• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If it escapes under Trump’s leadership can we call it the trump virus? Please?

  • teft@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The constant edging with bird flu mania is going to make people not pay attention when it actually pops off.

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      2 months ago

      The problem is that the CDC isn’t getting to say anything right now, so we can assume that the moment they get to talk about it, the stupidest people you know are going to go “woah this was really sudden! They clearly made it in a lab!”

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        2 months ago

        That’s actually a really good counter point that I hadn’t thought of.

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          2 months ago

          Thank you, I’ve spent a lot of time giving myself brain damage so I can understand the perspective of conservatives.

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            2 months ago

            Huff a lot of glue or paint, maybe ram a crayon or two in your brain. Then you might get close to understanding.

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      This is it popping off. We’ve already lost a huge portion of chickens in the US. We’re seeing dozens of cases in humans. And it’s in cows too. The only reason it doesn’t feel like a big deal is because we as a nation aren’t doing anything about it yet, only individual farms are. Same way COVID went from “is this a big deal?” to “oh fuck shut everything down”.

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      2 months ago

      If we just stop testing it will go away like magic. Did you learn nothing from Covid?

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      2 months ago

      The little boy who called bird flu, but I think the call here is that it is difficult to feel safe behind the idea that it does not cross the species barrier when you have bird flu in cows.

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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately people will just think “Hey I’ve seen this bird flu in the news and it didn’t seem bad.” Then they ignore all virologist recommendations and we have a second pandemic.

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          2 months ago

          Too little information is as bad as too much, it is a difficult balance. The problem with information dissemination last time was not oversaturation but that people latched onto ridiculous conspiracy narratives and that derives from lack of basic education not too much news.

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    2 months ago

    No coincidences, trump will always bring disease and ruin. You keep welcoming the fox back into the henhouse, America.

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    2 months ago

    The mask thing is going to be so funny again… I guess … ughhhhhhhhhhhh. Subscribe to the WHO if you haven’t already

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      2 months ago

      I’d be more than willing to build special warehouses for the unvaccinated manned by doctors and midwives with tons of knowledge about holistic medicine and essential oils, get them out of real hospitals

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    Maybe I’m late to the party, but do you think that the actual plan might be to kill as many of us as possible to weaken any potential uprising?

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      Ah, the classic baseless dummy conspiracy theory of governments murdering own people for a reason or another.

      Edit: typo it -> or

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        Oh man, my comment wasn’t totally serious but totally based on fear. I guess that’s exactly how conspiracies start. If my rhetorical-turned-accidental-theory turns out to be right, I’m gonna be super-bummed.

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      Who’s plan? The ketamine addicts or the pants shitter?

      They aren’t smart enough to develop a disease, but they are stupid enough to think that if they don’t do anything about it, no one will notice (don’t test for covid and the numbers will go down)