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submitted 11 months ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped.

Has the search for cases been weakened by government cuts? Are immigrant farm workers, who have accounted for many of the U.S. cases, more afraid to come forward for testing amid the Trump administration’s deportation push? Is it just a natural ebb in infections?

“We just don’t know why there haven’t been cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University. “I think we should assume there are infections that are occurring in farmworkers that just aren’t being detected.”

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[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 49 points 11 months ago

Omg, I think of this a lot when thinking back at the Covid response in early 2020. I really believe that these people never mentally developed past that of a toddler. They have no object permanence, no self-control, and no emotional regulation. They aren't satisfied with some of a thing, they need ALL of that thing.

We are being driven off a cliff by the dumbest, most immature humans to exist in the modern world.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.

Donald Trump, 2015.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade

[-] IAmLamp@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago

We got this guy, “Not Sure.” He’s gonna fix everything.

[-] ernest314@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

it makes me incredibly sad that these people are firing the smartest, most brilliant minds in this country, destroying their life's work, with no apparent awareness of just how bad they're fucking things up.

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