I'm less worried about this one. It's largely a tick thing, from what I've been reading. it'll definitely cause some deaths as the ticks carrying the disease migrate deeper into Europe, but it's unlikely to see the same sort of human to human spread as covid. Or even mpox. This is more of a, 'we need to address climate change' than "we need to lockdown' sort of situation. For now at least.🤞 As more and more people become immunocompromised from covid, all bets are off as to how other virii can mutate and spread.
Ticks are the worst thing in the universe so I will continue to be upset.
“Most human cases have occurred in people involved in the livestock industry, such as agricultural workers, slaughterhouse workers and veterinarians”
This is fine because there are so many extra veterinarians in the global workforce, and they don’t do any important public health work at all. They’re totally expendable, unlike Real Doctors. And if there’s one thing Veterinarians are well known for its having good mental health!
Tbf that’s a problem that could be fixed very quickly if vet schools would just let more people in. They deliberately limit admissions to make sure vet salaries stay high. There are thousands of perfectly qualified people every year who apply to vet school and don’t get in.
Edit: To be very clear that doesn’t make the disregard for human life okay, just wanted to point out that the vet shortage is manufactured
Also grading on a curve to limit the number of graduates rather than passing people based on a fixed standard.
You're not wrong, but veterinarians also have an incredibly high debt to income ratio relative to other medical professionals and one of the highest suicide rates of any profession. Those two things are not directly cause and effect, but they are certainly highly correlated.
I don't know what the right answer is, aside from fully automated luxury communism.
I’m a strong lockdown advocate but it doesn’t seem like a reasonable choice for this one.
No respiratory spread, seems like this one falls under “Wash your hands, don’t share needles, wear long pants and bug spray in tick prone areas”
This is GBNews, which is a hard-right Fox News wannabe publication/failed TV channel. Thus, the lockdown fear-mongering.
But he denied a national lockdown would be a sensible way to deal with the arrival of the virus in the UK.
So we literally learned nothing from covid and we're just going to fuck around with the bleed out and die fever.
The woke mob wants to take away your choice to expire in a pool of your own bɔood
I really hate how unreasonably alarming this headline is. For a second I thought "Shit, I wasn't able to find a fast enough escape route after all"
