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[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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 7 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 25 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 20 hours ago
[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago
[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 4 points 12 hours ago

Mmm chimken virus 🤤

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 points 17 hours ago
[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 17 hours ago

hell yeah I like this

[-] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago

Stop eating meat, which is currently the primary infection vector

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 7 points 17 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.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 11 points 13 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 7 points 12 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 73 points 1 day ago

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately

[-] MrPiss@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day 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 22 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 25 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 19 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.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day 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 35 points 1 day ago
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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

it’s just flu

manhattan

[-] D61@hexbear.net 66 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

And genocides. Wow, can you believe that??

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago

tbf democrats this time around have just decided to lean into the evil shit they were supporting before the election instead of performatively opposing it after the fact

[-] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 8 points 19 hours ago

We must stop them from funding the genocide!

Coming soon as a slogan near you !

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 56 points 1 day ago

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

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

I fucking wish but people would rather die

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago

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

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[-] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day 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 1 day 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.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day 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 26 points 1 day ago

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

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

[-] TheDeed@hexbear.net 7 points 8 hours ago

Yep, I've built some already in different configurations, some using PC fans too to make it quieter. These things legit can save lives, the higher flow filters actually remove aerosolized viruses faster than HEPA.

[-] toys_are_back_in_town@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago

search corsi-rosenthal box, comrades

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

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

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