US prepares for bird flu pandemic with $176M Moderna vaccine deal
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Are we going to “prepare” for bird flu the way we “prepared” for COVID?
Will we first pretend it’s not really happening, then quickly declare it’s solved while people continue to die and be injured in long lasting ways?
Forgive me for not having high hopes
Will we first pretend it’s not really happening, then quickly declare it’s solved while people continue to die and be injured in long lasting ways?
Forgive me for not having high hopes
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One key difference is that we actually have a vaccine in storage for bird flu. COVID-19 was a surprise new thing that we had to develop from scratch during the pandemic.
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Oh man, someone figured out how to do the impossible - turn a bunch of MAGAs into Vegans. . .
Oh wait. Nah, they'll just buy their milk, beef and chicken from Jim Bob who doesn't vaccinate his herd/flock.
Oh wait. Nah, they'll just buy their milk, beef and chicken from Jim Bob who doesn't vaccinate his herd/flock.
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You forgot the step where we find another country to blame for creating it in a lab, and then start posting a bunch of racist memes blaming that country without any actual evidence.
To be fair, China does have blame on it's shoulders for not addressing the outbreak correctly at the start, and suppressing scientists and journalists trying to report on it, but strangely the right-wingers always just ignore the ACTUAL factual thing you can blame China for and jump straight to the unproven hypothesis.
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Write to your state reps, people!
Edit: Where I grew up, in Western Europe, outbreaks on farms are dealt with swiftly and without leaving anything up to chance. Livestock is -as sad as it is in and of itself- destroyed and surrounding farms in X amount of radius is being quarantined to ensure nothing got out. If it did, that farm is next.
It seems one has to deal with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy entering the food stream once to really get people to freak out and pay attention.
Sadly, something makes me doubt whether even that would have any impact in some areas around here. If there's no brains for prions to eat, what then?!
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Bill Gates wants to upgrade the microchip inside you that came with the COVID vaccine.
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I suppose we need 40% less vaccines, as the maga imbecilles will refuse it anyways.
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I'm not worried about the bird flu I already had the bird flu I'm worried about the turtle flu
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Is that your other ARM? Or is it upgrading the ARM with the old flu shot?
Old daddish horrible off-color joke Tuesday. /s of course is mandatory. As an official olde farte I rely on those shots to minimize serious problems.
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I thought the turtles all got it from the birds. They both infest the same ponds around here (huge numbers of turtles, huge flocks of geese).
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That's why first version came with 5G. It allows wireless software updates.
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I'm sticking with what I know works: hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin washed down with liquid colloidal silver mixed with 25-percent bleach and inserting an ultraviolet light tube in my bunghole twice a day.
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Look, say what you will about the origins of COVID, but I've made up my mind. Having been sick twice in three months after our infant started daycare, COVID was absolutely created in a daycare facility. The crap she's brought home was so much worse than COVID was for me.
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Clearly! Since the vaccine was all a part of mind control over 5G it's just an OTA.
edit:NINJAD!
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Same, except I keep the light up my arse 24/7, so I can see what I'm doing.
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Comments section did not disappoint.
I'll go next:
At least cows can't remove their masks since their elbows go the wrong way.
I'll go next:
At least cows can't remove their masks since their elbows go the wrong way.
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they've culled tens of millions of chickens to prevent the spread, but cows are too expensive and slow-growing to be culled without massive pushback from agribusiness.
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Fortunately they will only need to produce enough vaccine for 1/2 the US population. The rest will try drinking bleach, eating horse medication or wearing magic bracelets. The best part will come when someone tries to convince Congress that the vaccine makes you magnetic, by attempting to stick non-iron based products to their clothing and watching them drop to the floor.
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Given that many farms are refusing to cooperate, there's a small but very vocal community of raw milk drinking smoothbrains, and the general animosity toward vaccines now present in a sizeable percentage of our population, I feel like the US is fighting this with one hand tied behind our collective back.
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The U.S. has always reacted this way.
At least as long as I can remember. Which is all the way back to the AIDS epidemic. Plenty of conspiracy theory / it's God plan garbage floating around back then.
Dealing with anti-intellectuals is a constant drain.
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Cue up photo-shopped pics of "Libz sitting on Tesluh roofs to get WiFi updates"
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You're citing an "Opinion" piece as evidence? Ooof.The last pandemic most likely came from a lab
Opinion | Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.www.nytimes.com
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This post deservers more up votes.
It applies to SO many people.
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I'll be there when it is ready. Gotta collect all the vaccinations! Need to put it next to my H1N1 vaccine I got in 2010
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Guessing if The Donald gets elected again & the bird flew jumps to humans and becomes an epidemic, The Donald is going to react differently (other than the initial ignoring COVID part) since he now understands "his" voters don't want vaccines - and he essentially got a PR black eye for the vaccines with his faithful.
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Given how many states and municipalities worked to strip public health departments of any power/regulation/tracking and monitoring capabilities as Covid simmered down the outside world should be impressed that we have any visibility on the potential bird flu pandemic at all.
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Here's why raw milk drinkers need to be concerned about bird flu in US dairy cows
Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite an outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows. Federal officials warn about the health risks of drinking raw milk at any time, but especially during the outbreak.
apnews.com
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It's pretty much from scratch for the current strain anyway – the very old vaccines developed around a decade ago (IIRC) have a pretty low efficacy. Hence the need for new ones.
Which makes it a kinda "fucked up if you do, fucked up if you don't" – curb the potential infection soon enough for it not to spread, everybody things it's a nothingburger and objects to any sane CDC policies that actually curbed the last one – during the next pandemic, allowing it to spread beyond all control.
Not curb it soon enough, you know the score...
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Fair as a general point, but poultry farms really do get bird flu a lot more often than dairy farms.
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I don't think it is really a big deal whether our health and food safety agencies are handling this crisis competently or not because pretty soon the courts will be taking away their power to act anyway.
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