Was it one of the idiots intentionally drinking raw unprocessed milk to make a point?
this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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All the US cases and most cases worldwide are linked to people working closely with infected animals according to the article—no mention of raw milk.
It's like they're trying to start another pandemic just out of spite. All because someone told them not to...
They have to start a pandemic now so they can blame Biden for it and credit Trump for ending it.
Can you imagine something like human-to-human bird flu being "managed" by Ronald McDonald and his cronies?
He couldn't even do the very least thing right for Covid and that is far less dangerous. Instead, spreading nonsense about horse dewormer, bleach and sunlight...and early on, more concerned with "his" stock market numbers than anything else.
Human-to-human bird flu would be terrible under any circumstances; under Spanky it'd be far, far worse.
This erroneously assumes that practitioners of woo like raw milk drinking are all on the right. This is most certainly not true. And it's kind of weird to make it political.
It can only be a pandemic if there is a human to human transfer. Virologists say it isn't likely to mutate enough to do that. Still, if you can get it from a cow, will your pet dog be next?
Pandemic remix, round 2(or 7 depending who you ask) electric birdaloo
Does anyone have an opinion as to how likely this is to eventually turn into a pandemic?
As likely as any other flu, which is basically guaranteed. I doubt it will become a 2020-style shutdown though, purely because that would be unpopular
As likely as any other flu, which is basically guaranteed. I doubt it will become a 2020-style shutdown though, purely because that would be unpopular
It's not "basically guaranteed". H5N1 has been around for a while and was never really considered a serious threat before.
And a 2020-style shutdown would be the least of everyone's worries if this thing does blow up. The fatality rates in humans is around 40% or so. At that rate, you're talking about at the very least a complete breakdown of society as we know it, if not a full-blown extinction-level event.
Isn't it way more deadly than covid? Maybe that'll be reason enough to scare idiots into compliance?
Early COVID variants were more fatal than later ones even before accounting for resistances; we might reasonably expect that the variant that does breakthrough will be less deadly, if only because an extremely deadly virus tends to incapacitate the people who would otherwise be spreading it
And the government is now working with Pfizer and Moderna on an Avian flu vaccine.
Do you have a source for that?
Thank you
No problem. It's making me concerned about the large number of doses for something that doesn't go human to human. Yet.
Around here when swine flu went through the country we basically lost the whole pork industry because the first priority was to eliminate the disease. Does the US want a pandemic to be named after them? Because it seems to head in that direction. I think Freedom Flu is a pretty catchy name personally.
Are the CCP and PLA up to more shit?
Do all the birds come from China?
Don't you mean the WHO? How else are they going to get their next $50 billion?