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This is seriously the dumbest and probably most preventable timeline. Well, except for all the goddamn idiots and apathetic people in the country.
Sigh.
Username checks out.
People confusing this with COVID might be in for a surprise because if this becomes a human pandemic it will likely be much worse.
Agreed. Maybe if we didn't have so many goddamn Republicans, especially with power and platforms. Even under Kamala, it'd be bad, but with these chucklefucks in charge right now...
The difference being that Covid took a scientific breakthrough to make a vaccine for (as various factors about the virus were unprecedented) while flu variants are very much a known thing as far as virology goes.
The feds already have a reserve of human-safe H5N1 vaccines, the only thing preventing them from using that when SHTF is ideology. It will be both completely prepared for and completely preventable.
You think we'll have enough?
Fascists are actively slashing funding, firing experts, cutting programs. Research labs are currently in shambles. The future secretary of health is a fucking anti-vaxer.
You thought covid was bad? We're going to experience a pandemic with no government action first hand.
assuming the strain used in that reserve will be effective against whatever variant makes a breakthrough to humans. note that current H5 vaccine candidates are determined based on animal studies and a variant that jumps from an animal to a human might show substantial variation that we could need to change the strain in the vaccines. it would be faster than before thanks to mRNA vaccines but I would think that even just within the USA, a sufficient roll out with an updated vaccine would at best take a couple months assuming people would be willing to get vaccinated. Between the antivax people in US and parts of the world not receiving vaccine quickly enough, there would be ample room for such a H5 to take hold and have devastating effects. Covid could still seem like a walk in the park despite having mRNA tech ready to go now.
After fucking it up on a global pandemic there were people attacking the Capitol to defend him. He's just trying to repeat that achievement.
Aw shit, here we go again.
Calling it now: we have another pandemic during Trump's current term.
Conspiracy theorists will go "isn't it weird there's always a pandemic while trump is president, must be the Democrats/Jews/Illuminati/"The Regime" controlling everything, Plandemic am a right?"
Couldn't possibly be Trump removing all safeguards against pandemics...
When it's in California, it's "God's wrath", when it's under Trump, it's "just a thing that happens, nothing to be done."
You sound like Jack Nicholson in the Witches of Eastwick.
And to the rest of the world, it will be the "Trump Pandemic".
The second trump pandemic. We already had a "trump pandemic."
I hope it will be called "Trump plague" or something this time around.
"Trump Flu 2" to emphasize this is happening AGAIN
Trump pandemic 2:The Flu Boogaloo
Up next repealing regulations preventing farmers from selling downer cows. Can't afford not to sell infected meat. Grocery prices are already too high. What could go wrong?
Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk ...
It's all fun* and games until there's human to human transmission.
(*Darwin award "fun")
Dairy farmer here, who fought this crap off when we still didnt know what it was.
Bird flu contaminated raw milk in cats, yeah it will kill the shit out of them. Its what helped us figure out what it was in the first place. Nothing confirmed so far as humans being infected from consumption that i am aware of currently, but i personally wouldnt try it.
The dairy workers that got bird flu. It was pinkeye that popped positive for h5. Probably splashback from either milk or fecal. It wasnt really a big deal other than conjunctivitis sucks.
But if you drink raw milk, you are playing russian roulette as patient zero at this point. Dont do it.
There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it's not terribly unlikely.
Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It's weird reverse psychology with raw milk.
Maybe Idiocracy won't happen. The stupid ones should wipe themselves out in a pandemic. We just need to wait for the right one.
Idiocracy is trash for babies, up your socially critical media game.
The first pandemic is still killing disabled people.
Also was just found to be infecting rats for the first time ever documented.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.
Moo Flu.
Trump flu.
The price of beef is about to go the way of the price of eggs.
Down, right?
Down, right?
Bird flu for the meats, tariffs for everything else (and probably affecting meats as well). I wonder how this will affect our food supply during Great Depression II compared to the dust bowl and tariffs in the first one.
Hopefully we don't have the dust bowl as well, but I do wonder how prices for staples like rice and beans might go up if the meat and dairy supply is tainted....
Surely some rich republican ranchers can get Trump's attention...
I’m back on the carnivore diet because it’s been really the only thing to help with my long-covid that has been on my ass ever since the pandemic started.
And now this is going to make that harder.
The same guy I hold responsible for my long-covid is going to get me fucked up yet again. How’s that for irony?
Just do this: