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.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    great, can't wait to see just how farcical this farcical-ass bit of tragic recent history gets when it repeats

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      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

            • Abraxiel
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              2 years ago

              On the other hand, we can actually cure plague instead of just providing supportive treatment.

          • booty [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            haha we're actually about to witness the collapse of civilization arent we

            haha haha ha. ha.

            • Southloop [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              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.

              • Bobby_DROP_TABLES [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                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.

                • Southloop [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  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.