chapotraphouse

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

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

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

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

Fucking funny that Trump will manage another pandemic

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

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

are the other states not testing?

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

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.

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.

call it the KFC flu

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

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

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.

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

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

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.