Yemen Has A Cholera Outbreak

The Horsemen travel together:

Seized by violence and teetering on the edge of famine, Yemen is grappling with another danger that threatens to outpace them both: cholera.

“We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world,” international health authorities said in a statement Saturday.

Anthony Lake, executive director of UNICEF, and Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, say that “more than 1,300 people have died — one quarter of them children — and the death toll is expected to rise.”

They suspect that is because Yemen now has upwards of 200,000 cases to grapple with, and that number is growing quickly — by a rate of roughly 5,000 cases a day.

“And geographically, it is expanding,” Mohamed El Montassir Hussein, Yemen director for the International Rescue Committee, told NPR’s Jason Beaubien earlier this month. “It’s not a small area. It’s almost the whole country.”

Hussein added:

“There is nowhere in the country you can say, ‘This place is better than another’,” says Hussein. “Every family is suffering from something whether it’s cholera or lack of food, having child soldiers in the family or having someone go join the rebels or the military. There’s been a whole collapse of the social life.”

After more than two years of civil war, Yemen’s health care system is at risk of “complete collapse,” a UNICEF spokesman told Jason.

It is easy when you have a lot of money to keep these things at bay. But imagine what these outbreaks will be like when there is no global public health infrastructure.

What we will see one day is pandemics following the same path K is following now. They will begin in the poorest areas, and then sweep like a wave across the globe, heading toward the richer areas. If we enter Great Depression levels of poverty in the collapse, which we could, then you will see poorer areas experience failures in plumbing and sanitation. When people have to choose between fixing the toilet and starving, they will choose to fix the plumbing later. Detroit will become an American Gaza. Then this will follow.

I still think a catastrophic collapse, followed by a swift pandemic at some point thereafter, and then a return to a Renaissance may be our most likely path. What is weighing the system down now is a lack of sense of community within the nation, a perception that the nation’s greatness is not a priority, and the political left.

Remove the rabbits in the cities swiftly, along with all their low IQ imports, welfare consuming followers, and LGBT acolytes, and the Renaissance would become something you could not stop.

It is not at all unlikely, given current trajectories.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory because it will lift the spirits of everyone, except the rabbits who are going to die