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People confusing this with COVID might be in for a surprise because if this becomes a human pandemic it will likely be much worse.
The difference being that Covid took a scientific breakthrough to make a vaccine for (as various factors about the virus were unprecedented) while flu variants are very much a known thing as far as virology goes.
The feds already have a reserve of human-safe H5N1 vaccines, the only thing preventing them from using that when SHTF is ideology. It will be both completely prepared for and completely preventable.
You think we'll have enough?
Fascists are actively slashing funding, firing experts, cutting programs. Research labs are currently in shambles. The future secretary of health is a fucking anti-vaxer.
You thought covid was bad? We're going to experience a pandemic with no government action first hand.
assuming the strain used in that reserve will be effective against whatever variant makes a breakthrough to humans. note that current H5 vaccine candidates are determined based on animal studies and a variant that jumps from an animal to a human might show substantial variation that we could need to change the strain in the vaccines. it would be faster than before thanks to mRNA vaccines but I would think that even just within the USA, a sufficient roll out with an updated vaccine would at best take a couple months assuming people would be willing to get vaccinated. Between the antivax people in US and parts of the world not receiving vaccine quickly enough, there would be ample room for such a H5 to take hold and have devastating effects. Covid could still seem like a walk in the park despite having mRNA tech ready to go now.
Agreed. Maybe if we didn't have so many goddamn Republicans, especially with power and platforms. Even under Kamala, it'd be bad, but with these chucklefucks in charge right now...
This is seriously the dumbest and probably most preventable timeline. Well, except for all the goddamn idiots and apathetic people in the country.
Sigh.
Username checks out.
After fucking it up on a global pandemic there were people attacking the Capitol to defend him. He's just trying to repeat that achievement.
Up next repealing regulations preventing farmers from selling downer cows. Can't afford not to sell infected meat. Grocery prices are already too high. What could go wrong?
Maybe Idiocracy won't happen. The stupid ones should wipe themselves out in a pandemic. We just need to wait for the right one.
Idiocracy is trash for babies, up your socially critical media game.
The first pandemic is still killing disabled people.
Aw shit, here we go again.
Calling it now: we have another pandemic during Trump's current term.
Conspiracy theorists will go "isn't it weird there's always a pandemic while trump is president, must be the Democrats/Jews/Illuminati/"The Regime" controlling everything, Plandemic am a right?"
Couldn't possibly be Trump removing all safeguards against pandemics...
I hope it will be called "Trump plague" or something this time around.
"Trump Flu 2" to emphasize this is happening AGAIN
Trump pandemic 2:The Flu Boogaloo
When it's in California, it's "God's wrath", when it's under Trump, it's "just a thing that happens, nothing to be done."
You sound like Jack Nicholson in the Witches of Eastwick.
Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk ...
It's all fun* and games until there's human to human transmission.
(*Darwin award "fun")
There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it's not terribly unlikely.
Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It's weird reverse psychology with raw milk.
I'm kind of ok with that.
Well, except for them possibly harming their own children, who are blameless in such things.
It'd be fine if they were just endangering themselves, but the most likely way we get a more virulent bird flu strain is one of these idiots catching in while they also have the regular flu
Also was just found to be infecting rats for the first time ever documented.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, there's a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.
The price of beef is about to go the way of the price of eggs.
Down, right?
Down, right?
Just do this:
I’m back on the carnivore diet because it’s been really the only thing to help with my long-covid that has been on my ass ever since the pandemic started.
And now this is going to make that harder.
The same guy I hold responsible for my long-covid is going to get me fucked up yet again. How’s that for irony?
Surely some rich republican ranchers can get Trump's attention...