Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? - with Peter Piot

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  • Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
  • 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the deadly Spanish flu. How prepared are we today if another global pandemic should strike?
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    Peter Piot discusses the risk of another global pandemic in our interconnected world and discusses the shortcomings of the global response to the West African Ebola outbreak and, drawing on his experience combating HIV/AIDS, he will highlight the need to focus on prevention and preparedness for future health threats.
    Peter Piot is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a Handa Professor of Global Health. He is the first Chair to lead Her Majesty’s Government’s Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (SCOR) Board. He is Vice-Chair of the board of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Tokyo, Vice-Chair of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) board, Chair of the Global Burden of Disease Independent Advisory Committee and Chair of the King Baudouin Foundation US. He is a member of the board for the African Health Research Institute, in Durban, and the Public Health Foundation of India and a member of the Oxford Martin Commission on Future Generations. He was the Chair of the MRC Global Health Group and a member of the MRC Strategy Board. Previously he was President of the International AIDS Society, Chair of the WHO Ebola Science Committee and Chair of the European Forum for Forward Looking Activities.
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Комментарии • 1,4 тыс.

  • @SuperTonyony
    @SuperTonyony 4 года назад +731

    Hi, I'm from 2020. You're not ready.

    • @LOSTONITALL
      @LOSTONITALL 4 года назад +20

      I'm from 2034. We have no diseases anymore. But modern rap music is now used as toilet paper.

    • @danyboy1477
      @danyboy1477 4 года назад +5

      @@binixx you're a dumb pos

    • @SimonRichardMasters
      @SimonRichardMasters 4 года назад +1

      Hi. You are just arguing

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 4 года назад +1

      And already able to write and use the Internet.
      Smart baby.

    • @Eusantdac
      @Eusantdac 4 года назад +2

      So, they knew about this (not being ready) a year ago and nobody did jack #$%. Well, we honestly get what we deserve.

  • @markuspfeifer8473
    @markuspfeifer8473 4 года назад +1776

    Next existential crisis: algorithms develop cruel humor.

    • @stephanmarcus448
      @stephanmarcus448 4 года назад +16

      Wait till it starts to recommend clips from "Contagion..." And, just now, "The Stand."

    • @ahenathon
      @ahenathon 4 года назад +9

      Only if people do not know how algorithms works. They should. It is basic knowledge in this era.

    • @markuspfeifer8473
      @markuspfeifer8473 4 года назад +34

      Even worse horror scenario: some people don’t get jokes anymore

    • @larjkok1184
      @larjkok1184 4 года назад +3

      Markus Pfeifer
      I thought jokes were meant to be funny.

    • @ahenathon
      @ahenathon 4 года назад +6

      @@markuspfeifer8473 Clowns are scary and sad. It is the real horror when they are gathering in packs.

  • @RantzBizGroup
    @RantzBizGroup 4 года назад +1566

    It turns out that we were NOT better prepared...

    • @maxheadrom3088
      @maxheadrom3088 4 года назад +52

      Scientifically I think we are ... the problem is that with the rise of nationalism and anti UN and other global governance agents the response by governments is slower.

    • @RantzBizGroup
      @RantzBizGroup 4 года назад +11

      @TheBrabon1 Yeah, those Obama years were great...

    • @procrasti86
      @procrasti86 4 года назад +17

      @@chrimony That was obviously sarcasm by @RantzBizGroup. Also I find it hilarious how Obama got a peace prize despite ongoing wars in the middle east

    • @ThePinkus
      @ThePinkus 4 года назад +10

      @@maxheadrom3088 Scientifically You can have knowledge, analysis and perhaps scenario assessment, preparedness is not within the scope of academic science since it is about developing and adopting strategies (national and global), and preparing the resources and the logistics for the effort that those strategies entail.
      China activated and contained the epidemic.
      S.Korea was prepared.
      Italy was not prepared.

    • @thekaiser4333
      @thekaiser4333 4 года назад

      Rantz - Why?
      Couldn't you hamster enough toilet paper?

  • @tmhh474
    @tmhh474 4 года назад +632

    RUclips really has the best sense of humor putting this in our recommended

  • @joshuahertz4108
    @joshuahertz4108 4 года назад +1269

    RUclipss algorithm has absolutely zero chill.

    • @riloh58
      @riloh58 4 года назад +6

      It gives zero pandemics.

    • @vellexander4422
      @vellexander4422 4 года назад +8

      This popped up for me as well -- Now I've watched quite a bit of this channel over the last year or so, but this was just the best to see on my feed.

    • @andygaras
      @andygaras 4 года назад +1

      Hahah

    • @ImaginaryMdA
      @ImaginaryMdA 4 года назад +1

      You can say that again!

    • @ant7699
      @ant7699 4 года назад +1

      Lol

  • @riza8541
    @riza8541 4 года назад +814

    Are we ready for the next Pandemic?
    Arrested Development Narrator: "They were not"

  • @richhagenchicago
    @richhagenchicago 4 года назад +208

    "A new Spanish Flu type epidemic would cost trillions" - how prophetic.

    • @linmal2242
      @linmal2242 4 года назад +3

      @@shooting4star2023 Interesting that you only got 4 likes, and one of them was mine! You mean fiat money can't buy it, but the Fed et al will keep printing. To quote Buzz - 'To infinity and beyond!'

    • @nawnaw4709
      @nawnaw4709 4 года назад +5

      @@shooting4star2023 you dont know how money works...this is debt money that should be paid.

  • @clivemathieu9386
    @clivemathieu9386 4 года назад +163

    Watching in quarantine

  • @canturgan
    @canturgan 4 года назад +242

    The positive from this is that unlike wars, politicians will die too. That helps them to focus on a course of action.

    • @jpe1
      @jpe1 4 года назад +20

      canturgan I’m not so sure politicians think that they themselves can die from this... being a politician means believing that the rules don’t apply to you, so I suspect most politicians believe themselves safe from infection, their concern isn’t that they may die, rather it is to make sure that fewer of their own constituents die compared to the constituents of their rivals.

    • @canturgan
      @canturgan 4 года назад +8

      @@jpe1 Yeah, so when one of them dies it will be a rude awakening. Trump must be near the top of the list, Corbyn too.

    • @jonaseggen2230
      @jonaseggen2230 4 года назад

      Maybe, if there is an afterlife. If not, they can't do shit when dead. From Guardians of the Galaxy, making of Stormbreaker:
      Eitri: "it will kill you"
      Thor: "only if i die"
      Eitri: "yes.....that's what killing you means"
      ruclips.net/video/k4ruDZ634Vs/видео.html

    • @Lux7355
      @Lux7355 4 года назад +16

      @@canturgan Unfortunately, Trump's such a miserable POS, even a _deadly pathogen_ would probably get inside him, then just go, "nope, I can't compete with this", and bail. The man is literally a social disease.

    • @speculawyer
      @speculawyer 4 года назад

      Not in the USA.

  • @EqualizerLNF
    @EqualizerLNF 4 года назад +150

    This aged well.

    • @rcpcash
      @rcpcash 4 года назад

      Exactly what I was going to say!

  • @NiteOfTheWorld
    @NiteOfTheWorld 3 года назад +42

    10:02 He explains the importance of masks in one simple statement: "people wear them not to protect themselves, but to protect others." In other words, refusing to wear a mask during a pandemic is not an expression of individual liberty but a reckless and selfish disregard for the health of everyone else.

    • @Tom_Quixote
      @Tom_Quixote 2 года назад

      Keep wearing your mask forever then. There will never be a "responsible" time to take it off, as you will always risk infecting others with viruses that they might be vulnerable to.

    • @NiteOfTheWorld
      @NiteOfTheWorld 2 года назад

      @@Tom_Quixote I'm baffled that I have to keep pointing this out. But here goes: Covid is not like other viruses such as colds or even the flu. It's much more dangerous and has the potential to overwhelm our healthcare facilities (as we saw at the beginning of the pandemic). So, no people don't need to continue wearing masks indefinitely. They should consider staying home from work if they're sick and perhaps getting a flu shot every year. I thought it would be obvious by now that Covid is not like other viruses we typically deal with. But I guess not.

  • @IanPaulSaligumba
    @IanPaulSaligumba 2 года назад +19

    Watching this video gives me chills 😱 Who would have thought that a pandemic really happened 1 year after this video was released 😱

  • @BradPitbull
    @BradPitbull 4 года назад +148

    2020 NEWS ANCHORS: NO ONE PREDICTED THE CORONA PANDEMIC
    RUclips ALGORITHMS: BLAME YOURSELVES FOR FOCUSING ON SELFIES INSTEAD OF SCIENCE

    • @User-lc4zo
      @User-lc4zo 4 года назад +2

      lol

    • @rolfs2165
      @rolfs2165 4 года назад +4

      Except RUclips only started promoting these videos again after everyone started talking about Corona.

    • @AndrewBlucher
      @AndrewBlucher 4 года назад +1

      Intelligence told them that this was coming ... in 2017, 2018, Jan 2020.
      The first case occurred in South Korea and USA at the same time.
      Trump said it was under control and did nothing. The Koreans went into overdrive and have it under control. USA has over 8000 dead as of April 5.
      See
      www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-intel-agencies-warned-rising-risk-outbreak-coronavirus-n1144891
      And
      thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488763-intel-reports-going-back-to-january-warned-of-coronavirus-threat

    • @cosmopessoa1556
      @cosmopessoa1556 4 года назад +1

      no ONLY the military LABS or the drug companies have the ability to predict the next virus attack in None European countries. Don't European always keep running around yelling the world is overpopulated and something must be done about it as their population keeps declining ?

    • @dnmurphy48
      @dnmurphy48 4 года назад

      This is just gibberish

  • @kristjanmartin9883
    @kristjanmartin9883 4 года назад +73

    Fabulous discourse. Thank you all for making this available to people of little means that are hugely curious, like myself. One of the best, especially considering our coronavirus problem in 2020.

  • @cmosc89
    @cmosc89 4 года назад +48

    Personally. I take this pandemic as a message to humans...you are not in control here, I can end you whenever I want, however I want - Sincerely Nature.

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia 4 года назад +5

      I agree! This virus would not have spilled over into humans had humans not encroached deep into the forests, captured bats, placed them in cages above/below other wild animals in close proximity, and sold them as food for people. Really, it was human cruelty to wild animals for profit and a disregard for nature that caused this. It's most likely that the actual person who placed that cage down where they did in a wet market or the person who hunted the animals were ignorant to the risks of microbial spillover events, they were probably carrying out a profitable business tradition out of necessity. It's also possible that a wealthier person or group who owned the business knew about the risks of spillover because of the 2003 SARS epidemic (also zoonotic in origin via bats) but makes good money from the bush-meat trade.
      We'll probably never know for certain, but either way, the moral of the 2019-2020 COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) story so far is to better educate *ALL* people around the planet to stop operating "wet" markets, enforce restrictions and bans on "wet" markets, expand public healthcare facilities globally (and make them affordable and stocked with reserve equipment for future pandemics), teach and practice sanitation and hygiene every day and encourage others to do so daily as well, and invest in plant-based foods to replace the widespread meat-based diet that so many people practice today.
      Unfortunately, some people, especially poor people in undeveloped/developing countries or remote areas, can't afford to eat an all-plant based diet or even a partially plant-based diet. To improve this situation and prevent _worse_ pandemics from starting in the future, perhaps all nations should come together and prioritize development of an international society that is dedicated to providing free and open access to quality education, healthcare, sanitation, and food to as many humans as possible (goal: 100% of humanity) while also taking active and drastic measures to curb the meat, bush-meat, and poaching industries' power. Additionally, we all need to come together globally and work *hard* to halt anthropogenic climate-change and global warming, a.k.a the destruction of human civilizations via ecosystem collapses and sea-level rise while also getting back to nuclear arsenal reduction (e.g. nuclear non-proliferation of the large military powers).
      The most probable and dangerous disasters that humanity will likely see this century are 1. More and Worse Pandemics, 2. Exponentially Worsening Global Warming and Chaotic Mass Migrations due to Sea-Level Rise, 3. World War III (possibly triggered by fascists/dictators coming into power due to mass migrations after sea-level rise scaring people into voting for hardliners/strongmen), 4. A Major Nuclear Weapons Exchange (either accidental or war-related, see risk #3), 4. More Pollution, 5. Serious Asteroid Impact, 6. Man-Made Superbug Pandemic due to Synthetic Biology/Genetic Engineering by a Psychopath, Terrorists, or Hostile States.
      All of these major global disasters are deeply connected and must all be prevented through immediate international unity, education, pooled resources, and encouragement/motivation to take action now. If the world fails to come together to tackle and prevent these major global risks, then humanity most likely will not survive past this century in any large numbers, or at all.

    • @PazLeBon
      @PazLeBon 4 года назад +1

      @@metanumia can say that about all livestock

    • @carlwessels2671
      @carlwessels2671 4 года назад +1

      @@metanumia All of those trends are causing the sixth great extinction which we should realize has the ability to make us extinct

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia 4 года назад +1

      @@carlwessels2671 Exactly! Unfortunately, the natural state of the neurotypical human brain is to be terrible at predicting the magnitude of future consequences that will result far in the future (>20 years or so) from today's routine and societally accepted/encouraged actions. Thankfully, with a lot of education and critical thinking reinforcement, the neurotypical human brain *_can_* be taught how to think far into the future and think rationally, logically, compassionately, introspectively, and to use the scientific method properly for constructive efforts.
      This is why education is so insanely important, we should have been making civilization-wide fundamental cultural and technological changes decades ago to properly deal with the upcoming ecological disaster. Anthropogenic climate destruction and global warming/sea level rise is truly an extinction level event for the majority of the Earth's living organisms (including humans), comparable to in severity to the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs, except it's been progressing so slowly compared to typical human timescale events that most people just totally underestimate it.

    • @linmal2242
      @linmal2242 4 года назад +1

      @@metanumia What you have said, Melody, was said after the WW1 and WW2 and so we got the League of Nations and the United Nations organisations. Yes they have done good work and helped, that is probably why the world population is now at 7 bill + approx; that, and no serious warfare, YET!

  • @dishdudetexarkana
    @dishdudetexarkana 4 года назад +9

    How I wished my country valued education. Thank you for all you do.

  • @dragoncurveenthusiast
    @dragoncurveenthusiast 5 лет назад +77

    This guy is doing some incredibly valuable work.
    Thank you!

    • @ChrisRedfield--
      @ChrisRedfield-- 4 года назад +17

      But we were not prepared.

    • @juandanielcastanierrivas9545
      @juandanielcastanierrivas9545 4 года назад +9

      Now we know he really was

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia 4 года назад +7

      @@ChrisRedfield-- In this lecture, Peter Piot clearly stated that a lot more work needed to be done globally to better prepare for the next pandemic. Some governments listened and prepared more after the 2014 Ebola outbreak, some did not. In fact, the US prepared for future pandemics back when Obama was president by establishing the Pandemic Response Group in the White House, but one of the first things Trump did when he was elected was to disband and shutdown the Pandemic Response Group, the selfish fool.

    • @philosophicalinquirer312
      @philosophicalinquirer312 4 года назад +1

      yup !
      We dont have a vaccine !!!!!!!!!
      14th April 2020
      1,923,210 SARS-CoV2 Coronavirus cases !

  • @tma2001
    @tma2001 4 года назад +92

    ends talk with "an epidemic 5000 miles away could affect us tomorrow"
    well that tomorrow (Nov 2019 first report) is now yesterday ...

    • @tim40gabby25
      @tim40gabby25 3 года назад

      Your comment was prescient - it's now August 2021..

  • @111jkjk
    @111jkjk 4 года назад +84

    Wonder what this fine gentleman is thinking now. 🤔

    • @u2dva
      @u2dva 4 года назад +10

      At least, he knows what is going on nowadays. And I'm sure he's not surprised.

    • @Skulker42
      @Skulker42 4 года назад +1

      He's probably thinking something like this:
      www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/expert-opinion/100-questions-peter-piot-lshtm-director

    • @fransiscozip1459
      @fransiscozip1459 4 года назад +1

      Heres one thing to consider...dont infect your smart friends...

    • @sacredweeds
      @sacredweeds 4 года назад

      Not so prepared as he hoped

    • @RexxSchneider
      @RexxSchneider 4 года назад +2

      He caught COVID-19. Here's what he thinks now www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19 "Let’s be clear: Without a coronavirus vaccine, we will never be able to live normally again. The only real exit strategy from this crisis is a vaccine that can be rolled out worldwide."

  • @pamelahomeyer748
    @pamelahomeyer748 4 года назад +21

    Thank you very much for this presentation. And a big thanks to everyone who is working so hard to keep the world safe

  • @ascendantfiction7220
    @ascendantfiction7220 4 года назад +230

    Narrator: No, in fact, they were not.

    • @DanielBrownsan
      @DanielBrownsan 4 года назад +3

      I read that in Ron Howard’s voice.

    • @pomponi0
      @pomponi0 4 года назад +2

      Who knows, maybe there won't be tens of millions of deaths this time.
      (I am very well aware this comment might not age well at all later on. I just hope I'm not wrong)

  • @orionstrongman2656
    @orionstrongman2656 4 года назад +117

    2019 video: 'We know today that economic impact of epidemics can be huge'
    2020: hold my Corona

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 4 года назад +6

      Use lime,...it's better that way, or add Tequila you'll get a Desperado, very nice on a hot day.

    • @Rosarium2007
      @Rosarium2007 4 года назад +6

      Nice subtle pun.

    • @camielkotte
      @camielkotte 4 года назад

      Humor. Cynicism. Irony. They are defence meganisms. Maybe our only sensible response next to the intensive care people going into PTS there is nothing we can do but lock up ourselves.

    • @MegF142857
      @MegF142857 4 года назад

      Good one.

  • @SteriCraft
    @SteriCraft 4 года назад +34

    Short answer : No.
    Long answer : Actually... no clearly no.

  • @tarotwithlyramoon
    @tarotwithlyramoon 4 года назад +180

    SPOLIER ALERT we didn’t learn a thing 2020

    • @n1k32h
      @n1k32h 4 года назад +1

      Bend over for the long thickness

    • @coonjamalay
      @coonjamalay 4 года назад +4

      @mark hart and we weren't ready

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 4 года назад

      Yes, dying your hair red is soooo, 1980's we didn't learn a thing indeed.

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 4 года назад +1

      @@binixx So are you m8.

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 4 года назад

      @mark hart It was the US.

  • @SWEmanque
    @SWEmanque 4 года назад +11

    The benefit of living in 2020 is that we can now answer the question at hand. Hindsight is a cruel thing.

  • @numbers9to0
    @numbers9to0 4 года назад +42

    Three weeks ago: We are well prepared.
    Today: Erm... no.

  • @USERNAMEfieldempty
    @USERNAMEfieldempty 4 года назад +12

    Thank you, Peter, for all the fantastic work you have done. A wonderful list of humanitarian achievements. You have lived a very worthwhile life, I think.

  • @lordloverockett
    @lordloverockett 4 года назад +17

    I can 100% confirm, we were definitely not ready!

  • @ExtantThylacine
    @ExtantThylacine 4 года назад +134

    Spoiler:
    The answer is 'no'.

    • @SlyNine
      @SlyNine 4 года назад +6

      @@binixx that's a slur, not an argument.

    • @pqrstzxerty1296
      @pqrstzxerty1296 4 года назад +4

      I stocked up in November 2018 after watching this video in October 2018.... Glad I did as in March 2020 in the panic buying I did not have to worry in getting toilet rolls. Now I am starving as got no food, and all I have is these sodding toilet rolls.

    • @carlwessels2671
      @carlwessels2671 4 года назад

      @@pqrstzxerty1296 What a maroon

  • @annettelinwood4647
    @annettelinwood4647 4 года назад +27

    All the armies in all the countries
    All the money spent on defence
    The enemy’s invisible
    And we are the transport

  • @m0L3ify
    @m0L3ify 3 года назад +5

    I was like "Let's get through THIS one before we worry about the next one!" ...and then I saw the upload date... 😬😭😭😭

  • @SamYoungnz
    @SamYoungnz Год назад +2

    Thank you so much for your work, Professor Piot, and thanks too to the Royal Institution for filming and communicating such superb lectures. It is always a pleasure - as a lay-person - to hear deeply technical research being so clearly conveyed.

  • @wellbi
    @wellbi 4 года назад +123

    RUclips: "IN YOUR FACE!"

    • @Muhammad-sx7wr
      @Muhammad-sx7wr 4 года назад +2

      Are we sure AI was not behind this all along?

  • @angelikaskoroszyn8495
    @angelikaskoroszyn8495 4 года назад +16

    "WHO was not fit for the purpose, it have to become more responsible"
    He knew it two years ago

  • @ericdebord
    @ericdebord 4 года назад +16

    This was posted one year ago and today it's happening. Wow.

  • @ethantaylor5425
    @ethantaylor5425 4 года назад +55

    The algorithm is a cruel and unapologetic mistress

  • @ciocki
    @ciocki 4 года назад +128

    Nope :( We also have the “its just like having a cold” demographic....

    • @uptown3636
      @uptown3636 4 года назад +17

      Denial is a powerful force that makes people believe and say very strange things indeed. If you find that demographic infuriating, just wait until a vaccine is developed. There will be people who will refuse to be inoculated because of conspiracy theories. As vaccines largely rely on herd immunity, those fools will hurt us all.

    • @meandnoother
      @meandnoother 4 года назад +16

      @Sasha Kruse Grim No virus of these proportions has ever roamed the Earth since the 1918 pandemic. Since then we have developed anti-viral medications etc., did you ever stop to think that maybe there's no vaccine for SARS and other viruses because there simply was no need for one? SARS, MERS, Ebola and so on were all contained locally and didn't spread globally like SARS-NCoV-2, therefore it was easier to contain. This virus has an incredible infectious potential, which is why it is such a big deal.

    • @meandnoother
      @meandnoother 4 года назад +13

      @Sasha Kruse Grim There's no proof of reinfection by this virus yet. There was one case where someone was infected, recovered and got sick again. But the virologists think that the virus was still in their system from the earlier infection.

    • @tricky778
      @tricky778 4 года назад +4

      @Sasha Kruse Grim what's nciv-19, I heard of covid-19 the disease and SARS-cov-2 the virus were all worried about but not nciv-19

    • @tricky778
      @tricky778 4 года назад +7

      @Sasha Kruse Grim should be careful about claiming reinfection, it can be the same infection in different tissues or an over sensitive test kit

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 4 года назад +17

    I stocked up in November 2018 after watching this video in October 2018.... Glad I did as in March 2020 in the panic buying I did not have to worry in getting toilet rolls. Now I am starving as got no food, and all I have is these sodding toilet rolls.

    • @talltroll7092
      @talltroll7092 4 года назад +6

      I hear they fry up nicely, add salt to taste

    • @inkey2
      @inkey2 4 года назад

      Could one possibly make a tasty casserole out of it.

  • @jonahansen
    @jonahansen 4 года назад +9

    So, in summary (55:30): the risk of future epidemics is increasing.
    - most important is the capacity for local, early detection and early response
    - the WHO is not "fit for purpose" and needs to become far more responsive
    - need to engage with people on the ground
    - governments and scientists need to share information in epidemics
    - need a system for developing therapies and vaccines where there is no market incentive.
    Too bad no one took this seriously.

  • @paulcoluccio5206
    @paulcoluccio5206 3 года назад +4

    His message, that we need global cooperation and prevention, rings true today.

  • @nacholibre4516
    @nacholibre4516 5 лет назад +76

    Who gives a video like this a dislike?! There is nothing to like or dislike about facts. Just absorb them.

    • @gtw4546
      @gtw4546 4 года назад +3

      Uhm . . .uhm . . .uhm . . .

    • @DoctorHver
      @DoctorHver 4 года назад +3

      coronavirus?

    • @patb7682
      @patb7682 4 года назад +1

      I like 👍 this comment!

    • @nertil9804
      @nertil9804 4 года назад +1

      Best comment I read

    • @maxheadrom3088
      @maxheadrom3088 4 года назад +1

      Lazy kids doing a school report?

  • @robertpoen5383
    @robertpoen5383 4 года назад +14

    39:00 "In epidemics what's crucial is act early."

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz 4 года назад +2

      Yes, true. Unless the WHO say specifically NOT to ban flights coming in from affected countries because it's 'xenophobic'

    • @AcornHillHomestead
      @AcornHillHomestead 4 года назад +1

      Exactly, yet here we are in 2020 months into the Covid-19 virus after all the deaths and warm weather is upon us, people have seemingly learned nothing and think its okay to relax social distancing and go to the beach, parks, forest preserves and just forget we have to suck this up to save not only our lives, our families and anyone else we come in contact with. What does it take? Are people really so weak and ignorant that they cant see they are becoming the bigger problem in combatting this virus? I cant believe all the protests about staying home while people are still dying from this virus. The people have the power and they just wont do whats needed.

    • @misdangered4326
      @misdangered4326 3 года назад

      @@mogznwaz Also the WHO - “No evidence that the virus can be passed from person to person“
      TRUMP - “Stop flights from China.”
      Idiots - “Boo Hoo Twump’s a waaaaaaacist!!!”

    • @orionred2489
      @orionred2489 2 года назад

      Go check your timeline of events. Even your strawman here shows Trump not listening to experts. The data showed that stopping all flights was a good idea, Trump's no fly wasn't full, and truly was based on his personal enemies list.

  • @user-xb2ws4qj3t
    @user-xb2ws4qj3t 4 года назад +54

    Please do not upload "Are we ready for the next world war" cause I don't

    • @psuyog
      @psuyog 4 года назад +2

      😂

    • @osotanuki3359
      @osotanuki3359 4 года назад +1

      They upload it, and then one year later...

    • @HD-mx5ci
      @HD-mx5ci 4 года назад +1

      @Heragoth 😅😂😂😂

    • @domsau2
      @domsau2 4 года назад +1

      Short answer: we are not ready at all, for everything: hungry, diseases, genocides, wars...

  • @PlasticComplex
    @PlasticComplex 3 года назад +3

    All these incredibly intelligent and talented people who have spent their lives working on these sorts of issues, almost entirely ignored when the time came to listen to them :(

  • @davidberinger2988
    @davidberinger2988 4 года назад +9

    An excellent talk to spend an hour of “social/physical distancing” time. So much of what he said was prophetic. But he also gives a fascinating historical overview of epidemics. If you’re short of time, skip to minute 39 and watch the rest. (But the whole thing is well worth your time; watch it twice!).

  • @LayneLovesThings
    @LayneLovesThings 4 года назад +19

    “In epidemics what’s crucial is: act early” Major Oof

  • @cmmndrblu
    @cmmndrblu 4 года назад +6

    Currently living the experiment that empirically answers the headline.

  • @MaeV808
    @MaeV808 4 года назад +78

    RUclips algorithm likes to rub to my face that none of us were really ready.

    • @ПетяТабуреткин-в7т
      @ПетяТабуреткин-в7т 4 года назад +5

      Remember not to touch your face though...

    • @MaeV808
      @MaeV808 4 года назад +2

      @@ПетяТабуреткин-в7т Will do, thank you. Currently in lock down. Groceries set up for pickup or delivery. Nothing has hiked my washing compulsions more than this crisis. Hope you and yours are safe and healthy.

    • @knusern666
      @knusern666 4 года назад +2

      AI that likes to torment us.. bad start

  • @ColinFox
    @ColinFox 4 года назад +4

    I hope all the people commenting on the YT algo serving this up now are actually WATCHING the video, and not just making smartass remarks. This is information that needs to be spread around!

    • @carolineblew9046
      @carolineblew9046 4 года назад

      No this is information that should have already been known...but people are too worried about their selfies and online bullying classmates and making a quick buck that everyone is oblivious...it disgusts me that everyone is caught so off guard when this has been a topic of science talks for the last few years

  • @nosuchthing8
    @nosuchthing8 3 года назад +2

    Every time we have a pandemic we always try to ignore it.
    But it never ignores us.
    600,000 dead and counting in America...

  • @pamelahomeyer748
    @pamelahomeyer748 4 года назад +12

    I am old enough to have seen some people affected severely by polio. My grandmother and father talked about what it was like with the 1918 flu but they were very young at the time so they were remembering story said they heard or talking about people they knew who had lost someone. My family was not affected at all we were lucky.

    • @adamsmith3413
      @adamsmith3413 4 года назад

      Pamela Homeyer Polio was pre Salk vaccine - 1950s. Most hospitals have old Iron lungs hanging around fro the time period.

    • @santyclause8034
      @santyclause8034 4 года назад

      My dad was crippled by polio before I was born, his youngest kid. He wore a caliper on one leg for the rest of his life.

  • @HugoHabicht12
    @HugoHabicht12 4 года назад +11

    We should have listen to that before 😷
    Thx for this speech and the informations.

  • @GoSlash27
    @GoSlash27 4 года назад +12

    Help! The RUclips algorithm has become sentient and has developed a snarky sense of humor!!

  • @Daniel-yy5tx
    @Daniel-yy5tx 4 года назад +10

    *waves sadly out the window to 2018 while self-isolating in 2020*

  • @carrot1269
    @carrot1269 4 года назад +3

    I went to this talk... never thought it would be so relevant

  • @TheSecretVault
    @TheSecretVault 4 года назад +6

    and we didnt eed his word for covid 19 and we are all over the place now. Govts are way too slow in reacting.

  • @johnthegreek7356
    @johnthegreek7356 4 года назад +32

    Is this supposed to be funny?
    RUclips: yes

  • @umbraemilitos
    @umbraemilitos 4 года назад +16

    "Gee. I wonder why this is being recommended in March of 2020."

  • @kateerowe
    @kateerowe 4 года назад +8

    This highly intelligent man predicted this to the letter.

  • @evilsdexter5261
    @evilsdexter5261 4 года назад +21

    it's cool, the world values 100x more a football player than a researcher... we totally deserve it

    • @asicdathens
      @asicdathens 4 года назад +4

      I read in a Greek news site that a Spanish biochemist spoke to the media about a possible cure and said I'm getting paid 1800 per month. Go to Ronaldo and Messi that get a million per month for a cure

    • @PazLeBon
      @PazLeBon 4 года назад

      not all WE

  • @gemtree7913
    @gemtree7913 4 года назад +4

    We think we are so advanced with all the technology, research facilities and education. And we can’t even protect the healthcare workers nor the general public with enough PPE’s.

    • @PazLeBon
      @PazLeBon 4 года назад +1

      WE could. Tories don't

  • @northofyou33
    @northofyou33 4 года назад +7

    The economic impact of COVID-19 is going to be insane. I'm deeply concerned.

  • @LeoStaley
    @LeoStaley 4 года назад +8

    Well, whoever ignored this guy is to blame.

  • @angelainamarie9656
    @angelainamarie9656 4 года назад +10

    I also came here to say NO.

  • @1337Jogi
    @1337Jogi 4 года назад +8

    This video got a huge boom on clicks. One could say it got....
    .......viral.

  • @geetarwanabe
    @geetarwanabe 4 года назад +2

    Frustrating that no leaders ever listen.

  • @CrimeaRiver
    @CrimeaRiver 4 года назад +17

    Oh good, the algorithms are waking up...

  • @GoogleAccount-zu8yp
    @GoogleAccount-zu8yp 4 года назад +2

    Loved working with this guy.

  • @davidgiles5030
    @davidgiles5030 4 года назад +10

    Never forget that trump fired the entire pandemic response team in 2018.

    • @garyedwards5345
      @garyedwards5345 4 года назад +3

      Never forget that America isn't the only country in the world, and every country has been effected, pandemic team or no.

    • @dummkompf
      @dummkompf 4 года назад

      @@garyedwards5345 point is that America would've been better prepared if Trump wasn't such a piece of shit.

    • @WasFakestCenturyAesthetics
      @WasFakestCenturyAesthetics 4 года назад +1

      He cut the NSC staff in half. He didn't just fire those people, and there are still scores of well-resourced professionals. Are you also upset there's no dedicated asteroid diversion team or zombie apocalypse team or pole shift response team?

    • @appletree6741
      @appletree6741 4 года назад +1

      911WasFake / 21st Century Aesthetics you do understand that unlike zombies pandemics are real? Only an imbecile cuts such vital assets when experts say (and reality confirms) that global risk is increasing

  • @boho3785
    @boho3785 4 года назад +12

    I’m from the future. NO. DEF NOT PREPARED AT ALL.

  • @LearningWithSuj
    @LearningWithSuj 4 года назад +4

    Look at the expression on his face in the thumbnail! He knows darn well we are not ready!

  • @TheCSue
    @TheCSue 4 года назад +8

    With travel & other factors speeding up the spread up pandemics & the length of time needed to spool up production of many desperately needed items, pandemics are "come as you are" events.

  • @sambaggins2798
    @sambaggins2798 5 лет назад +27

    Fascinating speaker. It was riveting!

    • @undergroundfamous264
      @undergroundfamous264 5 лет назад +2

      No he isn't.

    • @davidsabillon5182
      @davidsabillon5182 4 года назад +4

      @@undergroundfamous264 why wasn't he underground famous? Was there something you perhaps didn't understand?

    • @alexhiggins5911
      @alexhiggins5911 4 года назад +1

      Underground Famous - he made some good points though. Hi from March 2020

  • @charlestongren2860
    @charlestongren2860 2 года назад +1

    I found it very interesting and relevant to my searches and videos I watch.

  • @TheWorldsStage
    @TheWorldsStage 4 года назад +6

    In 100 years from now, some professor will be talking about how quickly pandemics can spread from planet to planet

    • @kassethaavik1508
      @kassethaavik1508 4 года назад +2

      In 100 years no professor will say anything

    • @cosmopessoa1556
      @cosmopessoa1556 4 года назад

      Western Abrahamic greco roman culture is linear in behaviour and thinking ,totally out of sync with the cyclical construct of the cosmos . Both cant survive together one will have to go. Will the cosmos survive ?

  • @comicmorphiclong-boxevolut4773
    @comicmorphiclong-boxevolut4773 4 года назад +2

    An example of why scientists should be trusted!

    • @nickieglazer33
      @nickieglazer33 4 года назад

      chris low thats a sweeping statement, if ever I’d heard one

  • @gordoncraig8238
    @gordoncraig8238 4 года назад +7

    Interesting. I see here that S. Korea had experience with MERS and learnt from it. So far with Covid-19, after 13 days they are the first to get some kind control of it. All the others are taking 30 days.

    • @daveirwin9988
      @daveirwin9988 4 года назад +1

      "All the others" dont have the discipline

  • @Feelthefx
    @Feelthefx 4 года назад +14

    1 year after upload: Absofuckinglutly not.

  • @marcosmota1094
    @marcosmota1094 4 года назад +3

    A lot of us are missing the point that Covid-19 has made those who wish to be informed, a whole lot smarter about these things. I've been backfilling my knowledge of old news for the last two years, but I don't think that SARS was going to come up on my radar at any time soon. I also did not know about MERS, but now thanks to *Covid-19* I am making up for my ignorance. Also, many of us are being introduced to the *RI* lectures.

  • @zohrebrown
    @zohrebrown 4 года назад +4

    59:40 is a warning about a big epidemic of a respiratory virus, almost as if he knew what would happen.

  • @SparkyLabs
    @SparkyLabs 4 года назад +3

    It will happen again, we don't know when....... just give it a year and a bit mate. He very accurately pointed out that we are not ready

  • @Shaftatsu
    @Shaftatsu 3 года назад +2

    This is 2021. We were not ready

  • @RubenKelevra
    @RubenKelevra 4 года назад +20

    2020 called: "No!" Then they hung up 🤔

  • @kierenbuckley370
    @kierenbuckley370 4 года назад +2

    seeing how we are currently in one and how we are dealing with it I would say no we were and still are not ready

    • @carolcohen2372
      @carolcohen2372 4 года назад

      This is the Army of the “12 Monkeys” attacking us for real

  • @gordonwiessner6327
    @gordonwiessner6327 5 лет назад +21

    Viruses constantly mutate and are not predictable. It can happen again.

    • @antoncomrade2043
      @antoncomrade2043 4 года назад +7

      Not can.Will. Just matter of time.

    • @babapapa8063
      @babapapa8063 4 года назад +5

      Anton Comrade were u involved in the covid-19 laboratory or were u just guessing

    • @tictacbee2317
      @tictacbee2317 4 года назад +5

      Its here

    • @uptown3636
      @uptown3636 4 года назад +4

      @@antoncomrade2043 Not will. Did.

    • @totalbrainfail1812
      @totalbrainfail1812 4 года назад +3

      @@babapapa8063 Pandemics are an certainty.

  • @Ragnarok540
    @Ragnarok540 4 года назад +1

    Hopefully this time people will remember and act accordingly...

  • @DoubleThinkTwice
    @DoubleThinkTwice 4 года назад +5

    That has aged well

  • @jonathanmarshall44
    @jonathanmarshall44 4 года назад +1

    This is why it's important to listen to the expert scientists folks

  • @verysurvival
    @verysurvival 4 года назад +8

    So CoVod-19 was as predictable as the sun coming up tomorrow. Don't let politicians get away with saying it was not predictable.

    • @tentringer4065
      @tentringer4065 4 года назад +2

      We get the politicians we deserve.

    • @arostwocents
      @arostwocents 4 года назад +1

      America is shaming itself with what it's doing to its workers right now.

  • @ThisIsJoe07
    @ThisIsJoe07 2 года назад +2

    My god - I got chills running down my spine. “…a Coronavirus… bats happily living with it…” And a year later - bam

  • @scooby1647
    @scooby1647 4 года назад +9

    Turns out were really not.

  • @noahway13
    @noahway13 4 года назад +1

    I kept forgetting this was from a year ago. So current.

  • @tibchy144
    @tibchy144 4 года назад +3

    Italy left the room.

    • @shookreeseeree4
      @shookreeseeree4 4 года назад +1

      Jade..so too Trump..he left the room before Italy did..

  • @annmcnitt8749
    @annmcnitt8749 Год назад

    What a fantastic presentation. Thank you, Dr. Piot, for sharing your knowledge with us.

  • @ConkerKing
    @ConkerKing 4 года назад +9

    I guess we know the answer now.....

  • @simontay4851
    @simontay4851 2 года назад +1

    Its 17th of Jan 2022 when im typing this . 3 years later: No, we were not and still aren't. I keep asking myself: when will it be over, if ever. How many more years will it drag on.

  • @733eel
    @733eel 4 года назад +5

    Kilroy was here.

  • @midatlantic545
    @midatlantic545 2 года назад +2

    October 21st 2021 watching this on day 4 of my recovery from COVID-19. Sigh!

  • @notdaveschannel9843
    @notdaveschannel9843 4 года назад +3

    I haven't seen this yet. Nobody post any spoilers.

  • @nikmills
    @nikmills 4 года назад +2

    Good to hear a non-hysterical pre-pandemic pandemic lecture.