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.
@@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.
@@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!'
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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 ?
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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!
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)
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
@@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.
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!).
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 :(
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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!!!”
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oct 24, 2018 55:30 "... and we all came to the same conclusion. And the conclusion was that the first thing that's most important... one, that there will be more epidemics, the risk in the world is increasing, but that the most important thing is the local capacity for early detection and early response. It's not the global response..." Feb 2020, Italy, after more than a month of warning, fails at the early detection and response and the epidemic goes out of control in Italy and now spreads to Europe. There was the knowledge, there was the warning, and still inertia won over alerting for early detection and anticipating the response strategy and its required resources...
There was no single route of Covid from Italy to the rest of Europe. AFAIK most affected countries had some business traveller or other bring it directly from central China. In western Germany, it got a nice kick start by the carnival season.
@@thomascrabtree Yeah, well, it would have spread anyway. I would have loved to hear him explain, how long time it takes from first infection, to the point where they declare it's a new virus. It takes weeks!
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 ?
I understand a lot of you are angry, mostly because of the title, but we really should thank people like him have been fighting against unknown diseases since long ago.
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.
You dont need to worry about blood types. The risk formula is Viral Count Exposure x Age x Pack Year History (smoking). In other words a 65 year old heavy smoking doctor working with infected people is basically doomed.
@@MrRugbylane GEE, THAT'S A COLD WAY TO MAKE A POINT! MAYBE AFTER THIS IS OVER, IT COULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THERE IS AN UNRECECNIZED CONNECTION? WERE ALWAYS LEARNING SOMETHING NEW
@@hillbillygirl3502 yeah, sorry for being so cold sounding. I dont dismiss the "blood type" question you posed. I was just trying to say that you dont need to look for sneaky risk factors when there are some BIG ones staring us in the face. On a side point, the most frustrating thing is that a couple of months ago, if Western Governments promoted the daily taking of vitamins A, D & C by our over 60s the actual final death toll could be reduced.
@@MrRugbylane THANKS FOR RESPONDING YAH YOUR RIGHT SOMETIMES WE GET SO WORKED UP OVER THINGS WE FORGET THE BASICS. WE SAY THINGS BEFORE WE THINK ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT TAKE IT? WE'VE ALL HAD TO BECOME SO HARDENED TO LIFE, JUST TO SURVIVE. WHEN PEOPLE ARE SCARED AND AND DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO THEY GET SOFT! WE LOOK FOR ANYTHING THAT MY EASE THE FEAR, FROM THINGS THAT ARE FAMILIAR TO US, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER WHEN YOUR AN IMPORTANT FIGURE PEOPLE LOOK FOR COMFORT IN YOU!!" WORDS OF WISDOM" NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDOUT, THEY'LL BRING YOU DOWN TO THERE LEVEL, AND BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE
It turns out that we were NOT better prepared...
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.
@TheBrabon1 Yeah, those Obama years were great...
@@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
@@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.
Rantz - Why?
Couldn't you hamster enough toilet paper?
Hi, I'm from 2020. You're not ready.
I'm from 2034. We have no diseases anymore. But modern rap music is now used as toilet paper.
@@binixx you're a dumb pos
Hi. You are just arguing
And already able to write and use the Internet.
Smart baby.
So, they knew about this (not being ready) a year ago and nobody did jack #$%. Well, we honestly get what we deserve.
RUclipss algorithm has absolutely zero chill.
It gives zero pandemics.
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.
Hahah
You can say that again!
Lol
RUclips really has the best sense of humor putting this in our recommended
same here
Right !
Yeah wtf
Ikr
I got recommended the movie "The Bat (1959) VINCENT PRICE" and "Contagious 1997 Lindsey Vagner full thriller" ?!
Next existential crisis: algorithms develop cruel humor.
Wait till it starts to recommend clips from "Contagion..." And, just now, "The Stand."
Only if people do not know how algorithms works. They should. It is basic knowledge in this era.
Even worse horror scenario: some people don’t get jokes anymore
Markus Pfeifer
I thought jokes were meant to be funny.
@@markuspfeifer8473 Clowns are scary and sad. It is the real horror when they are gathering in packs.
Are we ready for the next Pandemic?
Arrested Development Narrator: "They were not"
😝😝😝
Ron Howard would approve
Tom 😀😀😀
i love you
someone play frolic
"A new Spanish Flu type epidemic would cost trillions" - how prophetic.
@@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!'
@@shooting4star2023 you dont know how money works...this is debt money that should be paid.
Watching in quarantine
The positive from this is that unlike wars, politicians will die too. That helps them to focus on a course of action.
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.
@@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.
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
@@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.
Not in the USA.
This aged well.
Exactly what I was going to say!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Watching this video gives me chills 😱 Who would have thought that a pandemic really happened 1 year after this video was released 😱
Good for you
2020 NEWS ANCHORS: NO ONE PREDICTED THE CORONA PANDEMIC
RUclips ALGORITHMS: BLAME YOURSELVES FOR FOCUSING ON SELFIES INSTEAD OF SCIENCE
lol
Except RUclips only started promoting these videos again after everyone started talking about Corona.
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
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 ?
This is just gibberish
How I wished my country valued education. Thank you for all you do.
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.
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.
@@metanumia can say that about all livestock
@@metanumia All of those trends are causing the sixth great extinction which we should realize has the ability to make us extinct
@@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.
@@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!
Narrator: No, in fact, they were not.
I read that in Ron Howard’s voice.
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)
Thank you very much for this presentation. And a big thanks to everyone who is working so hard to keep the world safe
ends talk with "an epidemic 5000 miles away could affect us tomorrow"
well that tomorrow (Nov 2019 first report) is now yesterday ...
Your comment was prescient - it's now August 2021..
This guy is doing some incredibly valuable work.
Thank you!
But we were not prepared.
Now we know he really was
@@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.
yup !
We dont have a vaccine !!!!!!!!!
14th April 2020
1,923,210 SARS-CoV2 Coronavirus cases !
Short answer : No.
Long answer : Actually... no clearly no.
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.
I can 100% confirm, we were definitely not ready!
All the armies in all the countries
All the money spent on defence
The enemy’s invisible
And we are the transport
This was posted one year ago and today it's happening. Wow.
Spoiler:
The answer is 'no'.
@@binixx that's a slur, not an argument.
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.
@@pqrstzxerty1296 What a maroon
The benefit of living in 2020 is that we can now answer the question at hand. Hindsight is a cruel thing.
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.
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.
SPOLIER ALERT we didn’t learn a thing 2020
Bend over for the long thickness
@mark hart and we weren't ready
Yes, dying your hair red is soooo, 1980's we didn't learn a thing indeed.
@@binixx So are you m8.
@mark hart It was the US.
2019 video: 'We know today that economic impact of epidemics can be huge'
2020: hold my Corona
Use lime,...it's better that way, or add Tequila you'll get a Desperado, very nice on a hot day.
Nice subtle pun.
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.
Good one.
Wonder what this fine gentleman is thinking now. 🤔
At least, he knows what is going on nowadays. And I'm sure he's not surprised.
He's probably thinking something like this:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/expert-opinion/100-questions-peter-piot-lshtm-director
Heres one thing to consider...dont infect your smart friends...
Not so prepared as he hoped
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."
Three weeks ago: We are well prepared.
Today: Erm... no.
RUclips: "IN YOUR FACE!"
Are we sure AI was not behind this all along?
His message, that we need global cooperation and prevention, rings true today.
RUclips algorithm likes to rub to my face that none of us were really ready.
Remember not to touch your face though...
@@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.
AI that likes to torment us.. bad start
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!).
"WHO was not fit for the purpose, it have to become more responsible"
He knew it two years ago
Who knew?
The algorithm is a cruel and unapologetic mistress
Mmmmmm
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 :(
Who gives a video like this a dislike?! There is nothing to like or dislike about facts. Just absorb them.
Uhm . . .uhm . . .uhm . . .
coronavirus?
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Lazy kids doing a school report?
Nope :( We also have the “its just like having a cold” demographic....
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.
@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.
@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.
@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
@Sasha Kruse Grim should be careful about claiming reinfection, it can be the same infection in different tissues or an over sensitive test kit
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.
Pamela Homeyer Polio was pre Salk vaccine - 1950s. Most hospitals have old Iron lungs hanging around fro the time period.
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.
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.
I hear they fry up nicely, add salt to taste
Could one possibly make a tasty casserole out of it.
Please do not upload "Are we ready for the next world war" cause I don't
😂
They upload it, and then one year later...
@Heragoth 😅😂😂😂
Short answer: we are not ready at all, for everything: hungry, diseases, genocides, wars...
Currently living the experiment that empirically answers the headline.
“In epidemics what’s crucial is: act early” Major Oof
We should have listen to that before 😷
Thx for this speech and the informations.
I went to this talk... never thought it would be so relevant
*waves sadly out the window to 2018 while self-isolating in 2020*
I was like "Let's get through THIS one before we worry about the next one!" ...and then I saw the upload date... 😬😭😭😭
39:00 "In epidemics what's crucial is act early."
Yes, true. Unless the WHO say specifically NOT to ban flights coming in from affected countries because it's 'xenophobic'
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.
@@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!!!”
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.
it's cool, the world values 100x more a football player than a researcher... we totally deserve it
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
not all WE
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!
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
and we didnt eed his word for covid 19 and we are all over the place now. Govts are way too slow in reacting.
The economic impact of COVID-19 is going to be insane. I'm deeply concerned.
This highly intelligent man predicted this to the letter.
Loved working with this guy.
Is this supposed to be funny?
RUclips: yes
"Gee. I wonder why this is being recommended in March of 2020."
and now april 2020
59:40 is a warning about a big epidemic of a respiratory virus, almost as if he knew what would happen.
Help! The RUclips algorithm has become sentient and has developed a snarky sense of humor!!
Well, whoever ignored this guy is to blame.
What a fantastic presentation. Thank you, Dr. Piot, for sharing your knowledge with us.
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.
WE could. Tories don't
Frustrating that no leaders ever listen.
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.
This is 2021. We were not ready
Look at the expression on his face in the thumbnail! He knows darn well we are not ready!
I also came here to say NO.
Fascinating speaker. It was riveting!
No he isn't.
@@undergroundfamous264 why wasn't he underground famous? Was there something you perhaps didn't understand?
Underground Famous - he made some good points though. Hi from March 2020
I found it very interesting and relevant to my searches and videos I watch.
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.
"All the others" dont have the discipline
Oh good, the algorithms are waking up...
I’m from the future. NO. DEF NOT PREPARED AT ALL.
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.
This video got a huge boom on clicks. One could say it got....
.......viral.
like a virus
Get out ^^
Hopefully this time people will remember and act accordingly...
We could've been ready if the youtube algorithm has suggested this video in time....
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
This is the Army of the “12 Monkeys” attacking us for real
Oct 24, 2018
55:30 "... and we all came to the same conclusion. And the conclusion was that the first thing that's most important... one, that there will be more epidemics, the risk in the world is increasing, but that the most important thing is the local capacity for early detection and early response. It's not the global response..."
Feb 2020, Italy, after more than a month of warning, fails at the early detection and response and the epidemic goes out of control in Italy and now spreads to Europe.
There was the knowledge, there was the warning, and still inertia won over alerting for early detection and anticipating the response strategy and its required resources...
There was no single route of Covid from Italy to the rest of Europe. AFAIK most affected countries had some business traveller or other bring it directly from central China. In western Germany, it got a nice kick start by the carnival season.
What’s it called when someone says “I told you so” two years in advance? Oh, right, science.
@@steve1978ger Perhaps, but once you have community spread it's kind of too late.
TL:DR; China lied, people died.
@@thomascrabtree Yeah, well, it would have spread anyway.
I would have loved to hear him explain, how long time it takes from first infection, to the point where they declare it's a new virus. It takes weeks!
Fantastic speaker .congratulations Doctor Piot
In 100 years from now, some professor will be talking about how quickly pandemics can spread from planet to planet
In 100 years no professor will say anything
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 ?
I understand a lot of you are angry, mostly because of the title, but we really should thank people like him have been fighting against unknown diseases since long ago.
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.
Really appreciate this knowledge being given freely thank you 👍
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
This is why it's important to listen to the expert scientists folks
39:00 In epidemics, it's crucial to act early.
lost two great grandparents who were London cockneys.
My Grandfather was 6 months old, raised in Oxford.
Good day, Dr. Now with the coronavirus has anyone thought about blood types. Is it posable some blood types are more susceptible then another?
Good question! Hope it will get answered soon
You dont need to worry about blood types. The risk formula is Viral Count Exposure x Age x Pack Year History (smoking). In other words a 65 year old heavy smoking doctor working with infected people is basically doomed.
@@MrRugbylane GEE, THAT'S A COLD WAY TO MAKE A POINT! MAYBE AFTER THIS IS OVER, IT COULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THERE IS AN UNRECECNIZED CONNECTION? WERE ALWAYS LEARNING SOMETHING NEW
@@hillbillygirl3502 yeah, sorry for being so cold sounding. I dont dismiss the "blood type" question you posed. I was just trying to say that you dont need to look for sneaky risk factors when there are some BIG ones staring us in the face. On a side point, the most frustrating thing is that a couple of months ago, if Western Governments promoted the daily taking of vitamins A, D & C by our over 60s the actual final death toll could be reduced.
@@MrRugbylane THANKS FOR RESPONDING YAH YOUR RIGHT SOMETIMES WE GET SO WORKED UP OVER THINGS WE FORGET THE BASICS. WE SAY THINGS BEFORE WE THINK ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT TAKE IT? WE'VE ALL HAD TO BECOME SO HARDENED TO LIFE, JUST TO SURVIVE. WHEN PEOPLE ARE SCARED AND AND DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO THEY GET SOFT! WE LOOK FOR ANYTHING THAT MY EASE THE FEAR, FROM THINGS THAT ARE FAMILIAR TO US, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER WHEN YOUR AN IMPORTANT FIGURE PEOPLE LOOK FOR COMFORT IN YOU!!" WORDS OF WISDOM" NEVER ARGUE WITH AN IDOUT, THEY'LL BRING YOU DOWN TO THERE LEVEL, AND BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE
October 21st 2021 watching this on day 4 of my recovery from COVID-19. Sigh!
Were you vaccinated?
I haven't seen this yet. Nobody post any spoilers.
I kept forgetting this was from a year ago. So current.
1 year after upload: Absofuckinglutly not.
Every time we have a pandemic we always try to ignore it.
But it never ignores us.
600,000 dead and counting in America...
Viruses constantly mutate and are not predictable. It can happen again.
Not can.Will. Just matter of time.
Anton Comrade were u involved in the covid-19 laboratory or were u just guessing
Its here
@@antoncomrade2043 Not will. Did.
@@babapapa8063 Pandemics are an certainty.
Most people then died from complications of other diseases, and now the same occurs now.
"Never compromise not even in the the face of Armageddon" - Peter Piot
An example of why scientists should be trusted!
chris low thats a sweeping statement, if ever I’d heard one