Making America great again: the USA will be leading the world in new pandemics. By crippling the safeguards, removing science and news... because in chaos and death, dictators can continue to hold power over a fearful and panicked population.
It's a good thing we keep historically unprecedented numbers of live animals in historically unprecedented close quarters. The beef and dairy industry has made some great strides in ending the human race
A perfect time to get rid of the CDC and the NIH. Also, let's stop funding medical research. No sharing medical information that might make the ruling dumb shits look bad- thats treason.
Wonder if they have betting odds on another March outbreak and lockdown.
Yey! The American flu...
Good timing - we've got a President who has experience in handling pandemics.
Stop. Animal. Agriculture.
Its not hard.
As a dairy farmer myself, im paying extreem attention to all of this. Ive been paying attention to it since we found out about it a year ago. Our response has been absolute garbage and ill be one of the first to call out our absolutely shitty response. Im on the front lines right now. We have not dealt with this problem with the seriousness and attention it deserves.
That being said, this comment chain feels wierd. Like, the discourse im seeing is setting off real red flags right now for me. Im not so sure that lemmy is as secure as i expected it to be.
Im still here and will stay here, but something doesnt feel right about our conversation in this thread right now.
It's weird but you can't say what is weird or why.
You what's actually weird? Your comment goes on for three paragraphs and says absolutely nothing but somehow has 50 upvotes. That's very weird
Yeah you are right. Sleep deprivation is the only thing i can blame.
What are some of the best practices and precautions you yourself are taking or can take in this kind of situation? Must be rough though, I'm sorry.
Howdy, Podunk. Rednecks have to watch out on Lemmy.
There is some manipulation happening, my bullshit sensor has pinged more than once. There are also some folks that might be aliens or tankies or some sort of venomous communist/vegan you definitely wouldn't want to share a free love commune with.
How likely is it that blue rare steak would transmit H5N1, do you reckon? USDA study.
I hope you can figure out what's weird about it and share. It seems like a normal Lemmy thread to me:
Don't take the list above as any kind of condemnation; I do all of them all the time, too.
Eh i think it was lack of sleep and a false alarm of the ole spidey sense going off.
But yeah, for a minute there something didnt seem right. now that there are more comments, it all seems good again.
Yeah the comments are pretty rational
In response to an emailed series of questions, a spokesperson for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the agency still deems the risk to human health for the general public to be low.
For how much longer can we trust their pronouncements? All the US government departments are under the control of compulsively lying anti-science Nazis.
There is still a CDC?
Lalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you lalalalalalaalalalalaalalalala no such thing as viruses lalalalallalalalalalala it's just a cold lalalalalalalalalalalala vaccines bad lalalalalalalalalalallalalala your grandma lived a long life lalalalalalalallalalalala - RFK Jr
A vaccine for chickens exists, that was never required because it would restrict exports to certain countries; hurting profits.
Now we have permanent reservoirs of the disease in cattle and wild birds.
Note that Biden did allocate 1.8B in funding to deal with birdflu in humans over his 4 years.
So basically we had the Biden admin coasting as boat passes the point of no return so as to not upset the capitalists short term profits, and Trump taking over and paddling directly towards the waterfall.
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The virus developed in SE Asia, and had been rampaging through the animal kingdom especially including wild birds for years before it arrived on any farm Biden had jurisdiction over.
How is the current permanent reservoir in the wild anything to do with US policy? I actually completely agree with you that the Biden administration fucked up massively by not treating it as an urgent problem to any degree once it arrived here, enabling it to get a real solid foothold in US farms, but I think you picked a super weird way of framing that valid criticism within facts that don’t exist. When do you think it got established in wild animals and when do you think it arrived on US farms?
(I think the USDA actually bought tons of avian flu vaccine back at the end of Obama’s term, and then no one ever used it because of the export concern and it expired, and that formed a lot of not wanting to do it again. Also, there is disagreement about how good an idea giving the vaccine is, which is the whole reason it causes export issues. But if you are saying that is stupid logic, in the current pandemic environment, I will agree with you.)
I am going by an explanation I heard from a doctor awhile ago, but he seemed to think the reservoir in cattle would have been preventable if they took immediate measures, and that one was particularly threatening.
Hm, yeah, the reservoir in cattle is real bad and it’s all down to not taking the virus seriously all last year. I was just wondering where the pigs and wild birds came from, I hadn’t heard of either of those and the wild birds one didn’t immediately make sense to me.
I have edited my post accordingly.
Given the fact that D1.1 seems to be more virulent in humans, this could indicate a major change in terms of public health risks from the earlier scenario with the B3.13 strain,” veterinary science pioneer Juergen Richt, a former director at the National Institutes of Health, tells Fortune.
Hopefully it doesn’t amount to anything, but if it does, we’re fucked. States will lose federal funding for even suggesting people take basic precautions.
If nothing happens now, there'll be another chance sub enough. Industrial animal husbandry is pretty much a pandemic generator.
I guess its titme to get ready for preventable pandemic part 2: electric boogaloo
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