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While pandemics were historically regarded as one in 100 or 200-year events, data predicts shorter periods between these devastating events, Gen Re's pricing actuary in South Africa told delegates at this year's Actuarial Society South Africa's Convention.

Research and Gen Re pricing actuary says the world is probably in for more frequent pandemics than in the past.While pandemics were historically regarded as one in 100 or 200-year events, data predicts shorter periods between these devastating events, Gen Re's pricing actuary in South Africa, Koop Lubbinge, told delegates at this year's Actuarial Society South Africa's Convention.

"I think we're talking one-in 25 or one-in-50 [years]. And the drivers behind that is the number of near misses that we've had in the recent past," he said, citing the SARS and MERS virus outbreaks in the early 2000s.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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Once in a 100 year event because they did not have controlled media

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We can have a pandemic every year if they decide to man make a pandemic like Covid. That’s pretty obvious.

Do they mean like this last fake one the world over, the Cult of Covid? Guess this means more fake 'vaccines' in the works too, wonder how that will turn out 🤔

This is what they are planning so they can keep killing people with so called vaccine

If Gain of Function bioweapon research wasn't being done, perhaps we wouldn't be being primed for more frequent ones.

Nothing to see here. They're definitely not planning another one.

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