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[–] D61@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And genocides. Wow, can you believe that??

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

I'm gonna stop being vegan if everyone else does it!

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

I fucking wish but people would rather die

[–] troybot@midwest.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months 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.

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What if the eco-fascists saying Covid was the earth trying to cleanse itself were right?

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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

are the other states not testing?

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

[–] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

it’s just flu

manhattan

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Without a doubt, if they do acknowledge it, it will be blamed on China 100% like the last time.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Doing a heckin' orientalism by calling it ASIAN Bird Flu and claiming the strain originated in Chinese geese populations

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Years that now repeat forever, 2016, 2019, 2020 soon to be 2024.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's like a dark Chinese calendar.

Oh I see its the Year of the Trump, that means next year is the year of Heather Heyer

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[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Like how there's no need to because we're already in one?

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[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

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

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[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months 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@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months 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.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

so-far

Once they hit the hog farms, because pigs are very close to us medically, an incredibly infectious human to human variant is just a matter of time.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hog flu! Hog flu! Hog flu!

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

WHO LET THE HOGS OUT?

Flu, flu, flu

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[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

it will be rare until it isn't

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Welp... I'm literally building air purifiers for around my house and workplace.

search corsi-rosenthal box, comrades

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[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

are other countries even acknowledging it

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[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

64 tested and reported in your state. so-far

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

these lyrics are about a big storm but whatever

24 dead in my state

Motor spirit subjugate

Creator, a burning mouth

Carnage North, East, West, and South

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this the one that had like a 50% mortality rate?

[–] Des@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

in theory but if it goes human to human it could be more like 5 to 10%.

i mean real spanish flu time. this one would be bodies in the streets.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But you're coming into the office, right? you-have-been-promoted

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

Lazy ass dead people expecting handouts. Get off your deceased ass and work

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Turns out the fakest part about Roland Emmerich movies wasn't the aliens or the moon crashing after all, but rather that anyone with power would actually give a shit about any of it happening.

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am once again asking the admins for Pathologic emotes

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