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Kind of zen tbh. Not because it's not bad, but more because there's nothing I can do about it atm, and it's hard to accurately evaluate the risks involved. If cases start getting reported near me, I'll probably start wearing a mask in public spaces.
I know someone that isn't worried about future pandemics because of the success of mRNA vaccines with covid, but that seems too optimistic to me.
Stop supporting animal agriculture completely so you can avoid the risk of future pandemics entirely as having animals bunched up in filthy slaughter warehouses is not sanitary proven by the fact they use antibiotics.
Take the 30 day pledge to take better care of your health.
The first working Covid vaccine was developed around the same time most countries officially started locking down if I recall. mRNA vaccines definitely proved how fast we can accomplish this. I know the US at least was also heavily investing into vaccines for bird flu already since they deemed that to be the next threat.
Either way, I’m with you on the zen thing. It’s hard to worry, but given how fast our tech works now I’m not super freaked about it. Honestly I’m more worried about the government not letting me take the vaccine.
Lockdown was in the spring of 2020.
The first covid vaccines started being administered in very late December 2020, but were initially in limited supply and were given to first responders and health care workers first, then priority was given to the immunocompromised. The vaccines weren't available to the general public until early March 2021, almost a year after lockdown.
In that first year, about 650,000 Americans died of covid - about one in every 500 people.
There is a strategic stockpile of a bird flu vaccine, so no.
I'm kinda fear-and-doom burnt out TBH.
Yes. I don't know what to do about it on a personal level, but H5N1 is more deadly than Covid and seems pretty much guaranteed to get loose and wreak havoc.
I think Covid gave us the idea that we can have a big pandemic but things can continue, I'll still get fed, nothing will collapse. Not every pandemic is like that.
No, because there’s still no significant human-to-human spread. All human cases got it from exposure to birds or drinking raw milk from infected cows. I won’t worry about it until it mutates into something humans can spread easily to each other.
I still mask in public spaces and maybe a deadly pandemic will be less dangerous than an undistracted project 2025.
Meh.
If I'm honest, I'm hoping for another lock down so I can just stay inside.
Gotta die sometime, right?
(not sure if /s or not here myself...)