Summary
A new H5N1 bird flu variant has become “endemic in cows,” with cases detected in Nevada and Arizona, raising concerns about human transmission.
Experts warn that without intervention, the outbreak will continue, but Trump has cut CDC staff and halted flu vaccination campaigns.
The virus’s spread coincides with a severe flu season, increasing the risk of mutation.
The administration has also stopped sharing flu data with the WHO and shifted its containment strategy away from culling infected poultry, raising fears of inadequate response.
People confusing this with COVID might be in for a surprise because if this becomes a human pandemic it will likely be much worse.
The difference being that Covid took a scientific breakthrough to make a vaccine for (as various factors about the virus were unprecedented) while flu variants are very much a known thing as far as virology goes.
The feds already have a reserve of human-safe H5N1 vaccines, the only thing preventing them from using that when SHTF is ideology. It will be both completely prepared for and completely preventable.
You think we’ll have enough?
Fascists are actively slashing funding, firing experts, cutting programs. Research labs are currently in shambles. The future secretary of health is a fucking anti-vaxer.
You thought covid was bad? We’re going to experience a pandemic with no government action first hand.
assuming the strain used in that reserve will be effective against whatever variant makes a breakthrough to humans. note that current H5 vaccine candidates are determined based on animal studies and a variant that jumps from an animal to a human might show substantial variation that we could need to change the strain in the vaccines. it would be faster than before thanks to mRNA vaccines but I would think that even just within the USA, a sufficient roll out with an updated vaccine would at best take a couple months assuming people would be willing to get vaccinated. Between the antivax people in US and parts of the world not receiving vaccine quickly enough, there would be ample room for such a H5 to take hold and have devastating effects. Covid could still seem like a walk in the park despite having mRNA tech ready to go now.
Agreed. Maybe if we didn’t have so many goddamn Republicans, especially with power and platforms. Even under Kamala, it’d be bad, but with these chucklefucks in charge right now…
This is seriously the dumbest and probably most preventable timeline. Well, except for all the goddamn idiots and apathetic people in the country.
Sigh.
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After fucking it up on a global pandemic there were people attacking the Capitol to defend him. He’s just trying to repeat that achievement.
Aw shit, here we go again.
Calling it now: we have another pandemic during Trump’s current term.
Conspiracy theorists will go “isn’t it weird there’s always a pandemic while trump is president, must be the Democrats/Jews/Illuminati/“The Regime” controlling everything, Plandemic am a right?”
Couldn’t possibly be Trump removing all safeguards against pandemics…
I hope it will be called “Trump plague” or something this time around.
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“Trump Flu 2” to emphasize this is happening AGAIN
Trump pandemic 2:The Flu Boogaloo
When it’s in California, it’s “God’s wrath”, when it’s under Trump, it’s “just a thing that happens, nothing to be done.”
You sound like Jack Nicholson in the Witches of Eastwick.
And to the rest of the world, it will be the “Trump Pandemic”.
The second trump pandemic. We already had a “trump pandemic.”
Can this be passed through milk? Maybe the Fascism problem will solve itself if Bobby Brainworm convinces all the fascists to drink more raw milk …
It’s all fun* and games until there’s human to human transmission.
(*Darwin award “fun”)
There are cases of a couple dairy workers getting mild cases of bird flu from getting raw milk splashed in their eye while working, so yes it’s not terribly unlikely.
And cats dying of it after drinking raw milk and eating raw food products.
Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It’s weird reverse psychology with raw milk.
I’m kind of ok with that.
Well, except for them possibly harming their own children, who are blameless in such things.
It’d be fine if they were just endangering themselves, but the most likely way we get a more virulent bird flu strain is one of these idiots catching in while they also have the regular flu
And then refusing to isolate or wear a mask. While being unvaccinated.
They’re basically dirty people.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they started refusing to ever wash their hands.
It reminds me a lot of the Herman Cain Awards.
What’s next? Surely these people wouldn’t be dumb enough to drink bleach.
Yeah, let alone inject it, or try to cure disease with a lightbulb suppository! I’m so glad americans are all rational people, and there’s not a significant voting bloc of willfully misinformed dingbats ready to slurp down whatever obvious idiotic lie gets shat out in their general direction by their orange fuhrer!
Dairy farmer here, who fought this crap off when we still didnt know what it was.
Bird flu contaminated raw milk in cats, yeah it will kill the shit out of them. Its what helped us figure out what it was in the first place. Nothing confirmed so far as humans being infected from consumption that i am aware of currently, but i personally wouldnt try it.
The dairy workers that got bird flu. It was pinkeye that popped positive for h5. Probably splashback from either milk or fecal. It wasnt really a big deal other than conjunctivitis sucks.
But if you drink raw milk, you are playing russian roulette as patient zero at this point. Dont do it.
It seems so. I’ve been buying ultra-pasteurized which may be sufficient.
Yes it can be and the problem is these idiots are also gonna give that milk to their children. Who don’t deserve to suffer for the sins of their parents.
Also was just found to be infecting rats for the first time ever documented.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, there’s a case of two exclusively indoor cats catching it. One prominent theory is that the humans in the household passed it to them.
Yes, its being tracked in via fecal matter on your shoes.
Raw catfood has infected some cats as well.
Think about how many cats aren’t being reported.
Like, if my cat drops dead I’m just burying her. No one would ever know.
If the 5 strays that hang outside my apartment died of it I’d just bury them too. No one would have a clue.
This dude buries cats.
What should I do with them? Eat them?
Yes. I should eat them.
Great point, and H5N1 can kill cats within like 24 hours (not sure if that’s exposure or first symptoms). So, you’re not paying close attention to your cat for even just a matter of hours, it dies, you don’t know why, and just bury it.
RIP NYC
The price of beef is about to go the way of the price of eggs.
Down, right?
Down, right?
See, if you bury your head in the sand, the virus can’t get you
Well, ya know, it’s primarily a respiratory disease among humans. You literally aren’t likely to catch if if your head is buried in sand. And once you suffocate or whatever, you won’t have to worry about the flu.
LMAO first time seeing this. Perfect.
This is the kind of outside the box thinking that makes this nation great.
Thanks Mr. President, mission accomplished (you can golf now we got this)
Well, inside the sand thinking.
Just do this:
- stop testing,
- stick a lightbulb up their rear
- put some horse paste in their feed
- disinfectant in their water
- ???
- Profit
I’m back on the carnivore diet because it’s been really the only thing to help with my long-covid that has been on my ass ever since the pandemic started.
And now this is going to make that harder.
The same guy I hold responsible for my long-covid is going to get me fucked up yet again. How’s that for irony?
Can you do fish or pork? Those two don’t seem to be effected
Yep! But I add ghee to the fish because it’s too lean.
My complaint is mostly due to the threat of dwindling variety. And beef is my favorite.
Ah, find a local farmer, buy a full cows cut asap before the price spikes, toss the 500lbs of beef in a deep freezer. Bam profit?
Eat fish like the Japanese do. They live the longest for a reason.
I’m eating vegetarian, mostly vegan, mostly for those reasons.
The Okinawans, in particular, are known for their longevity. Their traditional diet is largely vegetarian.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/okinawa-diet#the-diet
The traditional Okinawa diet is low in calories and fat while high in carbs. It emphasizes vegetables and soy products alongside occasional — and small — amounts of noodles, rice, pork, and fish.
You might want to read this.
Basically: it’s likely that the old age thing is mostly traced to bureaucratic errors
counter argument: taco rice and spam isn’t actually healthy, but lying about obachan being dead so you can keep pocketing her pension means you can buy more chu-hai.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/530073/scientist-snares-ig-noble-gong-for-work-debunking-blue-zones
I’ve read that the healthiest amount of meat is around one serving a week.
Bad idea. We’re at a point now where an all fish diet would actually poison you. We’ve dumped so much shit into the water that tends to bioaccumulate, and since big fish tend to eat smaller ones…
For sure! In before the bird flu spreads to fish somehow…
Surely some rich republican ranchers can get Trump’s attention…
Moo Flu.
Trump flu.
Maybe it will get people to start drinking plant based milk if the price of course milk skyrockets like it has with eggs. All the IGF-1 in dairy isn’t good for you and could even be part of the reason for the rise in colorectal cancer (the amount of dairy we consume nowadays in nuts).
I mainly drink milk in the form of half and half for coffee. Obviously, plant milk is garbage for this purpose.
Really it’s not. Grocery chains carry good alternatives even in really rural areas nowadays. If you haven’t tried one in the last few years the options out now are quite a bit better. I typically use Planet Oat in my coffee.
I use almond, soy, and/or oat milk for my coffee and tea and like it alright. Different strokes for different folks.
I usually have a little milk around the house for cooking sauces and things. Something like soy or almond milk don’t make good substitutes. I can’t remember the last time I just drank a glass of milk.
I haven’t had cows milk in years. Somehow all my sauces and things are still turning out delicious! Lots of plant milk is flavored or sweetened. Buying regular/unsweetened almond or oat milk will work for most cases. I am extremely partial to oat milk and I would honestly drink a glass of it
I wish oat milk didn’t tear my guts up, because it’s easily the best plant milk I’ve had.
I’ve heard that pea milk tastes pretty neutral
I’ll have to give it a try if I ever see some, I think all I’ve ever seen here are soy, almond, rice, and oat.
It drives me fucking nuts that in the US sweetened soy/almond milk is the default. Sometimes the unsweetened even costs a few cents more.
Haha corn subsidies go brrrrrrrr
Have you tried powdered milk? I like it because it’s shelf stable. We use plant milk for most drinks and cereal, powdered milk for cooking.
Pumpkin seed milk is so good. Too bad it’s hard to come by. Harder still for zero sugar versions.
Colour me intrigued, have never come across it before…
…and brand recommendations for the zero-sugar variety?
I got it once at Walmart. That was a few years ago. Haven’t seen it since.
As for zero sugar version, I doubt it exists unless you make it yourself. But I’m too lazy.
They’d probably raise the price of alternative milk as well to match, just to price gauge people
The price of alternative bean juices is pre-gouged. It does not take $8/gallon to blend oats. It does not take $8/gallon to blend soybeans. It costs far far far more than $4/gallon to raise a cow, keep the female cows pregnant, destroy the male calves that result, and feed the cows sufficiently to both raise another living cow (50% of which are immediately trashed) and produce viable milk.
It only costs $4/gal right now because we are paying for you with our tax dollars.
Don’t cows eat oats as well? That would be able to be turned into just oat milk.
And oat milk is the superior plant based milk so its really a win win.
Hard agree. From an environmental (low water use), supply chain (we already grow a lot of it to feed livestock), and arguably flavour perspective it’s the winner of the nut milks.
dude, people literally ate nothing but potatoes and milk for the longest time. it’s the direct reason why we had industrialization at all. because people could live off milk and potatoes without owning large plots of land. it was revolutionary. so i find it very hard to believe that we would be consuming more dairy nowadays versus our ancestors, who literally had nothing else to eat.
It’s not just the milk but also other products like cheese. "In 2001, Americans consumed 30 pounds of cheese per person, 8 times more than they did in 1909 and more than twice as much as they did in 1975. "
Which since then it’s continued to rise and in 2022 was like 42 pounds.
I love my cheese I tell ya hwat.
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Bird flu for the meats, tariffs for everything else (and probably affecting meats as well). I wonder how this will affect our food supply during Great Depression II compared to the dust bowl and tariffs in the first one.
Hopefully we don’t have the dust bowl as well, but I do wonder how prices for staples like rice and beans might go up if the meat and dairy supply is tainted…
