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The bird flu? yeah they tend to do that
posting this with my one free arm while in the ICU before they put me in an induced coma
see you soon space cowboy 
oh so now we even have bird flu but not even drone flu? they're covering something up
Bird flu has been linked with severe human illness and death in other countries. No person-to-person spread has been detected. “This case does not change CDC’s overall assessment of the immediate risk to the public’s health from H5N1 bird flu, which remains low,” the CDC said in a statement.
Low, huh. Is that shorthand for "We have no fucking clue?"
"We don't want people to panic" sounds super familiar lol
"we don't want the economy to panic"
This bloated ass bubble is going to pop catastrophically
I really feel for my American comrades but god damn I wish it would pop already. Every month it don't pop is another month of America shipping dollars and weapons to Israel and a bunch of Al-Qaeda spinoffs
American politicians like
"What do you mean it can't expand forever without bursting?"
Good old reliable CDC. Love this public trust.
Editorial Note: The cumulative incidence of AIDS in City Clinic cohort members is now 3,825 per 100,000, the highest of any reported population (4,5). Almost three-quarters of cohort members now have serologic evidence of HTLV-III/LAV infections. The long-term prognoses for these men is unknown. The fact that two-thirds of men infected for over 5 years have not developed AIDS or AIDS-related illness is an encouraging indication that infection with this virus is not necessarily followed by rapid development of symptoms and death.
(emphasis mine) From the introduction of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in the San Francisco Cohort Study, 1978 -1985. The absence of data, to be clear, is not "an encouraging indication" of anything. By the 90s it was established that virtually everyone with untreated HIV develops AIDS after a latency period of 8-15 years. But there basically weren't any treatments yet. No heads rolled for publishing this claim and there is no reason to believe the culture of the CDC has improved since.
Also how do they define “immediate risk” like in the next few weeks? Next few months?
"Until human-human spread happens which could be any day". Given how many times we roll the dice and the fact that no precautions are being taken, it seems likely it'll happen eventually.
Low as in we can't say it's bad until it's out of fuckin control
You gave me a posting idea. I'm busy right now so maybe I'll get back to you tomorrow. Or maybe sooner like in the next hour work be damned.
So for those of you not masking during the current pandemic that's disabling millions because no one else around you is masking, you gonna ignore this one too? Because if you're waiting for the people who have been saying "it's just a cold" or "it's just like the flu" to start masking, I think you're gonna be waiting a while.
as someone who still masks, its beyond depressing to see half my family and friends written off even by communists as "acceptable losses."
like even, basically all the communists ime, online and offline, are antimaskers. They might say or think that they aren't but in practice, they are antimaskers. They refuse to wear masks; they go to restaurants (and invite others); they host superspreading home parties and go to concerts and to dance classes and clubs and bars and on and on with not a single thought for their own health, much less those with weaker immune systems--and if any of this is brought up they look offended, like it's YOUR fault there's a plague and YOURE in the wrong for not wanting to die or spread death to ur family.
Antimaskers won. 
Communist here, I never stopped masking, and I force my immediate family to mask also. I have virtually no social life and will not do dinner parties unless they are outdoors.
When will you feel comfortable with an indoor dinner party, once COVID is eradicated?
yes.
yes.
yes.
I'm sorry for this question, but isn't it the opinion of most health professionals at this moment that covid is in the process of becoming an endemic disease and that it will stay with us in the long term?
Sorry, I'm really asking this out of ignorance.
No. Endemic does not mean what you think it is does in a medical context. Yes it's probably never going away, but no it is not going to be endemic in that it will just be a background disease that never spikes.
Also, does something never go away suddenly make it okay in your eyes to give yourself a disease that will likely either:
- kill you
- give you brain damage and/or other serious health issues for what is likely going to be a much shorter, harsher life than if you had taken precautions
Like how does, "it's not going away" equal "i guess I should just give up and get airborne aids over and over again until it ruins or ends my life."
I could maybe get my partner to mask when we're out and about but she'll never mask whenever we visit her family, none of whom will mask either and work with lots of kids, so I just have to accept that I'm fucked.
Makes me miss living alone.
Our best hope is to make it illegal to wear masks and wait for the CIA to drop their latest bioweapon and burrow underground while everyone dies
Courtesy of coeliacmccarthy's quote
we fed the cows bird doodoo
we fed the bids cow doodoo
:ouroboros:
I tell myself I bear witness, but the real answer is that it’s obviously my programming, and I lack the constitution for protracted people's war.
can we get a wastewater tracking link?
data.wastewaterscan.org
Meanwhile I'm over here sick with COVID like an out of fashion loser
People out there getting covid-24 and you’re still on Covid-19 like a loser
I'm in with the in crowd (Bird-flu-flu)
I have every latest virus (Bird-flu-flu)
When you're in with the in crowd (Bird-flu-flu)
It's easy to find hipness (Get down)
---
I liked this instrumental much more - The "In" Crowd · Ramsey Lewis Trio
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Link 1:
Link 2:
Go birds! Oh... not like that
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