Pandemic airborne human-to-human bird flu could be out there right now and we could just not know.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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This is very flimsy so take it for what it's worth, but I have a really bad feeling that bird flu is about to become a much bigger deal, at least in the bird population if it doesn't make the jump to humans
It's winter here, I live in an area where most of the birds migrate south for the winter. Some species don't migrate, some individuals don't, and some birds even migrate to here, so there's usually some birds around here for the winter.
This year I've seen more.
And when I'm out walking my dog at night, they're on the ground, not up in trees or in bushes where you'd expect to see birds, or even hiding out in the undergrowth of wooded areas they're out in the open on the grass, sidewalk, middle of the road, etc. in the middle of the night.
I see one almost every night, sometimes a few of them. And I have a bad feeling that these birds are sick and too weak to do much besides flutter away to a different patch of grass when I get close.
I've been in this house for about 5 years, been taking my dog for walks almost every night since then, rain or shine, summer or winter. This isn't something I've seen until this year. And I've seen it in a handful of places outside of my neighborhood as well.
It may be me being paranoid, it may be something other than bird flu, but it's not exactly giving me the warm-fuzzies.
Not to destroy any scraps of warm fuzzies you may have left, you're right to worry. It's foolish so many are ignoring how big of a threat this really is.
In October a review was published in JAMA showing that bird flu can be asymptomatic and that these cases are likely confirmation human to human transmission has already occurred (the asymptomatic individuals came in direct contact with a symptomatic person infected by an animal).
Rick Bright, (who was fired for going against Trump on COVID during his first administration) wrote a commentary about it https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2840687
When you hear dumbasses like Dr. Oz apparently downplaying the importance of getting the flu vaccine, it's hard to believe their response to another pandemic (when they have even more power and fewer safety nets) will be anything but a disaster.
When you hear dumbasses like Dr. Oz apparently downplaying the importance of getting the flu vaccine, it’s hard to believe their response to another pandemic (when they have even more power and fewer safety nets) will be anything but a disaster.
We don't even have to guess. We saw how Taco and his most ardent supporters treated science.
I think we know exactly how terrible they'd be about another pandemic, since he's even less restrained than he was before. There won't be a Fauci around this time...
It's not scientific, but sometimes your gut instinct is your brain taking in a lot of data and processing it subconsciously. When animals act out of sorts, it's probably something. Could be not sickness, but just a lack of food due to other things in nature having problems.
Monitor the trend and avoid contact of whatever the birds frequently sit on
Finishing what the asteroids started; sending the last of the dinosaurs back to their fucking maker.
A human story.
Like we can trust the CDC, so it's 100x worse because "if we don't report then it doesn't exist"
They're still doing their part. If the currently compromised CDC is reporting an increase in a disease, that means it's bad and they can't pretend it's fine.
Is this new shitshow of a "CDC" just reporting Covid as "just the flu" now, though?
Shot by fascist police in cold blood? Flu.
I'm less shocked about the metrics than this administration allowing the CDC to pubslish them.
Its definitely a big uptick here in my city since the week before Christmas and it was way more apparent with the amount of sick people still trying to commute to work with public transit today after the holidays have ended. Also directly dealing with about 80/20 sick people atm with my job, seems meds are the main thing people are wanting expressed atm.
They'll fix that right away! CDC shouldn't report that anymore! Problem fixed!
Wait, the CDC still collects data? Somebody ought to do something about that!
So do the Covid stats reflect “flu like” data in the past? As in, is the current trend worse than the apex of covid? Or is that different?
[x] doubt