Not The Onion @lemmy.world ylai @lemmy.ml 3 wk. ago

Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1

futurism.com Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1

Raw milk enthusiasts are dead set on being infected by the H5N1 aviary flu virus by drinking contaminated and unpasteurized cow milk.

Not the Onion @lemmy.ml ylai @lemmy.ml 3 wk. ago

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Anti-science has gained too much traction in recent years, I doubt USA will survive if H5N1 starts spreading from human to human.
- Covid has a mortality rate of about 3% while H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 56%.
  If it starts spreading from person to person and it has an r value similar to Covid, we're fucked.
  
  Probably not. If a virus is too deadly, it kills its hosts before it can spread. That's why SARS didn't turn into a pandemic.
  
  Covid has a mortality rate of about 3%
  
  hah great, makes the 1 in 50k risk of a certain vaccine's side effects even more ridiculous to think about
- At this point, if they're asking for the scientifically specified strain of virus to be served to them, I'm not sure it sounds like "anti science" , more like "braggadocious risk taking"
- Honestly a little bit of me is okay with that. I am just so tired of all the shit.
  
  Same. I've been voting for "Giant Meteor" since 2016... It never wins though...
  
  Goddamn old people voting in primaries never gives Giant Meteor a chance!
Let me guess. These are the same people who refuse vaccines with miniscule mortality rates, but are demanding milk infected with a virus that has more than a 50% mortality rate in humans? 🤔

Also, how is intentional getting infected to aquire immunity better than doing nothing at all? I mean, just don't worry about it. If you get infected then you're either dead or immune, and if you don't get infected you didn't need that immunity anyway. Plus, you've saved money by not buying your weirdo raw cow juice.
- These people show up on my Facebook, they just want the opposite of what the government says no matter what, often they imagine the government saying something just so they can do the opposite.
  
  Ah yes, and just like in Corona days, a serious number of them then dies, and the remaining ones will cry “why is the government doing this to us?!”_
  
  America has an Oppositional Defiant Disorder problem, it seems.
UC Davis researcher Michael Payne told the LA Times. "Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense."

I, too, remember when this was more of a bug and not necessarily a feature.
- If we give these knuckleheads a bit more time they'll reinvent variolation 500 years late.
- Oh, but they've got immune systems, you see.
Wow. Terminally stupid. All while you can get immunity from pasteurized milk, just without the risk.

Can those people be put under observation for "suicide risk", please?
We really need to perfect space travel so we can all go our separate ways.
- Won't work. Eventually, some asshole will fly a fleet ovet and demand you change how you live your life for "reasons".
- Can't we send these people to space right now?
In this instance, ok. Bodily autonomy and all that.
- They can't vote in November if they kill themselves.
  
  Yeah, but if they end up contagious before kicking it then we could end up in another pandemic…
Okay, you can't just put the word enthusiast after things.

What the hell is a raw milk enthusiast!!!
- Oh you know what the hell it is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Mammals?
  
  One would hope.
Go ahead, go start a new pandemic
So they take up precious hospital resources when their enthusiasm gets the terribly sick.

Great.
For the flavour.

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