Sooner or later the world will end, perhaps with a bang, perhaps with a whimper. Perhaps it will outlive humanity, perhaps by then humanity will have moved to other worlds. and be screwing with their environments as we have with ours... who knows.
Though at the moment. the planet's giving us a bit of a fightback; this new disease originating in the Wuhan area of China, spreading its way around the world. Whilst there are just a few confirmed cases outside of China, how many other people have the virus incubating within them, spreading it around.
The thing is. to go fully global it doesn't need too many people infected. The right (or wrong!) people spreading it, flying from one country to another... it all spreads quick. Like at the end of Rise of the Planet of the Apes where the pilot is infected, spreading it at the airport to people who fly out to many different locations...
Realistically, it's probable that this virus will have a vaccine created for it before too long, and it'll end up being a bit of a footnote.
But what if it's not?
It'll make the forthcoming Brexit - in 9 days - seem completely insignificant!
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