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[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Biden's strategy for curbing excess real estate demand is starting to look promising

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't worry it's gonna spread around the world, China will immediately react and alert everyone and then the US will call it the Chinese Flu and acknowledge ~~it~~ all cases that appear ~~from that point onward~~ until investers determine line has to go up more quicker.

First part is basically what happened with the spanish flu

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Wait til it shows up in China then they'll acknowledge it and blame it on the Chinese.

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

The sharp slant upwards is actually cool and good and not worrying at all /s

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbh at least he gave out cash and instituted a lockdown, however brief. As soon as Biden came in it was Back To Normal

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Yep, it's funny, because as dangerous as he was and is for many populations, he was actually kind of decent at pandemics.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately

[–] D61@hexbear.net 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry, as soon as Trump is sworn in the liberals will remember that pandemics exist.

[–] Torenico@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And genocides. Wow, can you believe that??

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

tbf democrats this time around have just decided to lean into the evil shit they were supporting before the election instead of performatively opposing it after the fact

[–] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Remember "kids in cages"? Yeah, its about to make a comeback!

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 57 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Society-wide veganism via massive livestock pandemic is going on my 2025 bingo card.

[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

I fucking wish but people would rather die

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago

I'm gonna stop being vegan if everyone else does it!

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

are the other states not testing?

cant wait for "it's just the flu" round two because it's literally a flu

[–] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago

it’s just flu

manhattan

[–] MrPiss@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Important to remember that there is already a vaccine for h5n1. It would need to be updated if it mutates to a point where human to human infections are consistent. It should be faster to get something out than it took for covid.

I obviously have no idea what it would look like if it does mutate to human to human transmission but I'm not an omega doomer about it. We cant predict when or even if a process like evolution will produce a certain result. The US and other countries will obviously let it rip so stay safe if it does.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Feels like predicting the next pandemic is like predicting the next recession at this point

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

Like how there's no need to because we're already in one?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

In the sense that both happen at a way higher rate than what we've seen lately & we know the quiet period is purely by chance?

Yes.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it’s not coming from “bad country” and isn’t “effecting the gays” like monkeypox. So you alarmists should stop trying to control our rugged individualism and push vaccines onto us.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without a doubt, if they do acknowledge it, it will be blamed on China 100% like the last time.

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[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago
[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Mmm chimken virus 🤤

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Years that now repeat forever, 2016, 2019, 2020 soon to be 2024.

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

It's like a dark Chinese calendar.

Oh I see its the Year of the Trump, that means next year is the year of Heather Heyer

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[–] borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What would I even do to prevent being infected this time?

[–] jack@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Stop eating meat, which is currently the primary infection vector

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Same as last time: social distance (abstinence is best, but if you must be around humans, stand away from them), keep your face covered, wash your hands at least five times a day.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don’t have a source, but I read somewhere earlier that a teen in Canada is in intensive care with it, and there’s no connection between the teen and fowl or livestock. There has been a couple of these in the last couple months. I like to think of it as the couple engine turn overs before you get the lawnmower started. There was also something about it infecting about farm I saw, which is tre bad because the pigs can host human flu and this one at the same time and possibly generate the jump.

I wonder about whether large swathes of the public are capable of doing quarantines or taking safety measures… I mean they’re definitely done with Covid, but if this kicks off it will be way scarier way fast with hospitals collapses and bodies rotting in houses, so maybe that’s enough. But honestly we’re so far into hyper reality mode that they also might not be physically capable of acting rationally or believing things that run counter to what they want to believe.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

but if this kicks off it will be way scarier way fast with hospitals collapses and bodies rotting in houses, so maybe that’s enough

After everything, I would honestly just expect for reactionaries to claim its fake AI footage/images or whatever. Half this country threw a massive temper tantrum over simply being asked to wear a mask. I truly wish you're right, but I have no hope left for anything even approaching a rational response if this does evolve into another pandemic.

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't this the one that had like a 50% mortality rate?

[–] Des@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

in theory but if it goes human to human it could be more like 5 to 10%.

i mean real spanish flu time. this one would be bodies in the streets.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you're coming into the office, right? you-have-been-promoted

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Lazy ass dead people expecting handouts. Get off your deceased ass and work

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[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Welp... I'm literally building air purifiers for around my house and workplace.

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago

Yep, I've built some already in different configurations, some using PC fans too to make it quieter. These things legit can save lives, the higher flow filters actually remove aerosolized viruses faster than HEPA.

search corsi-rosenthal box, comrades

[–] regul@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

so-far

Once they hit the hog farms, because pigs are very close to us medically, an incredibly infectious human to human variant is just a matter of time.

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