Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction
Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction
This year has been marked by concerning developments in the virus’ spread, including widespread detections in wastewater and mutations observed in the virus.
This would be a good moment for every country to be investing heavily in vaccines. A bird flu pandemic will most likely be far worse than COVID was, and the virus is all around us just waiting for the right mutation.
Instead, the USA has put RFK Jr, an extreme paranoid antivax fool, in charge of the Department of Health, and the Republicans are talking about banning most or all vaccines and forbidding health professionals from recommending vaccines. There is absolutely no logic or science behind this - it's based on irrational feelings. This could get a large chunk of the US population killed quite soon, worsen the pandemic for every other country around the world, and set back vaccine development and production for the whole world.
This could go down in history as one of the most self-destructive political decisions ever made. It will make other idiocies like Brexit and tariffs look like a walk in the park.
Would be interesting to see the US take a nosedive not seen before in history
I'm sure they'll find some scapegoat somewhere that they'll lynch and then everyone is happy and noone has to take responsibility for the millions of deaths
Just blame the gays, Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, Chinese, poor, homeless, mentally ill, whatever vulnerable group, easy peasy
I know lots of antivaxxers spread Covid while traveling and the avian pandemic will likely have just as much help if not more now. Capitalism giving those fat greasy dollars the ability to travel anywhere, so there go tourist destinations.
To be fair, RFK Jr has not been approved yet. He almost certainly will be, but so far he's just been nominated.
bird flu pandemic will most likely be far worse than COVID was, and the virus is all around us just waiting for the right mutation.
I keep hearing this but its unclear to me why we should expect this strain to be worse than say, the Swine Flu that hit several years before Covid? I know it caused a few deaths but was generally pretty forgettable and short lived in peoples awareness.
OK but my lungs never recovered from swine flu. It wasn't as bad as it could've been, but it's not like it was no big deal.
And back then vaccines were apolitical
With RFK about to be appointed, this might be the thing that takes the US from a superpower to a super duper lepper colony avoided by the rest of the world.
Nope. Whatever happens in the US, will happen everywhere. Shutdown always happens too late. RFK will just speed up the process, but basically we're all fucked.
I'm hoping we get a vaccine that confers really good immunity to bird flu and its 50% mortality rate.
A good vaccine means the whole thing will just sort itself out.
These fuckers tried to kill my immunocompromised family member with COVID. Fuck em.
What fuckers did what? Are you implying that the covid virus was engineered?
Edit: geez, what with the downvotes? I'm asking a question because I don't understand what he was saying
Nah. Callous disregard for masking and basic safety precautions in the face of a relatively well understood virus.
Chump and him being too vain to wear a mask. The corporations that fell right in line with relaxed masking. All the fuckers that got angry with me for wearing a mask in public. I'm talking red in the face, pissed off at me. Willfull ignorance is the greatest sin and I hope they all suffer profoundly before they die shitting their kidneys out of their eyes.
What sucks is, the first 2 flus i remember spredding (swine flu + Ebola) i paniced and thought it would affect me. it didnt.
Then covid hit. I thought it wouldnt affect me. It did.
Now bird flu is going around, its not going affect me. It did/didnt? I dont know.....
There have been a couple hundred zoonotic cases of bird flu in humans, luckily not human-to-human transmissible, yet (as far as we know).
I love how bizarre this headline and pic combo would seem to anyone who hasn't paid enough attention to know the wider context 😄
"Gee, those are some mighty peculiar birds, I reckon!"
