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  • D61 [any]
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    20 days ago

    Don't worry, as soon as Trump is sworn in the liberals will remember that pandemics exist.

      • D61 [any]
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        19 days ago

        Remember "kids in cages"? Yeah, its about to make a comeback!

      • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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        19 days ago

        tbf democrats this time around have just decided to lean into the evil shit they were supporting before the election instead of performatively opposing it after the fact

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    20 days ago

    Society-wide veganism via massive livestock pandemic is going on my 2025 bingo card.

    • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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      20 days ago

      I'd like to think mass extinction of livestock would help stop climate change, but then capitalism would just invent a meat cloning factory that would produce double the methane

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        20 days ago

        It's actually kind of an issue right now with single-cell protein production. These companies are popping up with these very electricity intensive ways of culturing yeasts or bacteria for protein and if it takes off on our dirty grid, it'd result in a lot of CO2 emissions.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    20 days ago

    Because it’s not coming from “bad country” and isn’t “effecting the gays” like monkeypox. So you alarmists should stop trying to control our rugged individualism and push vaccines onto us.

  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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    20 days ago

    are the other states not testing?

    cant wait for "it's just the flu" round two because it's literally a flu

  • regul [any]
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    20 days ago

    Isn't person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.

  • MrPiss [he/him]
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    20 days ago

    Important to remember that there is already a vaccine for h5n1. It would need to be updated if it mutates to a point where human to human infections are consistent. It should be faster to get something out than it took for covid.

    I obviously have no idea what it would look like if it does mutate to human to human transmission but I'm not an omega doomer about it. We cant predict when or even if a process like evolution will produce a certain result. The US and other countries will obviously let it rip so stay safe if it does.

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      20 days ago

      Feels like predicting the next pandemic is like predicting the next recession at this point

  • bigbrowncommie69 [any]
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    19 days ago

    Wait til it shows up in China then they'll acknowledge it and blame it on the Chinese.

  • hotspur@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    I don’t have a source, but I read somewhere earlier that a teen in Canada is in intensive care with it, and there’s no connection between the teen and fowl or livestock. There has been a couple of these in the last couple months. I like to think of it as the couple engine turn overs before you get the lawnmower started. There was also something about it infecting about farm I saw, which is tre bad because the pigs can host human flu and this one at the same time and possibly generate the jump.

    I wonder about whether large swathes of the public are capable of doing quarantines or taking safety measures… I mean they’re definitely done with Covid, but if this kicks off it will be way scarier way fast with hospitals collapses and bodies rotting in houses, so maybe that’s enough. But honestly we’re so far into hyper reality mode that they also might not be physically capable of acting rationally or believing things that run counter to what they want to believe.

    • Azarova [they/them]
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      20 days ago

      but if this kicks off it will be way scarier way fast with hospitals collapses and bodies rotting in houses, so maybe that’s enough

      After everything, I would honestly just expect for reactionaries to claim its fake AI footage/images or whatever. Half this country threw a massive temper tantrum over simply being asked to wear a mask. I truly wish you're right, but I have no hope left for anything even approaching a rational response if this does evolve into another pandemic.

    • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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      20 days ago

      article - archive

      Health officials do not yet know how the patient was exposed.

      “It is very likely that it is an exposure to an animal or bird or something in the environment,” said Henry, adding authorities may never determine how the patient became infected.

      The teen was exposed to pets inside and outside the house, including dogs, cats and some reptiles but no birds.

    • Sulvor [he/him, undecided]
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      20 days ago

      pigs can host human flu and this one at the same time and possibly generate the jump

      Yep for those who want to know more

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_recombination#RNA_virus_recombination

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      20 days ago

      The HPAI H5N1 outbreak in cows has been limited to the US so far

      The Australian government put $100 million towards H5N1 related measures last month, but that's more because they haven't done much about it because H5N1 isn't present on the continent (yet)

      • Chronicon [they/them]
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        20 days ago

        canada has a slightly different strain, but still H5N1, it is circulating there in bird flocks and showing up in wild mammals and now a human: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadas-national-lab-confirms-h5n1-hospitalized-teen

      • TheDoctor [they/them]
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        20 days ago

        Imagining that as a ticker scrolling across the top of the screen in the mid game of Plague Inc

    • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]
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      19 days ago

      No. At least not where I am.

      This just makes me surer that my late 2019 covid was really covid (all the hallmark symptoms) and the only reason it was taken seriously was China calling it out. Or at least it had been brewing a lot longer.

  • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
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    19 days ago

    Don't worry it's gonna spread around the world, China will immediately react and alert everyone and then the US will call it the Chinese Flu and acknowledge it all cases that appear from that point onward until investers determine line has to go up more quicker.

    First part is basically what happened with the spanish flu