• JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I am actually curious to see if the crowd who said the ‘covid vaccine did more harm than good’ will get to see in action what happens when the whole world vaccines against the bird flu pandemic and the USA goes with Cptn Brainworms anti-vax stance.

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    8 months ago

    Good timing - we’ve got a President who has experience in handling pandemics.

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    8 months ago

    It’s a good thing we keep historically unprecedented numbers of live animals in historically unprecedented close quarters. The beef and dairy industry has made some great strides in ending the human race

  • meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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    Oh, fantastic. The pandemic-industrial complex is back on the menu. We’ve spent decades industrializing agriculture into viral petri dishes, then act shocked when nature mutates around our hubris. Cows are just the latest domino—watch the blame shift to “wet markets” or migratory birds while factory farms keep hosing antibiotics into troughs.

    But sure, let’s hyperventilate about proximity to doom. Never mind that zoonotic spillover’s been a ticking clock since we decided monoculture and profit margins trump ecosystem logic. The real virus here? Capitalism with a side of amnesia.

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    8 months ago

    A perfect time to get rid of the CDC and the NIH. Also, let’s stop funding medical research. No sharing medical information that might make the ruling dumb shits look bad- thats treason.

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    8 months ago

    Given the fact that D1.1 seems to be more virulent in humans, this could indicate a major change in terms of public health risks from the earlier scenario with the B3.13 strain,” veterinary science pioneer Juergen Richt, a former director at the National Institutes of Health, tells Fortune.

    Hopefully it doesn’t amount to anything, but if it does, we’re fucked. States will lose federal funding for even suggesting people take basic precautions.

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      8 months ago

      If nothing happens now, there’ll be another chance sub enough. Industrial animal husbandry is pretty much a pandemic generator.

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    8 months ago

    Those that do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. History has the chance to do possibly the funniest thing ever right now. To be clear, the death of millions is tragic, and hordendous, but historically speaking it’s fucking hilarious that he stepped into office and repeated the exact same steps that led to covid spreading so rapidly last time!

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      8 months ago

      What if Trump invented H5N1 so he could have another chance at the whole pandemic thing lol oh man what if Trump and RFK Jr invented H5N1 to drive up the price of eggs so Hilla…Obam…Bide…Harris wouldn’t get elected.

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    8 months ago

    Finally a silver lining to a trade war. Shut down those borders and stew in your own bird flu variant.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
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    8 months ago

    Dairy herds in Nevada

    “There are things you must know. The village is dying; the signs are everywhere. Withering crops… dying brahmin… …sick children.”

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      I wish we could line these up with GOOD presidents…it would help this already stressful situation…

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    8 months ago

    Making America great again: the USA will be leading the world in new pandemics. By crippling the safeguards, removing science and news… because in chaos and death, dictators can continue to hold power over a fearful and panicked population.

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    8 months ago

    A vaccine for chickens exists, that was never required because it would restrict exports to certain countries; hurting profits.

    Now we have permanent reservoirs of the disease in cattle, pigs, and wild birds.

    Note that Biden did allocate 1.8B in funding to deal with birdflu in humans over his 4 years.

    So basically we had the Biden admin coasting as boat passes the point of no return so as to not upset the capitalists short term profits, and Trump taking over and paddling directly towards the waterfall.

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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.)

  • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    In response to an emailed series of questions, a spokesperson for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the agency still deems the risk to human health for the general public to be low.

    For how much longer can we trust their pronouncements? All the US government departments are under the control of compulsively lying anti-science Nazis.