Everyone in this thread worried because of how we handled the “last” pandemic… you should be more worried about how we’re handling the CURRENT pandemic you’ve been convinced is over because the rich people wanted you back in the office.
Covid is top 4 leading causes of death, makes you more susceptible to die from the top 3 causes, is disabling millions of people every year still, and destroys your immune system / Tcells similar to HIV. Aids wasnt discovered until around 10 years after people were first getting HIV
FML Bird Flu is going to be the next COVID…isn’t it?
Good thing we figured out a lot of the social distancing, WFH, and masking stuff last time, I guess.
While “next” is technically correct, it’ll be far worse than Covid was/is.
Covid was our practice round and we failed.
Not only is Bird Flu orders of magnitude more deadly than Covid, people are so thoroughly sick of pandemic protocols that we’ll never get the kind of mask adoption we saw during Covid and even that was abysmal.
Employers will never allow people to work from home again if they can help it, they’re still Fighting to claw the rest back now.This will likely be our last pandemic.
I don’t know that it’s that dire. “More deadly” doesn’t mean a disease will kill more people. A virus or bacteria has to be infectious enough to spread quickly, not kill enough people that are infected to allow people to spread it without causing it to die with them, but still be deadly enough to be noteworthy. COVID ticked all of those boxes. Bird Flu might as well, if it becomes human-to-human transmissible (which seems more likely every day), but I guess we’ll see.
That’s an interesting but grim point. Ebola, for example, is both very deadly and very infectious, but that combination means that outbreaks tend to burn out before spreading widely. One of the early things that scared me about COVID in late 2019 was the rumors of “asymptomatic spreading” that were coming out of China.
That wasn’t the only “oh shit” thing about COVID and the way things were handled early on, but it was a bad one.
I hate that people try to lecture others on how bad the last pandemic was handled but they haven’t even understood this very basic and intuitive property of infectious diseases.
To me it’s just ridiculous to somehow speak for “rationality”, “facts” or “the science”, only to proceed to ignore basic facts and evidence and resort to fearmongering instead.
Oh boy! Good thing I got a ton of N95 masks from the last one.
You mean the current one? The covid pandemic is still raging killing 2,000+ a month in the US alone and disabling millions a year. Its in the top 4 leading causes of death and makes you more susceptible to die from the top 3 causes
I got a 3M half mask with bayonet connectors, I’m good for round two!
And I’ll sleep better knowing how well we handled the last pandemic (nervous laughter).
But serious question time: now that it’s made it’s way to humans, does that mean we can start working on a vaccine?
According to the CDC, vaccines are already in the works.
I’m glad we don’t have someone actively impeding public health this time.
Yep. I still worry about that fucking asshole’s pro-virus fan club, though. You just know they’ll go out of their way just to contract H5N1 and “prove” it’s just a cold. And they’ll die in droves again, taking Innocent people with them.
That’s coz he’s asleep in court, facing hush money charges
Good news. Thanks!
Still no confirmed human to human transmission, they all worked at the same poultry farm. Likely not another world ending pandemic yet.
Then how did the two doctors get it?
Edit: Just read the article more closely and the grammar behind it isn’t really clear.
Two doctors and six staff members from the Regional Poultry Farm
This could mean either
A) The doctors and staff members are from the poultry farm.
or
B) The doctors are from the hospital and staff members are from the poultry farm.
I assumed B but I could be wrong.
Given that it straight up says everyone infected has had close ties to the poultry industry, and a doctor who works at the farm in question is quoted in the article, I think its safe to assume the infected doctors are 1: not human medical doctors, and 2: worked at the farm.
Ugh. AMP link.
just changed it. copied this link from somewhere else.
You are awesome :)
