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The virus developed in SE Asia, and had been rampaging through the animal kingdom especially including wild birds for years before it arrived on any farm Biden had jurisdiction over.
How is the current permanent reservoir in the wild anything to do with US policy? I actually completely agree with you that the Biden administration fucked up massively by not treating it as an urgent problem to any degree once it arrived here, enabling it to get a real solid foothold in US farms, but I think you picked a super weird way of framing that valid criticism within facts that don’t exist. When do you think it got established in wild animals and when do you think it arrived on US farms?
(I think the USDA actually bought tons of avian flu vaccine back at the end of Obama’s term, and then no one ever used it because of the export concern and it expired, and that formed a lot of not wanting to do it again. Also, there is disagreement about how good an idea giving the vaccine is, which is the whole reason it causes export issues. But if you are saying that is stupid logic, in the current pandemic environment, I will agree with you.)
I am going by an explanation I heard from a doctor awhile ago, but he seemed to think the reservoir in cattle would have been preventable if they took immediate measures, and that one was particularly threatening.
Hm, yeah, the reservoir in cattle is real bad and it’s all down to not taking the virus seriously all last year. I was just wondering where the pigs and wild birds came from, I hadn’t heard of either of those and the wild birds one didn’t immediately make sense to me.
Cursory googling tells me I misunderstood, the pigs aren't a reservoir, rather there has been at least one outbreak in a pig farm.
I have edited my post accordingly.