Double decker unprecedented times!
Ew, those gross Americans are gonna get us all diseased because they just had to get cheap meat from a wet cow market? What a backwards trash country.
And that's how it sounded when Americans blamed China for COVID
Except this time it will be kinda correct
What's crazy is that genomic testing showed that the variant found in China was newer than the one found in the US and Europe
Just like the Spanish Flu is so called because Spain actually took measures against, COVID’s association with China is because they took action sooner than anyone else.
How hard is it to stop feeding chicken shit to cows?
But it's so much cheaper. 
fed em the doodoo
Sure am glad we learned from COVID so people are still masking and social distancing, that should prevent this from getting out of hand! 
Only this time Trump absolutely will not do lockdowns or mask mandates or stimulus checks because his hoglets love death and misery and being owned.
Folks, it’s happening again. Another virus, another panic. Bird flu. Can you believe this? They’re calling it an emergency in California - of course it’s California. Gavin Newscum, doing a terrible job, by the way. He loves emergencies. But this isn’t COVID, okay? This is different. This is the woke virus. Not the mind virus, folks, but from a bird! A woke bird flu. That’s what we’re dealing with. A bird got very woke, and now it’s flu. Disgusting.
One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Bird flu in humans is like a 25% fatality rate 
While this is absolutely true and I don't wanna sound at all like I'm downplaying things, does anyone have information on why we haven't seen any deaths yet despite the high fatality rate?
Until guidance comes down from the CDC for them to start tallying these deaths specifically, the numbers are probably buried.
An investigative journalist could probably start requesting records from hospitals, and come up with some preliminary numbers.
By the time it gets bad enough for hospitals to start ringing the alarm bell, it's too late to actually prevent anything.
Don't worry though, I'm sure RFK Jr is perfectly suited to lead this country through a pandemic. (Hahaha, I have to laugh or I would cry)
Okay when I heard "history repeats itself" I was really hoping we were mostly talking about shit that happened way back when, not 4 fucking years ago. This is embarrassingly soon for another pandemic. Especially considering the first one never fucking ended.
History has decided to adopt Marvel's release schedule.
Whereas peepee
Whereas doodoo
Whereas deez
Me: laughing at the European nanny states and the Oriental Authoritarian Socialist Regimes
Also Me: dying as a direct result of my precious Occidental Freedoms.
NYT article "California Declares an Emergency Over Bird Flu"
Officials have discovered the virus in 645 herds, more than in any other state so far.
Dec. 18, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared on Wednesday that the outbreak of bird flu among the state’s diary cattle constituted an emergency, a stark acknowledgment of the increasing seriousness of the contagion’s spread.
California was not among the first states to detect the bird flu virus, H5N1, in dairy cattle. But since the first identification of an infected herd in late August, the state’s agriculture department has found the virus in 645 dairies, about half of them in the last 30 days alone.
The announcement follows news that an individual in Louisiana has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first severe case of infection identified so far in the United States.
The declaration of an emergency gives state and local authorities the resources they need to contain the outbreak, including hiring staff or issuing contracts.
“This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak,” Mr. Newsom said in a statement.
“While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus,” he said.
The outbreak in dairy cattle is thought to have begun in Texas early this year. As of Wednesday, 865 infected herds have been identified in 16 states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also confirmed H5N1 infection in 61 people, and indicated another seven as “probable” cases.
Only 37 of the 61 cases have been traced to interaction with infected cattle; the remaining are attributed either to exposure to diseased poultry, or are of unknown origin.
Many experts, including those at the World Health Organization, have faulted the U.S. response to the outbreak.
Until recently, nearly all testing of cattle and of people who may be infected with the virus has been voluntary. Bird flu does not yet spread easily among people, but every untreated infection is an opportunity for it to gain the ability to do so, experts have warned.
The Agriculture Department said earlier this month that it would begin testing the nation’s milk supply for H5N1, and would require farmers and dairy processors to provide samples of raw milk on request from the government.
California’s testing and monitoring system is the largest in the nation, as is the state’s dairy industry.
The flu is natural. It's from the Earth. 
Lol hell yeah dude can't wait for another once in a lifetime misery event to slam into my life
This fucking country I swear to God
Makes sense, people were getting bored of the current plague so Nurgle had to whip up another one. Keep people on their toes.
All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
Look, Rom, Rom...I know you're a sophisticated guy. The world is a mess. The world is as sick as it gets. What you think this gonna cause a little more sickness? The world is a sick place. All of this has happened: we went into lockdown- we shouldn't have gone into lockdown.
here come the mask bans 
Every year for Christmas,
CW Meat and Animal Cruelty
some friends of distant relatives who own a couple hundred head of cattle slaughter a couple as "gifts" and they send maybe 30lbs of meat each to a bunch of other families for the holidays, which is further divided and gifted out depending on freezer space and need.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go! :)))))
COUGHIEFORNIA 
Grandfather infect Elon Musk and my life is yours!
shit. so still not verified human to human yet?
we are really standing on a knife's edge here
Just give it time. I'm sure if we let it run unchecked through our food systems, it will mutate something that can jump between humans as soon enough.
i live in ga. lots of travelers. im gonna start wearing a mask now.
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