Covid-19: Are pandemics the new normal? - BBC News

Though scientists had warned the world was due a pandemic, no-one could have predicted the scale and impact of Covid-19. So should we expect more pandemics in the future?

The BBC's Mattea Bubalo explains.

Video by Mattea Bubalo, Laura Foster and Kate Forbes.

Graphics by Mel Lou and Terry Foster

[grahamhunt]

BBC predictive programing this is the new normal

[joesummerfield]

Very negative this pandemic is not the new normal and pandemics are not the new normal we always get through

[israeldiegoriverageniusth]

No to forced or coerced vaccines. End the licence fee.

[wissiwizard]

SAY NO TO THE NEW NORMAL. OLD NORMAL OR NOTHING.

[NowisEvollovetion]

You will only ever see what is classed as 'normal' in the world of man. As in the world of man everything is constantly changing. Change that only goes to prove that things are currently 'FAR FROM PERFECT'.

[dilippatel]

Luke 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

[VladimirOnOccasion]

"LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback"

[AldousHuxley]

Most of the psychopathic elite with be rotting in hell for eternity. Dont let them drag you down with them wake up!

[joehession]

This won't work for much longer, there's more people drawing their line everyday.

[masterm]

Yep they will keep these going over and over until we stop it

[DXmYb]

If pandemics are normal I want my freedom and I will die at 50 if it means it

[QwadLuzr]

Remember when people wanted to shut the borders early on but the BBC was only concerned about anti-Chinese racism?

[medusa]

It depends on whether you prefer to live just another year but to the fullest or live another miserable 20 years?

[d.jonsson]

nice try, I’mma have to say no to that one.

[QwadLuzr]

There's no crisis in hospitals that requires the outlawing of work, family and relationships.

[edwin_music]

With all due respect to the BBC this is the absolute WORST message to be sending to people at this time. I understand that some point in the future there will be another pandemic but this is an extremely depressing message to be sending to the world just as we found hope. I’m sorry but you are acting with great insensitivity. There are people like me, a kid with anxiety disorder and autism who has struggled and finally found hope, and now you are sending a message of sadness. I would like to quote my role model HM the Queen speaking at Christmas, “Let the light of Christmas, the spirit of selflessness, love and, above all, hope guide us in the times ahead.” I urge the BBC to listen to this message again and heed Her Majesty’s words, because honestly this sort of thing is quite shameful and it’s not the first time either. Frankly, you need to change, now. This is a very depressing message to a dangerously depressed world. I’m disappointed.

[SikanderG]

Animal farming is a huge contributor to pandemic risk. If more people go vegan and there are more restrictions put on animal farms, that will also reduce the risk.

[MSTL]

Bealzebub Broadcasting Corporation. "we've made the perfect storm". We WHO?

[jansprat]

We just had a second pandemic - Brovid 20 - starting last December. Thank god for the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine which is the only one that can address this particular strain.

[QwadLuzr]

Show us ANY footage from this pandemic that would justify the restrictions.