Don't worry, as soon as Trump is sworn in the liberals will remember that pandemics exist.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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Society-wide veganism via massive livestock pandemic is going on my 2025 bingo card.
I'm gonna stop being vegan if everyone else does it!
I fucking wish but people would rather die
What if the eco-fascists saying Covid was the earth trying to cleanse itself were right?
I'd like to think mass extinction of livestock would help stop climate change, but then capitalism would just invent a meat cloning factory that would produce double the methane
It's actually kind of an issue right now with single-cell protein production. These companies are popping up with these very electricity intensive ways of culturing yeasts or bacteria for protein and if it takes off on our dirty grid, it'd result in a lot of CO2 emissions.
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Wait til it shows up in China then they'll acknowledge it and blame it on the Chinese.
Because it’s not coming from “bad country” and isn’t “effecting the gays” like monkeypox. So you alarmists should stop trying to control our rugged individualism and push vaccines onto us.
Without a doubt, if they do acknowledge it, it will be blamed on China 100% like the last time.
Doing a heckin' orientalism by calling it ASIAN Bird Flu and claiming the strain originated in Chinese geese populations
Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic
Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately
Years that now repeat forever, 2016, 2019, 2020 soon to be 2024.
It's like a dark Chinese calendar.
Oh I see its the Year of the Trump, that means next year is the year of Heather Heyer
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are the other states not testing?
cant wait for "it's just the flu" round two because it's literally a flu
it’s just flu
Isn't this the one that had like a 50% mortality rate?
in theory but if it goes human to human it could be more like 5 to 10%.
i mean real spanish flu time. this one would be bodies in the streets.
But you're coming into the office, right? 
Lazy ass dead people expecting handouts. Get off your deceased ass and work
Important to remember that there is already a vaccine for h5n1. It would need to be updated if it mutates to a point where human to human infections are consistent. It should be faster to get something out than it took for covid.
I obviously have no idea what it would look like if it does mutate to human to human transmission but I'm not an omega doomer about it. We cant predict when or even if a process like evolution will produce a certain result. The US and other countries will obviously let it rip so stay safe if it does.
Feels like predicting the next pandemic is like predicting the next recession at this point
Like how there's no need to because we're already in one?
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Isn't person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.
Once they hit the hog farms, because pigs are very close to us medically, an incredibly infectious human to human variant is just a matter of time.
it will be rare until it isn't
call it the KFC flu
Or the McFlu
hell yeah I like this
I don’t have a source, but I read somewhere earlier that a teen in Canada is in intensive care with it, and there’s no connection between the teen and fowl or livestock. There has been a couple of these in the last couple months. I like to think of it as the couple engine turn overs before you get the lawnmower started. There was also something about it infecting about farm I saw, which is tre bad because the pigs can host human flu and this one at the same time and possibly generate the jump.
I wonder about whether large swathes of the public are capable of doing quarantines or taking safety measures… I mean they’re definitely done with Covid, but if this kicks off it will be way scarier way fast with hospitals collapses and bodies rotting in houses, so maybe that’s enough. But honestly we’re so far into hyper reality mode that they also might not be physically capable of acting rationally or believing things that run counter to what they want to believe.
but if this kicks off it will be way scarier way fast with hospitals collapses and bodies rotting in houses, so maybe that’s enough
After everything, I would honestly just expect for reactionaries to claim its fake AI footage/images or whatever. Half this country threw a massive temper tantrum over simply being asked to wear a mask. I truly wish you're right, but I have no hope left for anything even approaching a rational response if this does evolve into another pandemic.
Health officials do not yet know how the patient was exposed.
“It is very likely that it is an exposure to an animal or bird or something in the environment,” said Henry, adding authorities may never determine how the patient became infected.
The teen was exposed to pets inside and outside the house, including dogs, cats and some reptiles but no birds.
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are other countries even acknowledging it
The HPAI H5N1 outbreak in cows has been limited to the US so far
The Australian government put $100 million towards H5N1 related measures last month, but that's more because they haven't done much about it because H5N1 isn't present on the continent (yet)
canada has a slightly different strain, but still H5N1, it is circulating there in bird flocks and showing up in wild mammals and now a human: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadas-national-lab-confirms-h5n1-hospitalized-teen
Imagining that as a ticker scrolling across the top of the screen in the mid game of Plague Inc
Welp... I'm literally building air purifiers for around my house and workplace.
search corsi-rosenthal box, comrades
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