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[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 minutes ago

Biden's strategy for curbing excess real estate demand is starting to look promising

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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

[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

The sharp slant upwards is actually cool and good and not worrying at all /s

[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 21 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 12 hours ago
[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Mmm chimken virus 🤤

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago
[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

hell yeah I like this

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 12 hours ago

What would I even do to prevent being infected this time?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 53 minutes ago

Stop eating meat, which is currently the primary infection vector

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago

Same as last time: social distance (abstinence is best, but if you must be around humans, stand away from them), keep your face covered, wash your hands at least five times a day.

[-] MrPiss@hexbear.net 26 points 16 hours ago

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 20 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 11 hours ago

In the sense that both happen at a way higher rate than what we've seen lately & we know the quiet period is purely by chance?

Yes.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 22 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 42 points 18 hours ago

Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago

Tbh at least he gave out cash and instituted a lockdown, however brief. As soon as Biden came in it was Back To Normal

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago

Yep, it's funny, because as dangerous as he was and is for many populations, he was actually kind of decent at pandemics.

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 68 points 18 hours ago

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 37 points 18 hours ago

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 31 points 18 hours ago
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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 24 points 18 hours ago

it’s just flu

manhattan

[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 21 points 17 hours ago

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 17 points 16 hours 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.

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago

pigs can host human flu and this one at the same time and possibly generate the jump

Yep for those who want to know more

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_recombination#RNA_virus_recombination

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 15 points 16 hours 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.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 64 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 29 points 18 hours ago

And genocides. Wow, can you believe that??

[-] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Remember "kids in cages"? Yeah, its about to make a comeback!

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago

We must stop them from funding the genocide!

Coming soon as a slogan near you !

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 55 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 22 points 16 hours ago

I fucking wish but people would rather die

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 31 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] troybot@midwest.social 13 points 16 hours ago

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 15 hours 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.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 47 points 20 hours ago

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.

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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] toys_are_back_in_town@hexbear.net 11 points 14 hours ago

search corsi-rosenthal box, comrades

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 13 points 16 hours ago
[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 27 points 16 hours ago

64 tested and reported in your state. so-far

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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

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