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Most pregnant women and unborn babies who contract bird flu will die, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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Wow, so clearly the party who values the unborn will take strict and swift measures against H5N1 and advocate nation-wide for vaccination once it's out...
... right?
Steady on there with your blasé attitude to vaccines. We don’t need no herd immunity, and they cause 5g. /s
Best I can do is bitch about masks
on the contrary. if the woman dies you no longer have to worry about her getting an abortion. so the bird-flu is pro-life in that way.
Ah, shit, dude, you're right, I forgot that talking about one of the most traveled-to and traveled-from countries with 330 million people whose government is going to be an anti-vaxx disinformation superspreader, is likely to restrict vaccinations, and is therefore liable to make an H5N1 pandemic substantially worse globally is off-limits for discussion as long as the study in the article was performed by an Australian doctor. Me and my US-centrism, grr.
Do you count blood samples and vaccination as some kind of sinister "medical experiments"?
Vaccine trials are in fact medical experiments. Not sure where you're getting 'sinister' from
It's implied by the previous posters' word choice
Vaccines are very well understood, the reason for those exceptions is the very high complexity and sensitivity of pregnancies, there's no significant indicators of danger but they aren't willing to risk missing some unknown.
This is essentially the exact opposite of what you're saying. This is just collecting data on a group of women who only incidentally end up fitting the criteria. Nobody's selecting pregnant women to expose them to anything.
…there is no reason to try to change whatever bad is expected to happen to them. I can understand your point, but it doesn't sound humane to me