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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 72 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Somehow I doubt that we'll do nation blaming, like "China virus", as we did with COVID. This will just be "well nothing could have prevented it".

Also this vegan wants to remind you all that BOTH pandemics came from commercial animal consumption.

[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If this spreads I will definitely be calling it "Yankee plague"

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago

Burgerland plague.

But that’s Covid!

[–] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Soybeans never spread a disease that killes millions…

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago

so-far deregulation machine go brrr.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm watching you, Poison Ivy

[–] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Dont look inside my greenhouse

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

got nothing on sugarcane's kill count

[–] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

they're going to blame undocumented farmworkers doomjak

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

The "Spanish Flu" also likely originated form the US but wasn't named accordingly (Due to secrecy during WWI).

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If we called it the Califlu do you think it would get red states to start masking again?

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 59 points 4 days ago

again? they didn't even mask for the "chinaflu"

at this point I don't think you could even get blue states to mask up if you could prove the virus originated from trump personally.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump handed Biden a flu, it's only fair Biden hand Trump a flu too. All things balance the-democrat oooaaaaaaauhhh the-republican

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

After everything that's happened I would be genuinely surprised if even half this country bothered to take precautions for this one. this-is-fine

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago

A small part of me wants this to happen to make people mask again. But really that ain't gonna happen, and this is just gonna make things even worse.

[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The big wet boys are back in town. trump as Nurgle chaos god of disease with followers

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Praise be unto the plaguefather.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Biden culling the population once more before he gets to enjoy retirement.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, Jack biden-harbinger

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

The Darkest of Brandons

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago

u/birdflufutures

[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah cool, if only I could make infectious disease into a hobby. I love the four horseman and civilizational collapse.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

On the bright side amerikkka

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

does the proliferation indicate we're not dealing with the 60% mortalitiy kind of H5, since assumedly we'd be seeing scores of bodies in the streets, or do we not know yet

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is likely from cows, not human to human transmission.

so-far

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~Livestock manure isn't supposed to enter municipal wastewater. It typically gets composted or tossed in an anaerobic digester.~~

Never mind, according to the CDC the source could be milk from infected animals.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

Some talking heads on the news are saying it's "like the flu". I'm not saying they're wrong, but we went through this already on 2020. I'm just suspicious until we know more.

[–] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Is this another knock on effect of climate change?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe on the wild birds' side, but capitalists are turning it into a full on pandemic through factory farming practices while the US government politely asks them to act responsibly.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

Call of C'flulu

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

I'd say yes and no, not necessarily due to changing temperatures but due to huge quantities of bird livestock (in absolute cosmic horror conditions) but I guess loss of habitat and a polluted environment doesn't help much, animal industry is for sure the biggest drive of viral/bacterial diseases. Which is kinda poetically fitting tbh, considering the nightmare modern day factory farming is.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

It's mostly an effect of meat consumption.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can it be that California makes more tests?

[–] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago

This is sewage tests

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You do realize how much worse it would be right? Like if that is the case and this diagram is underselling it we are super super fucked.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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