Beta-males stick with the women and don't want to know the obvious appearance that the kids aren't theirs, because they need the sex (can't seek out younger females in Westernized culture) and they want the family.
Eric S. Raymond is very much into female empowerment (wants them to carry guns, admires smart, strong females, etc) and he has at least a 150 IQ, so you could start with his insights (really you widen your perspective by reading Eric's writing and his comments in the comments section of each of his essays):
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aesr.ibiblio.org+hypergamyThe society has gone bezerk because the socialism destroyed the women, which thus destroyed the men:
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/10/01/what-socialism-destroyed-govt-shutdown/http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/05/05/birth-rate-declines-with-higher-taxes-is-hollywood-to-blame-for-divorce/http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/06/14/economic-decline-returning-marriage-to-historical-norms/Women are hormonally unstable (that is a medical fact), hypergamy driven. Men drive the production, responsibility, and structure of the economy and society. It was the castration of men by the State that destroyed Western civilization.
I am not saying there are not very smart females, but this doesn't change the statistical reality that women primarily exist for child rearing. I would want my daughter to achieve as much as she wants to, but ultimately unless she follows
the false life plan, she would most likely be happiest if she had a child in her 20s to have her own family.
También, Adios Todos Amigos.
Edit: Bill Gates has been trying to end the population growth in Africa, and is all part of the plan to westernize females all around the world in order to castrate men and put the power in control of the elite who control the political economics. And so where are their men to protect them? The brown and black races have very weak men who are irresponsible and that is probably a primary reason their economies suck and will always suck until their men learn to be industrious and responsible. Western men are responsible and industrious because we had harsh winters and had to be, in order to survive.
Really unless you understand what I am saying about decentralization and about not turning women into Frankenstein by tempting them with all the power of the State as temptation they can not resist to destroy men (and themselves), then we will just be forever hamsters on the wheel.
I hope you swallow the red pill w.r.t. to the feminist propaganda and culture you've been taught in school. My mind was polluted with that nonsense up until about a decade ago, but I really didn't make the leap until I read Eric S. Raymond over the past 2 years (and also the Dark Enlightenment, realize in the free market women are much more vulnerable then they need men). Please read Eric S. Raymond and bring yourself up to speed on the facts. He was formerly a feminist sympathizer but the facts caused him to wake up.
I agree that that economic collapse and overpopulation could lead to worsening squalor increased contact with infected animals and increased chance of a pathogen jumping the species barrier. If economic collapse and downturns occurred cyclically that could introduce a cyclic increase in jump probability and the Poisson distribution would not hold.
However, all that would mean is that there would be times of increased risk of a pandemic and times of lesser risk. A higher probability is no guarantee that such a pathogen will jump. The Jump itself would still be a random process. It seems ridiculous to me for anyone to claim there is definitively going to be a pandemic in 2018. The only way to know that with certainly would be if you were the one introducing the pandemic.
Edit#2: nothing in this Universe is perfectly random or perfectly independent events, i.e. 100% disorder doesn't exist (2nd Law of Thermo assures us it is globally trending to maximum). This is why Poisson distribution is only an approximation in some limited contexts. What appears to be random is simply entropy that is beyond your frame-of-reference. For example, quantum entanglement and other quantum effects appear to be random, but this is because our frame-of-reference is limited to our observation tools based in the limits of the speed-of-light, Plank's constant, and the Heisenberg effect, i.e. you can't be omniscient in real-time because you can't perceive everything everywhere instantly due to the propagation delay of light (and this is why Armstrong's huge historical database is able to see correlations that seem random to you). As Armstrong has so eloquently summarized it (paraphrased), "that longer-term predictions are more accurate than shorter-term ones".