Predictions

Is the world prepared for a next pandemic or plandemic?

Here is what a few experts and other had to say.

"The likelihood of another influenza pandemic during the next 50 years is virtually 100%, but quantifying probabilities of mild, moderate, or severe events remains largely a matter of speculation because we simply do not know how pathogenic a new virus will be and what age categories it will preferentially attack."

"This is a critical point in our history. Time is running out to prepare for the next pandemic. We must act now with decisiveness and purpose."

"Nature will eventually again challenge mankind with an equivalent of the 1918 influenza virus. We need to be prepared."

"We assess that the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support."

"At some point a highly fatal, highly contagious virus will emerge - like the 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemic, which infected one third of the world's population and killed between 50 and 100 million people and President Trump is unprepared for such a pandemic."

"The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern. Are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no."

"Predicted the pandemic in a 1981 novel"

"In around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments and will suddenly vanished as quickly as it arrived"

"Released in 2011, the movie is about a fictional illness called MEV-1, which becomes a global pandemic after a bat spread it to a pig who spread it to a person who didn't wash his hands before shaking hands with another person. The fictional virus has a 72-hour incubation period and high fatality rate"

"From the vain enterprise honour and undue complaint, Boats tossed about among the Latins, cold, hunger, waves, Not far from the Tiber the land stained with blood, And diverse plagues will be upon mankind."