Still waiting on official public health press release, but it has been confirmed by other news sites on the death of the eleven year old this week.
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great, can't wait to see just how farcical this farcical-ass bit of tragic recent history gets when it repeats
Honestly if this is human to human contact it's going to be more debilitating than covid and likely sucker punch our current system given the expected CFR
Hey, still less lethal than the black death! :maybe-later-honey:
On the other hand, we can actually cure plague instead of just providing supportive treatment.
haha we're actually about to witness the collapse of civilization arent we
haha haha ha. ha.
Flus are much better understood than coronavirus currently, and we’d at least be starting off from a much better vaccine position than we did with COVID. I’ll take a bird flu over a lot of other viruses anyway.
This is true, but the challenge is getting enough people vaccinated fast enough to stop the spread before it mutates. Putting aside logistics, there's no way we will ever be able to do that thanks to the fact that COVID made being antivax a mainstream position.
In the instance of a bird flu with a high mortality rate, those that chose to not vaccinate would likely be resigning themselves to death, which would possibly occur quickly enough before too much spread/mutation. Like what likely happened to the Spanish Flu, where it probably died off because it killed every person it possibly could.
I'm immunocompromised so I guess I'm wearing a fucking full gasmask at work.
Also I can't let this kill me. Who will kiss my gf WHO WOULD GIVE MY DOG BELLY RUBS
There seem to be crossover cases all over the place with this thing...there's no way it's not going to go critical is there? :scared:
Human to human isn't confirmed so far and of the 12 only 4 are showing symptoms, so fingers crossed this isn't the big one.
This. it's concerning, but viruses don't easy jump species. Like this is something that definitely needs to be kept track of, but it's not the apocalypse yet.
Not yet, but it will be, probably in our lifetimes. The warning signs are all there and nothing is being done.
No changes to animal ag; no clean air safety regulations (indoor air particulate limits), no active public education on masks preventing the spread of disease, no contingency planning
Hey everyone i smell smoke coming from downstairs
Nah it’s cool we will worry about it when we are engulfed in flames
As you say, it seems to me that it's totally stoppable with increased political will, but what the covid 19 response taught me is that, barring china, no country is willing to do anything about anything that doesn't make line go up for short term gains, with many useful idiots in the population to ensure it stays that way. So I'm deeply pessimistic.
It’s fucking sad
I said this yesterday in another thread, but I will repeat it: I really hope this outbreak doesn’t happen, but if it does I hope it’s in an AES country because we won’t stand a chance otherwise
But covid started in China, and look how that went. We're fucked anyway
Reports that Cambodia has reported 12 new bird flu cases are incorrect. However, 4 people are showing symptoms and their test results are expected soon
Holy shit - I every piece of breaking news about non-birds - freaks me out. In the following video - the reporter says "The risk to humans remains low." But for how long?
[CW: Graphic video at the tweet.]
Bird flu has killed more than 700 sea lions in protected areas across Peru, as veterinarians and health experts work to understand the alarming H5N1 outbreak that has spread to mammals
Is there anything that can be done individually now to prepare for an outbreak?
Yes. move to a country that actually takes pandemics seriously, I think theres like 2 or three of them to chose from.
If you can do a week long buffer for food, not anything crazy but just something you can roll into your regular meal prep (don't go full prepper chud and buy expensive tasteless freeze dried stuff). Also if you are on any prescriptions see if it's viable to get a week long or even month long emergency buffer (a good reason to get this from your perscriber would be "I'm going on an extended trip internationally and want to be covered"). Also some cheap generic flu meds (Tylenol, cough suppressant, mucinex stuff etc) mainly because when covid hit and if you just got regular ass flu the shelves were already picked clean.
edit: what I've found best for emergency food prep is canned goods, for instance canned tomatoes and chickpeas make easy drop curries (can then also add coconut milk), add to that a couple pounds of rice and you should be solid.
this is spurring me to actually go get a ton of rice and beans and canned tomatoes plus a few other things at costco, not that i am expecting it to blow up into a march 2020-level situation but i've been meaning to for a while just to have some basic staple items on hand for easy and cheap meals and it's as good of a reason as any
Yup and the good thing is it never goes to waste cuss now you got an excuses to make everything from bean curries to bean chili. Cool thing I found out is how easily freezable one pot bean dinners are :bean:
