lockdowns, vaccinations, and mask-wearing were as pointless as people buying all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
Aye, it felt almost cathartic, actually improved my mental health. It´s one thing telling yourself "you´re not alone" and understanding it. But With Covid, everyone talked about it all the time, driving the point home.
This is a good reason to keep your distance from the wild life especially any and all wild rodents. The history of the plague is very interesting and if it was spreading like it did in the past we are screwed.
Rodents are kind of overrated as a threat, though. Mosquitoes are obviously the worst when it comes to spreading diseases. Dogs are way, way more dangerous than rodents because of rabies. And don't even get me started on bats.
I had COVID 2x my parents are one of those who thought it was a conspiracy.., they brought it home and I ended up in a hospital fighting for my life because of their ignorance, I was coughing up blood because of COVID induced pneumonia and I was in the edge of my death bed.. they gave me some experimental anti viral meds and it was almost like magic how fast got better COVID wasn't a joke I'm still on anti depression meds because of how this effected me mentally..
I had covid 2x and, like most who get this flu, I am fine. I took antihistamines when fluid developed in my lungs and that prevented pneumonia. Disease is part of life, I knew this, & thus I have no psychological scars. The median death age is 80. Not a reason to shut down the country. Our ancestors kept going through far worse.
@@sanniepstein4835 Wana know something crazy? Immune systems are different and if one of the strains of COVID had a mutation it'd could be as bad as the plague, and your ancestors have almost been wiped out several times to pandemics do your research lmao
Ok, when I clicked on this video, I thought it was going to be about MRSA. So, I guess you'll have to do a video on the OTHER bacteria that, at least according to the CDC, WILL be the bug that takes out the human race!
I love the irony here, the amount of species on the brink of or are extinct because of humans and an itty bitty bacterium could balance the books, go nature you badass
Ikr. How did this one slip by me? He must have came up for air between recording of all the other ones and decided there was still a few more minutes in the day for him do another channel.
I think Simon's next NEW channel should either be titled "Channel Generator" if not "Random Channel Generator" or CG/RCG for short... LmMFaO! ;) :P :o)
@@sogerc1 While either could do the trick, I think the biological weapon is more likely to actually get deployed... If for no other reason than it's a more stealthy way of destabilizing a great many systems. And if a effective treatment is found by a terrorist group, I imagine they'd inoculate themselves, and freely release it as a weapon anywhere and everywhere they liked.
That's quite a bad blooper at 2:39, when Yersinia pestis is called a "virus". The word "bacteria" from the title of the video isn't much better - it's the _plural_ of the correct expression "bacterium".
The biggest fear is if rabies becomes airborne. Probably followed closely by an interview I saw with a virologist back at the height of the pandemic who was asked “what is the worst nightmare scenario for a virus you can think of?”
He said sombrely…
“At the moment, any HIV virus sucked up by mosquitos is destroyed by the digestive system of the mosquito, so it can’t be passed on like malaria. One day the virus might evolve a way around this problem, then mankind will be in real trouble.”
It's unlikely this would happen given thay the HIV virus is very sensitive and relies on the human body to survive. It dies very very quickly outside the human body and that's inherent to the virus. It would require huge changes or genetic engineering
We could kill off all species of mosquitoes that bite humans. The only thing standing in the way of progress is people that think it would be unethical to intentionally eradicate a few species of insects. We already know nothing depends on them for survival and they do not keep any other pest in check so HIV-carrying mosquitoes would be the breaking point. It's bad enough they are the only thing that kills more people than people kill people.
Time to wipe out mosquitos to head this problem off...
Rabies is unlikely to ever become airborne, same with ebola and a lot of other viruses. True airborne spread is pretty rare.
Seeing as how a mosquito only eats prior to laying eggs, and dies shortly after doing so, I don't see how this scenario is even possible. That virologist might want to talk to an entomologist.
I watched this cuddled up with my rat named Yersin. Learning about the plague as an 11 year old sparked my interest in epidemiology and ultimately medicine, which is where I've wound up... living in a state where on my drive to work I see a common vector of the plague in the USA (prairie dogs).
That is a morbidly awesome name. Your story is great too, gotta love science
So adorable you’re curled up with your rat! 💜 they’re such beautiful and interesting pets 💜
Hooray for rats, especially ones with dark names. I miss my little guy - lost him last year.
You probably have some great stories.
I became interested in rodents after seeing the movie Ben. I paid for 2 years of college raising rats/mice for pet stores (reptile food).
I became an engineer as we already had 3 doctors in the family.
@@ridesq Awwh I’m sorry to hear your little guy has crossed the rainbow bridge 😞 I’m sure you loved him greatly and he knew that 💜 I got a 3 headed rat tattoo on my leg to close the chapter of owning much loved rats. Most of mine (including hairless) got breathing conditions which is heart breaking towards the end of their life, it’s too hard watching them take their last breath :( one of my rats got along with my cat and they loved each other 💜 so lovely to know others appreciate they’re existence . 🌸
A friend of my son contracted bubonic plague several years ago after hiking/camping in California. She got sick (like the flu) but recovered completely. IIRC, she was one of 8 cases in the US that year. It's definitely still around.
How do you know that, message above? We can’t completely eradicate viruses with our level of technology, and there is no proof this person is lying.
@bobhope3589 Troll
@bobhope3589 If you weren't there it didn't happen because your ego won't accept it. We understand, you are a weak simpleton with nothing to discuss, so here you are. If you go overseas in the military you get vaccinated for Plague I and Plague II because they are still around.
@bobhope3589 It's possible: "Risk factors
The risk of getting plague is very low. Worldwide, only a few thousand people get plague each year. In the United States, seven people on average get plague each year."
@bobhope3589 there are illegal bioweapons labs being discovered in California as we speak.
Yersinia Pestis - surprisingly NOT the name of a character from Harry Potter.
It is the name of my rat though, since Wormtail was already taken.
Sounds a lot like a Hunger Games character from the Capitol…
😂
More like a curse: "Yersina PESTis!" Blue beam flies out of the wand and the victim turns into a fleabitten rat with really bad acne😂😂😂
Or worse, turns into a giant bubo....yeeeagh🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@scibear9944 J. K. Rowling. aka. Persistus BULLshitus.
If you've ever played the OG Pandemic back in the day, the coincidence that Madagascar is the starting point for multiple antibiotic resistance diseases might be a bit of a shocking coincidence...
I actually always started in Greenland.
Because it´s easier to leave it, then to get on it :P
I play plague inc and yup! Green land or Madagascar. 😂
>somebody coughs in Greenland.
Madagascar: Shut. Down. EVERYTHING.
I literally caught the Plague and had pretty bad symptoms, I was traveling abroad in some shady areas of the world though lol. I survived and it honestly was pretty similar to a typical flu BUT that's bc they caught it right away and the Antibiotics killed it thankfully. SO yes I can confirm it is still around lmao
When those survival guys started doing shows, I found out we have it in the US, mostly in the West and Southwest. It came from public health officials failing to quarantine some people arriving in 1900 on steamships, I think mostly in San Francisco, although it spread to LA. I heard of a case a few years back where a kid got it from a dead squirrel (fleas) and that at least one campground at Yosemite was treated for it.
BS
If you live in a rat-infested sewer liberal city, good luck
@@Markwaltonn5860 Which part?
@@Markwaltonn5860 Actually it's most prevalent in the US Midwest
Years ago, i actually read Dr. Ken Alibek's book about his work as head of the Soviet bio weapons program. *Way* more terrifying than any horror movie. And that was *long* before you had stuff like CRISPR that coukd potentially make it so mych worse.
Biohazard was a fascinating yet terrifying look into the world of biological weapons. I would also recommend The Hot Zone and The Demon in the Freezer. Both by Richard Preston
Ok, now I have to read this book. Because of your comment I went on amazon and bought the kindle version. Thank you for your comment here and the interesting read I will begin shortly ;-)
Always remember, it's not the 'mwahahaha' it's the 'oops!'. And with CRiSPR we've got ever so many more people who could have an oops.
When I was a kid during the 70's in Southeastern Oregon, USA, two little girls caught a wild rabbit, got bit by the fleas and got Bubonic Plague. Luckily they both survived, but it was quite a close thing. And that's how I learned that Bubonic Plague is endemic in most of the American West. Scary.
Be careful when handling wild animals. Y. Pesiste, rabies....they could have tons of deadly pathogens
Thanks. Life: 100% fatal. No cure. The only treatment is to enjoy yourselves & be excellent to each other. tavi.
Oh boy, a new video from Simon on yet another channel I've not seen before. I imagine _this_ will cheer me up.
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Oh.
Unfortunately, I lost 3 friends to Covid. RIP Pat, Greg, Michael.
Sorry for your loss
YES...ANOTHER CHANNEL I DISCOVERED...SUBSCRIBED. WHERE IS A LIST TO ALL YOUR CHANNELS?
The thing about diseases with high mortality rates is they have a low spread rate due to the hosts dying.
Depends how fast it kills people, and at which point it becomes infectious. People care for the sick, so it can transmit diseases, and even corpses may still be infectious.
People would actually stay inside if there was a 100% mortality. Even 25%
Some would still witter on about rights and go out unmasked
They wouldn't. Even with highly infectuous ebola strains, people got themselves infected because they fell for superstition and paranoia. After seeing how insanely dumb people reacted to covid, I have lost all faith in humanity's ability to stay alive.
I lived in Arizona back in 2010-2011 and they quarantined part of the reservation because of this bacteria. I really didn't think it was a problem today until I saw that
Pandemic fear is their play and migration control was the main stated reasons for it as I read it as you should have too
The wirldhekatg organization is a military arm if CIA greed and ambition which gate is t any different than them. Gates was awarded the worldwide chemtrail spraying contract by the u.s.a. air force.
Did it think it in the. Atilnal or world interest to have a private company with. Genecidist belief and making ectopic pregnacys believe as they are absolutely artificially created to murder children. Sv ery child conceived in love as all are their playing with what is more than forbidden.....
What comes into them we would never prevent for comupance shall come into those who practice to prevent. Those that know the situation tell to wait until birth is a dominion nor technology ability for criminal who still don't know why people really do choose with their wiser source and community'.
Mankind's perverse heaven beliefs must never be forced upon you.
So be aware as a doctor of a great Lions Hospital was the forced to speak truth to the pandemic deception.
Wow, last time I was this early Simon was just a single cell like some kind of bearded egg!
What came first, the beard or the egg? We may never know. Some say the beard may be an entire superorganism of it's own and Simon has merely grown around it.
Simon, doing one on anthrax would be cool. It’s the only pathogen who’s distribution mechanism is to kill its host.
I swear dude, when do you sleep!? You’re like CVS; just poppin’ up EVERYWHERE!! Congratulations on all the successes!!!
I love this series, please do more?
Simon has more channels than I have ideas. ALWAYS loving it. When are you going to get a mainstream show SIMON?
This is the stuff of nightmares. Super interesting though. Now I’m going to follow up and watch a plague documentary. It’s like this was my appetizer 😃
Well, that was a heartwarming closing comment Simon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
Great learning and Hell of Show of Facts,Bloody well done .
Bubonic Plague still pops up and occurs today. Most recently in North China, a Herder died after coming in contact with a dead animal. Last year, if I remember correctly.
Suggestion: Clone Army
Can you make a army of clones to take over the galaxy or to make an endless number of bald, bearded clones to take over UA-cam?
Simon: Small number of cases and antibiotics still works!
Me: 😃👍
Also Simon: but wait! Bioweapons!
Me: 😳😰
"It's not like there's anything you can do to stop it anyway" thanks for the comforting words factboy.
And considering how down played and widespread a problem that antibiotic resistance truly is world wide, it wouldn't be totally out of the possibility that in just one or two generations, there will be no effective way to treat infections aside from preventive measures. Think of people dying from shaving nicks and splinters and there you go. Nearly 50,000 people die a year as a result of antibiotic resistance...in the US ALONE. While people and the medie keep up the speculation of which unknown virus will cause the next pandemic, I'm kept up at night from the thought that in 50 years we may have two or three additional viral pandemics. But the antibiotic apocalypse that is slowly building just under the surface will be the true defining highlight in regards to public health within the span of the 21stbl century.
Honestly we have had a good run. Let's face it, as a species we have peaked and are now on the decline intellectually if social media is any indication. Extinction is probably for the best at this point.
"Sorry for the inconvenience".
Thanks for making us all crap our pants, Simon. Thanks ever so much.
Just remember, anti-bacterial means just that, anti-bacterial. They kill off the good bacteria also. So, scrubbing and washing 50 - 100 times a day leaves no defense for most ick. Bacteria, some, does fight off viruses and bad bacteria.
There is a difference between anti-bacterial and antibiotic.
True. Over-sanitization has lead to some nasty bacteria gaining resistance to not only surface chemicals, but also certain medicines. That's why antibiotics for humans aren't usually otc here in the usa, and are pretty well regulated.
Good lord how many channels does this man work on? Yet again I find a new one.
2:39 is it technically correct to call it a virus here? I thought it was a bacterium but are the words interchangeable in this situation?
You are such a comfort sometimes
Can't believe you went with black death 2.0 instead of orange is the new black death 😂
BSE also has a 100% mortality rate and it's spread by prions as well but you get from eating infected beef not people. Although you could get it from eating people. Making an air born version of rabis would be "interesting".
Covid was a joke, at least for me, I had a head thing for like a day lol
Exactly.
The fear was worse than the virus.
You say from the luxury of a country with a halfway functional healthcare system
Did this channel have a different name when it started or am I crazy?
A story about a little guy with big dreams beating the odds, inspiring 😭
Well, that’s was thoroughly terrifying! Since I’m already severely immunocompromised, I already wear a mask whenever I leave my house, so hopefully that’ll help prevent me from getting anything, but definitely scary!!
Nice editing on this one.
6:12 Holy…wow! I don’t know if I have ever seen an actual bubo that wasn’t all black and necrotic looking… or just a drawing from some old textbook! As a science nerd, that’s pretty cool to me 😊
infections with such a high mortality don’t cause pandemics. they incapacitate the sick person too quick, which pretty much cuts short his ability to contact other people. sick people die out pretty quickly, immune people survive, others stay intact. humanity is saved, despite suffering significant losses.
The worst case scenario for a high mortality infection would be if it has a long presymptomatic window in which it is also infectious. Or an infection that doesn't seem like a deadly strain in the first few days or so. Easy to dismiss something that feels like a weak cold until it ramps up to pneumonia, or so on.
It's the highly contagious respiratory diseases that are infectious during the presymptomatic phase that have the greatest pandemic potential.
Medieval Europe begs to differ
Another friggin channel! OMG Simon!
Please do a video on bacterial meningitis
7:35 How do you treat it within 24 hours. Unless it’s a really high fever or bleeding from your eyes, most people (and dr’s) are going to suggest waiting a couple days.
Yeah, that's why it's dangerous. Until we know it's an outbreak there would be millions of possible infected
Simon, did you really make anoth..
Why am I surprised? I'll just click subscribe and get watching. Oh, this ones been around a while, is there a way to see all of simons channels in one place, so I can make sure I'm not missing any others?
Simon: The bacteria is
Me: Anthracis bacilli
Simon: Yersinia pestis
Me: Damn
Well, an antibiotic resistant anthrax is no joke.
Didn't the soviet create one?
Simon’s trying to do a speed run on how many words he can say every minute 😬
Thanks!!
Love the little cameo by Schmebuloc 🤣
Video editing was a bit dizzying.
Can you dial it back a bit?
Early hemorrhagic smallpox also has a 100% fatality rate. Late hemorrhagic smallpox is something like 98%.
If ebola ever goes airborne, we're fucked, especially in the States.
Where it started
Whoever made that on the thumbnail, kudos. Looks sick asf (no pun intended lol)
just realized the channel changed its name. When did that happen?
2:25 - Chapter 1 - 3 diseases for the price of one
7:35 - Chapter 2 - Dreamworks presents madagascar 4 ; the antibiotic resistant plague
9:40 - Chapter 3 - How worried should we ?
OK, you are funny, love this comment, thanks for the chuckle ;-)
The biggest threat we should be worrying about at the moment is avian influenza. It has a mortality rate of around 50%-60% in humans but luckily it hasn't been able to make the leap to human to human infections. However, there is a strain going around at the moment that has been wiping out populations of mammals which means that it has made the leap to being infectious between mammals and there is a good chance that it will make that leap to humanity. If it does and has the infectiousness of COVID then it could easily wipe out billions of people without hard quarantines being put in place and we all know how well that worked before...
Yup, that's the one I've been concerned with when I heard it was being spread between minks. Luckily vaccines are being made as we speak, but it will be a nightmare convincing everyone to actually take it if there is indeed a pandemic.
Just look at the Spanish Flu. A highly infectuous avian influenza is pure nightmare fuel. And people underestimate how much the mortality rate goes up once the healthcare system breaks down. Which happened during Covid, in some places, and now everything is even more on edge. There are eyewitness reports during the 1918's pandemic that are impossible to distinguish from the Black Death period, often society collapsed completely.
what we really need to worry about is the very real possibility of RHDV developing the ability to infect humans.
extremely contagious. extremely hard to destroy, long incubation period and a very short time between first symptoms and death Mortality rates generally range from 70 to 100 percent, it's one of the scariest pathogens i know of. luckily it only effects rabbits and hares (for now) to my knowledge, but it can also be carried by flies, fleas, mosquitoes, birds, any predator or scavenger that eats rabbits and you get the idea.
@@windhelmguard5295 Oh, there are lots of hemorrhagic diseases that do hurts us
not directly linked to yersinia pestis, but i had yersinia enterocolitica about 17 years ago. Got those damn bacteria propobly from pig meat. it was treated with antibiotics and everything was fine after 2 weeks treatman. fast forward to today when your video made me interested into reading about yersinia again. turns out people who had yersinia are likely to develop sarcoidosis and erythema nodosum. guess what i had about 3 years ago. this could be pure coincidence of course but i am know intruiged to look up if those bacteria could survive in my body over this long period of time. 🤨 neverless, thank you for speaking about this topic😀
I have a friend who developed sarcoidosis 10 or so years ago, no previous history or familial. We'd all been around cattle markets for years, rats were always around. It makes me wonder.
I have no evidence of this, but technically speaking, the bacteria are definitely capable of surviving within our bodies for decades, considering our entire lives depend on the ongoing symbiosis with the bacteria living in our guts (good bacteria), which is also why we can't just take unlimited amounts of antibiotica, as the antibiotica doesn't care about what bacteria it kills. It just kills the bacteria and unfortunately for us, the bacteria we need to survive, are not resistant to antibiotics. Would be great if they were, although that would probably also increase the number of bad bacteria that are resistant too, since they can share genes with the good bacteria in our guts.
@@Arterexius Some of the antibiotics are more specific to certain strains of bacteria and less impactful on 'good' bacilli. But in the large you are correct.
@@bikerfirefarter7280 True that, I just usually write these infos as "in the large", due to the severe amount of people not thinking twice about doing something and expects that nothing will happen. It may happen regardless, because humans gonna human, but one can hope
@@Arterexius Sadly, so true. sigh.
Well, knowing this will help me sleep better at night.
Yet another channel?! omg. At this point, Whistlerman IS the UA-cam and he just allows other people to also upload stuff here.
Anthrax anyone? I know is a bacteria but they had to close off an entire island because of it for decades.
Yersenia is a bacteria too
Yeah, anthrax it's not joke
Snaps out to the editing crew, you seem to have dealt with the artifact issues and it looks superb for a UA-cam series!
OMG, I am studying this during my PhD, I love it
How do I keep finding new Simon Whistler channels after all this time?! 😂 how many are there in total?
If I fell ill with a disease so elusive that I was the first documented case, I’d have it named ligma.
Cool. Another existential threat for me to lose sleep over.
There's a theory gaining some serious consideration out there in epidemiology-land that the bubonic plague and the Black death were NOT the same thing -- that yersinia was endemic in the population already, so it's like looking at the people who died from Covid and noticing they all have signs of herpes and chicken pox. (I'm pretty sure that it really was yersinia, but the theory isn't wack, and gets into the question of 'how do we know'?)
Agree. There is a growing theory that it is some form of fast spreading virus similar to Ebola.
How do we know? Well there are millions of human remains in mass graves from plague outbreaks all over Europe to test... Catacombs in Paris being just one example.
It is backed up pretty well with genetic analyses that the Black Death was indeed caused by Y. pestis. There was a surge of plague deaths in Kyrgyzstan in the late 1330s and researchers discovered a direct ancestor of the strain associated with the Black Death there. It's highly debatable that the plague ever became endemic in Europe. Black rats were an intermediary, not a reservoir host and they died pretty quickly, so new outbreaks most likely started in warmer regions with reservoir hosts like gerbils. It is very fascinating though to think about "plagues" that weren't actually caused by Y. pestis, like the Plague of Athens.
Perhaps the people who died of COVID all had “herpes and chicken pox” because anywhere from 50-99% of the world’s population is infected with at least one type of herpes virus… the majority of them were elderly, a population who would have been born far outside the time before a vaccine was available for chicken pox. Not unexpected they would carry the latent virus.
I’m assuming you mean HSV-1 and Varicella zostervirus, however there are more herpesviruses than these, and we nearly all end up with at least 1 so idk, not that interesting of a relationship if you ask me.
In terms of getting into “how do we know’ its pretty simple. Undergraduate college students routinely isolate DNA for sequencing which is how we identify a species, subspecies, types, subtype, strain, parovars, isolate, etc, on a genetic basis. We sequence the genetic material of any organism and make a percentage matched comparison to known DNA sequences of almost any organism. It’s all public access, BLAST genome browser if you are curious what the complete genetic sequences of say, Ebola or Variola Major (smallpox). But we know because we have looked and we can look with genetic sequencing :)
Y. pestis was found in many bodies of victims. It's pretty much established
Listening to this while on strong antibiotics for MRSA. Fun times.
Well, let's hope Pharma companies get their priorities together and actually research a new wide spectrum antibiotic, trial it, produce and make it widely available. Which the last time they had any incentive to actually do so, (so we start putting water on this public health dumpster fire that is antibiotic resistance, instead of pouring barrels of liquid stupidity on them to just make the issue explode), was in an ancient and fabled time where instead of texts you got a beep, instead of pushing a button on a car door, one had to develop Popeyesque forearms from the amount if windows that literally had to be rolled down and a single brave Chinese businessman on his way to work decided he had enough of the worlds shit and played chicken with a main battle tank. Because I probably don't have to remind most people that it was less than a century ago human ingenuity blessed the world with a means to easily and safely bring an end to thousands of years of fear and uncertainty with regards to what we simplistically refer to today as "minor infections". I'm much more concerned with my kids in 50 years having to take painstakingly stressful and thorough measures to not cut themselves shaving or having a limb be subject to an exposing bone fracture that will now once again be looked upon as highly probable death sentence. With a tortuous, painful process that comes with sometimes weeks long deathbed bouts before mercy even comes. This is what terrifies me at a much more visceral level than the constant and pervasive speculation of how we can be prepared for the next pandemic from the next novel zoonotic virus that so many people put so much of their attentional stock into they can barely be bothered to even conceive of something much worse and widespread occuring with their lifetimes.
Fun fact: I got detention senior year for using my phone bc I absolutely needed to know if I was right that the bubonic plague was yersinia pestis but ended up not having to do detention because of COVID quarantine took away the end of my senior year.
What a horrible story
pls tell the cutter to hold back on all those unnecessary transitions and putting you in frames with glitter, planting your face onto old paintings and the overpowering effects in general... this makes this video feel much less professional compared to the rather calm videos on your other channels :)
interesting topic tho and quiet nice to just listen to the video with my screen turned off, to get rid of all the diversion created by the wild editing
Oh my ......
Now I'm seriously considering redownloading Plague Inc. 😮
Probably a bit more concerned about an airborne version of smallpox, ebola, or Marburg than i am black death.
When did this channel name change, I just realized it now😂
Even after we knew COVID was happening, but before we know how bad it was, there was no real push to stop all air travel. We're doomed if something worse happens because the convience of air travel is always going to trump survival.
Weren’t Yersinia Pestis one of the acts in the Eurovision Song Contest?
when covid hit almost nothing changed for me... the only thing was wearing a mask on my very occasional home leavings 😂
Same
Me too
I got it and referred to it as the clown virus. It made things taste weird, messed with my motor skills enough to make me even more clumsy, nobody knew what symptoms they were going to get, and everyone was acting like clowns. All the lockdowns, vaccinations, and mask-wearing were as pointless as people buying all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
Aye, it felt almost cathartic, actually improved my mental health.
It´s one thing telling yourself "you´re not alone" and understanding it.
But With Covid, everyone talked about it all the time, driving the point home.
Same and I never caught it
And now I have an incredible urge to buy a few thousand cans of Lysol and go to town on everything in my home..... o.O
This is a good reason to keep your distance from the wild life especially any and all wild rodents. The history of the plague is very interesting and if it was spreading like it did in the past we are screwed.
Rodents are kind of overrated as a threat, though. Mosquitoes are obviously the worst when it comes to spreading diseases. Dogs are way, way more dangerous than rodents because of rabies. And don't even get me started on bats.
I had COVID 2x my parents are one of those who thought it was a conspiracy.., they brought it home and I ended up in a hospital fighting for my life because of their ignorance, I was coughing up blood because of COVID induced pneumonia and I was in the edge of my death bed.. they gave me some experimental anti viral meds and it was almost like magic how fast got better COVID wasn't a joke I'm still on anti depression meds because of how this effected me mentally..
I had covid 2x and, like most who get this flu, I am fine. I took antihistamines when fluid developed in my lungs and that prevented pneumonia. Disease is part of life, I knew this, & thus I have no psychological scars.
The median death age is 80. Not a reason to shut down the country. Our ancestors kept going through far worse.
@@sanniepstein4835 Wana know something crazy? Immune systems are different and if one of the strains of COVID had a mutation it'd could be as bad as the plague, and your ancestors have almost been wiped out several times to pandemics do your research lmao
The more antibiotic-resistant a bacteria is the more effective phage therapy tends to be gainst it and vice versa.
Ok, when I clicked on this video, I thought it was going to be about MRSA.
So, I guess you'll have to do a video on the OTHER bacteria that, at least according to the CDC, WILL be the bug that takes out the human race!
I love the irony here, the amount of species on the brink of or are extinct because of humans and an itty bitty bacterium could balance the books, go nature you badass
As long as it wipes out humanity and not animals nothing much will be lost
Research is being done into Bacteriophages for Yersinia Pestis which should be interesting.
Bacteria is plural, the plural of bacterium.
I'm just gonna stay home and look out my window👀
Well that was a little ray of sunshine to watch.
You really have to stop being so cheerful and happy about these subjects. I mean... really now!
(end sarcasm here...)
Gee thanks Simon. I won't sleep. Ever again...
I didn't think you could use virus and bacteria interchangeably
Holy Shit! I can't believe there's a Fact Boi channel I didn't know about!
And I watch the Simon Whistler show, so know the surprise is real.
Ikr. How did this one slip by me? He must have came up for air between recording of all the other ones and decided there was still a few more minutes in the day for him do another channel.
Humanity is horrible. Where’s a species ending plague when you need one?
This was, I believe, the premise behind the 1970s Survivors TV series ..., though there were survivors from the disease in that case
Not sure this is the best channel to post this video.
Another Simon channel? How many does he have? I swear I've seen 5 different channels
Anit biotic resistant bacteria: hahahah i will conquer this world
Raw organic honey: haa thats cute
I think Simon's next NEW channel should either be titled "Channel Generator" if not "Random Channel Generator" or CG/RCG for short... LmMFaO! ;) :P :o)
Kinda seems like drug resistant bacteria could be a candidate as the great filter.
The ability to build nuclear bombs seems more likely to me.
@@sogerc1 While either could do the trick, I think the biological weapon is more likely to actually get deployed... If for no other reason than it's a more stealthy way of destabilizing a great many systems.
And if a effective treatment is found by a terrorist group, I imagine they'd inoculate themselves, and freely release it as a weapon anywhere and everywhere they liked.
@@JeskaDax Maybe. People relly seem to want to kill each other.
@@sogerc1 why not both :D
@@feuerling And the 3rd and 4th, am I right?
That's quite a bad blooper at 2:39, when Yersinia pestis is called a "virus". The word "bacteria" from the title of the video isn't much better - it's the _plural_ of the correct expression "bacterium".