• Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    24 days ago

    Yeah it isn't really a "if it's gonna happen" question but a "when is it gonna happen" with avian flu, anyway time to buy more rice and beans.

    • BountifulEggnog [they/them]
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      24 days ago

      Yup, and "How bad is it gonna be?". I don't fully buy a 50% lethality, but with covid only being 2%... there's still a lot of room for it to be very bad.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        23 days ago

        Anything between 5% and 10% would be utterly devastating for the world and would collapse the medical system completely (my ass would be running from my workplace in a nanosecond the minute bird flu goes full force) alongside the general infrastructure