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[-] D61@hexbear.net 68 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

And genocides. Wow, can you believe that??

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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

I fucking wish but people would rather die

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] troybot@midwest.social 17 points 2 weeks 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 15 points 2 weeks 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 50 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 76 points 2 weeks ago

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks 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

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago

are the other states not testing?

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

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

it’s just flu

manhattan

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Des@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

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 42 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] regul@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

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 46 points 2 weeks ago

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 17 points 2 weeks ago

Hog flu! Hog flu! Hog flu!

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

WHO LET THE HOGS OUT?

Flu, flu, flu

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[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

it will be rare until it isn't

[-] MrPiss@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks 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 25 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago
[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 weeks 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 18 points 2 weeks 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 15 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

are other countries even acknowledging it

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

The HPAI H5N1 outbreak in cows has been limited to the US so far

The Australian government put $100 million towards H5N1 related measures last month, but that's more because they haven't done much about it because H5N1 isn't present on the continent (yet)

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

canada has a slightly different strain, but still H5N1, it is circulating there in bird flocks and showing up in wild mammals and now a human: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/canadas-national-lab-confirms-h5n1-hospitalized-teen

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Imagining that as a ticker scrolling across the top of the screen in the mid game of Plague Inc

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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

I am once again asking the admins for Pathologic emotes

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[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago

64 tested and reported in your state. so-far

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