I oversimplified to illustrate the idea of the multipandemic—that is many pandemics could happen simultaneously, either deliberately or because of explosion of bad biohacking, like it happened with computer viruses. Many pandemic will interact non-lineary, competing for dissemination ways, but their interaction could make also situation worse, as they could potentiate one another.
Anthrax probably could be made human transmittable by means of genetic manipulation.
I wrote long article about it, now under send it to Risk Analysis
But then why have we not seen a multipandemic of computer viruses?
Mostly (I assert) because the existence of an epidemic of virus A doesn’t (on net) help virus B to spread.
Parasites which parasitize the same host tend to be in competition with each other (in fact as far as I am aware sophisticated malware today even contains antivirus code to clean out other infections); this is especially true if the parasites kill hosts.
I think a multipandemic is an interesting idea, though, and worthy of further investigation 👍
I think that there are a multipandemic of computer viruses, but most of them now are malware which is not destroying data, and they are in balance with antivirus systems. However in early 1990s loosing data because of virus was common, and any computer user has experienced computer virus infection at least once.
I think that there are a multipandemic of computer viruses, but most of them now are malware which is not destroying data, and they are in balance with antivirus systems.
Well.........… I don’t know about this. If it’s “in balance” and not actually destroying the hosts then it’s not really a pandemic in the sense that you were using above. (Where it kills 99.999% of hosts!)
I oversimplified to illustrate the idea of the multipandemic—that is many pandemics could happen simultaneously, either deliberately or because of explosion of bad biohacking, like it happened with computer viruses. Many pandemic will interact non-lineary, competing for dissemination ways, but their interaction could make also situation worse, as they could potentiate one another.
Anthrax probably could be made human transmittable by means of genetic manipulation.
I wrote long article about it, now under send it to Risk Analysis
But then why have we not seen a multipandemic of computer viruses?
Mostly (I assert) because the existence of an epidemic of virus A doesn’t (on net) help virus B to spread.
Parasites which parasitize the same host tend to be in competition with each other (in fact as far as I am aware sophisticated malware today even contains antivirus code to clean out other infections); this is especially true if the parasites kill hosts.
I think a multipandemic is an interesting idea, though, and worthy of further investigation 👍
I think that there are a multipandemic of computer viruses, but most of them now are malware which is not destroying data, and they are in balance with antivirus systems. However in early 1990s loosing data because of virus was common, and any computer user has experienced computer virus infection at least once.
“Nearly 1 million new malware threats released every day” http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/14/technology/security/cyber-attack-hacks-security/
Well.........… I don’t know about this. If it’s “in balance” and not actually destroying the hosts then it’s not really a pandemic in the sense that you were using above. (Where it kills 99.999% of hosts!)
There is a difference. We can reboot a computer, or reinstall an OS, but for a human it will be permanent damage or death.