Because health agencies pour tons of work and money into preventing their spread before the next major disease can hit us.
Or would you rather a modern Spanish flu pandemic kill half a billion people?
Or would you rather a modern Spanish flu pandemic kill half a billion people?
Time to go play Plague, Inc, again...
That's asinine. As if the choices are panicked fear or death. Do you think those public health agencies would be somehow less effective in the absence of fear-mongering?
My comment is not a question of there being public health threats. It's about the media coverage and the incessant need to sell fear in these times.
Yes, as any public health official will attest, public health policy happens best in a climate of unbridled fear and panic.