We turned the meat industry into a disease factory because that’s more efficient, make sure the financial system incentives everybody in the industry to shut up and remain uncooperative with investigations and measures, rolled out the ads for people to travel all around the world so things can spread and have such an unhealthy political climate that even mentioning a risk in drinking raw milk drives up the sale of raw milk. What’s the worst that can happen, right?
H5N1. High five flu. No 1 left alive
Meat industry + destruction of natural habitats forcing wild animals into contact with domesticated animals or directly with humans + general climate change making the spread of diseases more easy…
The rate and intensity of pandemics is increasing and we are doing barely anything to address the root causes. Because that would mean to reduce some individuals profits and make some small adjustments to our consumption routines, while restoring nature that is sustaining us. And that is out of the question.
The rate and intensity of pandemics is increasing
And as usual, this was predicted, warned about, is happening and stubbornly ignored. One of those many cans kicked down the road until the pile is too big to kick and starts to blocks the road.
The rate and intensity of pandemics is increasing
Is it? I really don’t want to sound like I am downplaying this but is it increasing? People would get shit like polio and smallpox. We have had three pandemics in my life and two of them were isolated to 1-3 countries. Ebola and Sars.
pandemic != endemic.
Polio and smallpox were endemic. They were pretty bad, but as slowly evolving diseases once we got the vaccines down, we got them under control. Pandemics are new diseases w.o. efficient resistance / medical treatments or prevention
Ah shit, here we go again
Pandemic 2: Electric Bird Flu Boogaloo
Flu-galoo
Sponsored by Red Bull?
Just wait until enough MAGA heads have drunk raw milk out of pure spite and turn the bird flu into the MAGA Malady pandemic.
The first pandemic caused primarily by human stupidity…
The first pandemic caused primarily by human stupidity…
I was going to bring up the killing of cats right before the Black Plague of the 14th century but some searching online showed me that most historians think it was a factor but not the major factor.
So yeah I got nothing you might be right.
Yep. Cats and the Black Plague. Actually, they were a complicating factor for some. The Christians killed (primarily black) cats, as they deemed them helpers of the devil and therefor complicit in spreading the plague. The Jews, on the other side, kept cats to keep house and storage vermin-free. So the Christians thought the Jews were in league with the devil, so they killed them, too - at least that was one of the “reasons” for pogromes. And it is also a reason why there are way less black cats in Europe than colored ones. It is a crazy topic…
But even if they had not killed those cats, the Black Death would have come. Maybe it would have spread a tad slower, but not much.
Bad things are happening -> a minority caused it. All we have to is eliminate the minority and double down on ideas that failed us.
Guess humans haven’t changed much. On an unrelated note a friend of mine yesterday decided to tell me about the vast conspiracy of trans people to hurt girls and I am reconsidering our relationship.
My understanding is risk is low on this one as we already have a prepared and tested vaccine, and we have a known medicative treatment.
So it’d suck if it spreads but we at least have the tools to fight it on hand.
Unless a large subset or the population would inexplicably refuse to get vaccinated. 🤷
Oh come on, that would never happen!
Vaccines don’t work when 1/2 the population refuses to take it.
They sure put a damper on the spread of COVID, even with a bunch of idiots refusing to take them.
Covid had a ~5% mortality rate at the peak, H5N1 has a mortality rate of ~56%, a damper won’t be enough
Something makes me think people would be more willing to take vaccines when facing down a life or death coin flip. At that point their “concerns” over long term effects don’t matter as much.
They were facing life or death and they chose horse dewormer…
Yes, they do, wtf. It just may not achieve herd immunity.
The unvaccinated people become mutation factories and create new variants that we don’t have a vaccine for yet, that’s why you need a booster every year.
If you’re vaccinated and surrounded by unvaccinated people. You may as well be unvaccinated.If you’re vaccinated and surrounded by unvaccinated people. You may as well be unvaccinated.
This is exactly what anti-vax people say. Vaccination helps, regardless.
Are you retarded?
Anti-vax people depend on heard immunity bullshit. My argument is that not enough people are getting vaccinated and you think that means I’m Anti-vax?
Jesus Christ I’m glad stupid isn’t contagious.
Get fucked asswipe.Getting vaccinated helps and is advisable, regardless of whether a mutation occurs in addition to the target strain.
And yes, anti-vax people say it doesn’t matter if you get vaccinated, just like you. But thanks for proving yourself to be as vapid as them, too.
“experts warn of potential” is journalist speak for “I didn’t actually read the paper”
Please not another one…
If it wasn’t for everyone dying and the schools closing another lockdown wouldn’t bother me much. Work from home for the most part, only drive in when I have to, no traffic when I do, see a lot more wildlife in my city, wear a mask so I don’t have to smell stuff and people, no one hugging me besides my family.
Oh boy, time to risk us all again. At least it’ll help cull the antivaxers out a little.
Well, if this was 2018 or lower, I’d not be super worried. Post 2020 though…this is terrifying…
I feel dirty admitting this, but this time I’m on the side of disinformation. More lives will be saved by saving our nation from the fascists. This time, I won’t be trying to talk any sense into them. I want them to ignore the science and distrust medicine.
Our nation’s most vulnerable groups as well as our planet’s normal (non-conservative) people are on the verge of being permanently oppressed and/or exterminated. If stepping aside and allowing the oppressors to kill themselves will prevent that outcome, then we need to grow a spine and do exactly that. Let’s encourage them to shrink their voting base while voting is still relevant.
The thing about disease is that it spreads.
There are people today dealing with serious complications of COVID even years later who were infected by stupid people doing stupid selfish things.
Everyone suffers if morons become willing petri dishes.
I thought human to human transfer was very rare for this one.
So far. But the thing with viruses is they are susceptible to mutations.
We’re already seeing it jump across several mammalian lines. Probably only a matter of time.
Well the jokes on the virus since global warming is going to take me out before that happens.
The thing about fascists is, they will kill and oppress more of us than a poorly managed disease. And it will be permanent.
