The earlier the warning of a jump to humans, the sooner global health officials can take steps to protect people by launching vaccine development, wide-scale testing and containment measures.
Anyone else not feeling optimistic?
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024
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I can't tell you the last time I felt optimistic.
1995
Possibly. That's the year I moved out of my parents' house.
If you are constantly pessimistic, spending so much time on places like Lemmy is probably at least part of the problem.
I have been constantly pessimistic since 1977.
Do you have a website link for someone who constantly attacks a person who isn't talking to them?
Because I'm getting really tired of you harassing me.
I'm not attacking you, I'm offering you up a respite for your mental health. We all need it sometimes.
I do not believe for one second after all of the previous times you've treated me like shit that this comes from a place of genuine concern?
Also, because I'm not a religious person, I listen to mental health advice from doctors. Where did you get your psychology degree from?
I have lots of reasons that I am critical about how you use your intelligence, but I assure you I hold no ill will towards you.
Where did you get your psychology degree from?
Nowhere, which is why I linked to a Harvard website.
I assure you I hold no ill will towards you.
Sorry, you've proven otherwise.
Nowhere, which is why I linked to a Harvard website.
Then keep your mental health advice to yourself. I have no interest in it. This should be your cue to go away and not give me advice I didn't want.
In fact, if I ever want your advice on anything, I'll let you know.
Otherwise, my reaction from now on will just be to repeatedly tell you to go away and stop harassing me.
Sorry, you’ve proven otherwise.
If you feel that way, then I'm sorry for giving the wrong impression. But I assure you it's not the case.
Otherwise, my reaction from now on will just be to repeatedly tell you to go away and stop harassing me.
The better way to get me to stop responding to you is to simply not respond to me; I'm not going to respond to the same post over and over again until you respond. If we are having a back-and-forth, I would hardly call that "harassment."
Go away and stop harassing me.
That's okay, it will clearly be fake just like COVID and it will also be over in a few months like Elon predicted about COVID and you can fix it with horse paste and a UV light up your ass, so you don't need a mask or anything like the COVID vaccine that killed everyone who got it within a year, as predicted.
It depends when it launches and goes… viral (sorry..). If there’s a dem in office, it’s a real pandemic and we aren’t doing nearly enough and 10,000 people are dying every second, you lib monsters!! If it’s a repub in office it’s fake news poopvirus and why are you trampling on my poopeating freedums??
I'm sure we will take all the lessons we learned with the COVID pandemic and apply then to this new threat.
Lol.
Learning #1: people are dicks
Okay, lfg!
I’m so excited for us to have two simultaneous pandemics.
Don’t we have a bird flu vaccine already though?
What do you think the odds are of us getting people who refuse to take the Covid vaccine to take the bird flu vaccine?
Unvaccinated people become mutation factories and the disease mutates so that the vaccine is no longer effective, that's why it's important to have everyone vaccinated to prevent the outbreak from worsening.
If only 1/2 of people get the vaccine, we're fucked.
I firmly believe when it comes to serious medical issues like this, personal freedom of choice can just go fuck itself.
You don't want to be vaccinated? Too bad, we'll tie you down and give it to you anyway.
I think H5N1’s 50% mortality rate would do most of the heavy lifting on that front, but people are dumb. Who knows.
How much would it mutate before it was through getting through those people to the point that the vaccine loses effectiveness? They're a danger to us too.
I don't have one. Do you?
Viruses evolve, some quite quickly. The flu isn't the fastest (looking at you, HIV), but it's up there. Over time, existing vaccines train your body to fight something that doesn't quite match what's in the wild (i.e. efficacy goes down with time). That's why there's a different seasonal flu vaccine every year.
They create flu vaccines on a yearly cycle, and a pandemic can kick off in a matter of weeks and months, so if it doesn't match the preplanned cycle, they'll have to invest more resources to creating the most up to date vaccine off-cycle.
I think similarly to a regular flu jab, there's probably not one for this variant yet.
I was wrong, there are actually two vaccines ready to go if need be
That's good to know. And if it is needed, we'll be in for another self-selected culling of anti-vaxxers.
I don't know if it's like other influenza vaccines, but their effectiveness could be a lot higher. That might be easier when we're just talking about one specific strain. I don't really know enough about the science.