• @[email protected]
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    No. They cannot make Trump Pandemic 2 a thing in this timeline.

    I don’t know your names because I am isolated from my memories in here, but once the simulation is over I’m going to slap every single one of you on the so-called “creative” team!

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    Every epidemic we’ve had has been zoological. SARS, AIDS, MERS, Covid, etc. Why don’t we… i dunno… not farm animals? Nah, that’s too logical

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    I am actually curious to see if the crowd who said the ‘covid vaccine did more harm than good’ will get to see in action what happens when the whole world vaccines against the bird flu pandemic and the USA goes with Cptn Brainworms anti-vax stance.

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    Dairy herds in Nevada

    “There are things you must know. The village is dying; the signs are everywhere. Withering crops… dying brahmin… …sick children.”

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    Oh, the pandemic-industrial complex is back on the menu. We’ve spent decades industrializing agriculture into viral petri dishes, then act shocked when nature mutates around our hubris. Cows are just the latest domino—watch the blame shift to “wet markets” or migratory birds while factory farms keep hosing antibiotics into troughs.

    But sure, let’s hyperventilate about proximity to doom. Never mind that zoonotic spillover’s been a ticking clock since we decided monoculture and profit margins trump ecosystem logic. The real virus here? Capitalism with a side of amnesia.

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    Finally a silver lining to a trade war. Shut down those borders and stew in your own bird flu variant.

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    Making America great again: the USA will be leading the world in new pandemics. By crippling the safeguards, removing science and news… because in chaos and death, dictators can continue to hold power over a fearful and panicked population.

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    It’s a good thing we keep historically unprecedented numbers of live animals in historically unprecedented close quarters. The beef and dairy industry has made some great strides in ending the human race

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    A perfect time to get rid of the CDC and the NIH. Also, let’s stop funding medical research. No sharing medical information that might make the ruling dumb shits look bad- thats treason.

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    Good timing - we’ve got a President who has experience in handling pandemics.

  • @[email protected]
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    In response to an emailed series of questions, a spokesperson for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the agency still deems the risk to human health for the general public to be low.

    For how much longer can we trust their pronouncements? All the US government departments are under the control of compulsively lying anti-science Nazis.

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        I’m surprised too. I thought is was all shut down or the workers fired until only the cleaning crew was left.

  • @[email protected]
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    Lalalalalalalalalala I can’t hear you lalalalalalaalalalalaalalalala no such thing as viruses lalalalallalalalalalala it’s just a cold lalalalalalalalalalalala vaccines bad lalalalalalalalalalallalalala your grandma lived a long life lalalalalalalallalalalala - RFK Jr

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      your grandma lived a long life

      Hmm.

      So hypothetically, is a human avian flu pandemic expected to be like COVID-19, where mostly the elderly get killed?

      Or is it like the Spanish flu, which is believed to have killed by inducing cytokine storms, where the disease triggers the immune system to go into very high levels of activity that ultimately cause the human to kill itself? Because there, it was mostly the young and “healthy”, who had a strong immune response, that were killed.

      kagis

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1

      Review of patient ages and outcomes reveals that H5N1 attacks are especially lethal in pre-adults and young adults, while older victims tend to have milder attacks and to survive.[37][38][39] This is consistent with the frequent development of a cytokine storm in the affected.[40] Few persons over 50 years of age seem to have become infected by H5N1, and very few have died following an H5N1 attack.[41] Instead, the age-fatality curve of H5N1 influenza attacks in humans resembles that of the 1918 Spanish pandemic flu, and is the opposite of the mortality curve of seasonal flu strains, since seasonal influenza preferentially kills the elderly and does not kill by cytokine storm.

      Welp. I guess that pretty explicitly answers that.

      Grandma may be the one burying people, not the one getting buried.

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        That’s the one you picked lol? Not the no such thing as viruses eh? Well, thanks for correcting part of it I guess.

        All sorts of shit could happen with H5N1. Maybe it plays out like H1N1 (Spanish Flu) as you said. Maybe the mutation that makes it transmissible between humans also makes it more like H3N2 or maybe it mutates on its own we get it just in time for the annual flu outbreak and we see a reassortment with H3N2. Or maybe the prevalence of H5N1 in farming communities gives it the chance for reassortment with H3N5 and that is what gives it the ability to transmit from human to human.

        H3N2 kills all sorts of old folks.

        Research showing the elderly are particularly vulnerable to severe outcomes during H3N2-dominant flu seasons: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121031/

        A study demonstrating how reassortment between H5N1 and H3N2 can lead to highly pathogenic strains: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842136/

        Anything can happen homie, it just needs time and inaction.

        Edit: structure

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        Grandma may be the one burying people, not the one getting buried

        Grandma will complain that kids don’t wanna work anymore, complain about her retirement fund vanishing before her eyes, and complain about shortages for a very specific soda she loves and her insulin in expensive.

        Because of leftists dei atheist mooslin nazis.

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        Stop spamming for a for-profit search engine company. We don’t need to see your ads and they don’t need your help.

        So tired of seeing this daily “hail corporate” on Lemmy.