I knew he was just a huge shill for the reptile egg shadow industry. Before you know it, all US omelets will be made from factory-farmed sea turtle eggs.
the worm egg industry, he needs everyone to have worms.
Do you want another pandemic? Because that is how you get another pandemic.
I've contracted covid twice. Both were when visiting the US. And that was before this numpty was in charge. This will not go well.
Any random person in the US has probably had COVID at least four times by now
I still have not gotten it. I was very conscientious about masks and social distancing and even have my vaccinations up to date just in case. But, I haven’t masked or social distanced in a long time, so now I’m just running on luck I guess.
Well, there it is. Life will... find a way.
Such a fantastic idea. This man is a genius.
And a stable genius at that!
I made a joke about this in a German community and yet here we are. Satire is dead, murdered by the imbeciles in the Trump administration.
are poultry prices going up like egg prices are in the states?
No, they're different chickens and the virus has been spreading more through egg laying chickens. In part because they're in different locations.
thanks!
Let him visit one of these farms for a good few days.
Do you want plague chickens? Because this how you get plague chickens.
Historically this strategy hasn't really worked out so well for the masses...
not paywalled for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html
preserve the birds, that are immune to it
I still don't like the everyone get measles version of this.
willing to really try this on a pilot as we build the safe perimeter around them to see if there is a way forward with immunity
"pilot with safe perimeter" seems reasonable, as long as safe perimeter works. Bird flu is endemic already, afaik. = "will remain a constant presence". It only makes sense for domestic chickens/fowls. It is not endemic yet in other animals/humans, and maximum quick containment seems like only approach to keep it that way.
Bird flu not being a problem in countries that have smaller flocks, seems a transformative solution.
I didn't like the rebuttals in my link above. One of them says that the best thing for you/chickens is "to have a central authority decide to cull you minimizing for a balance of cost and your pain, instead of giving you the chance/choice of either surviving, or far more likely, suffering before death." I would choose the 2nd option, but can only do so under central authority that has already decided what it prefers.
I can't read this because fuck nyt, but wtf @
I didn't like the rebuttals in my link above. One of them says that the best thing for you/chickens is "to have a central authority decide to cull you minimizing for a balance of cost and your pain, instead of giving you the chance/choice of either surviving, or far more likely, suffering before death." I would choose the 2nd option, but can only do so under central authority that has already decided what it prefers.
Like what? Who is saying this to the person that is "you" in this scenario? Wtf? Absolute fucking non starter. I'm not choosing shit, fuck that we're not doing that.
The rebuttals for a pilot included that if you cull the whole flock, when signs of avian flu in part of the flock, then you are killing all of the chickens humanely instead of the large majority dying in pain from likely getting the flu. You are the chicken whose death is being decided from above.
Holy fuck that's grim. I didn't pick up what you meant at first my bad but I get it now. You're saying if this is their tactic for the birds, and "let 'er rip" is policy for covid for humans then it's going to be somewhere between "many if not most folks have multiple nontraumatic brain injuries now and autoimmune conditions that are [as I understand it] equivalent to developing AIDS in much shorter time and more" and "we will forcibly cull the herd to protect the future of the project".
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