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An ounce of prevention: Now is the time to take action on H5N1 avian flu, because the stakes are enormous (theconversation.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really don't want to do this again

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

I worry that if mass graves due to covid weren't enough to jolt near-unanimous support for protective measures, little else will. Would of course love to be proven wrong :(

edit: for the sake of clarity / not accidentally misrepresenting things, graves would be dug up there (as per the article) with/without covid, but the number of bodies being buried in that manner went to ~7x the amount during non-covid according to the article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the frequency of deaths after infection would need to be an order of magnitude higher to move the needle on preventative measures. People just assume it won't effect them when 199 out of 200 people survive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.

Guess is time to start investing in the business of death and funerals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.

So, roughly in the ballpark of how many COVID has killed thus far (best estimate I could find was a little over 1.2 million). Even that didn't really motivate people, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The excess death metrics is a solid track of what people don't want to talk about and forget as it's painful, but I guess is human nature to bury these hard things rather than push them to get fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

With the boomers on the way out, the time is right whether or not we have another pandemic.

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