Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)

Today I've read about a bunch of farmers who probably had H5N1 but refuse to test, cats getting infected by drinking raw milk on farms, and a dolphin dead from it

Honestly not feeling very optimistic about this one. Wish I could trust any of the soothing things governments or media are saying about it but I won't fall into that trap again now I've seen how they behaved during the still ongoing covid pandemic

EDIT: And I should clarify I wasn't going out of my way to see H5N1 news, this is just stuff that has come across my feed organically in the 1 hour I've been awake lmao

Apr 30, 2024 at 7:26amWeb
Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Apr 30, 2024
So 2020 was covid, 2022 was monkeypox, 2024 might be bird flu. Hm. Love too live in the era of novel pandemics every 2 years
Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Apr 30, 2024
idk man maybe turning public health issues into personal responsibility BS was a bad move
Show threadDisaster MillennialApr 30, 2024
@eniko I'm terrified what 2026 is gonna have tbh
Show threadAlexander The 1stApr 30, 2024
@DisasterMillennial @eniko Calling it now - Mad Cow Disease...first spotted in bats.
Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Apr 30, 2024
@AT1ST @DisasterMillennial NOPE
Show threadAlexander The 1stApr 30, 2024

@eniko @DisasterMillennial What about Swine Flu first detected in bats?

Wait, that's the plot of Contagion, my bad.

Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Apr 30, 2024
@AT1ST @DisasterMillennial i need to rewatch that one for some good old chuckling at how naive people were
Show threadfritzoidsApr 30, 2024
@AT1ST @eniko @DisasterMillennial
excuse me, but I am going to nominate chronic wasting disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease
Chronic wasting disease - Wikipedia

Show threadAlexander The 1stApr 30, 2024
@fritzoids @eniko @DisasterMillennial Chronic Wasting Disease... finally discovered to transfer in the wild to bats. :p
Show threadMachine Lord ZeroApr 30, 2024
@eniko fucking bird flu 2: bird harder
Show threadOblomovApr 30, 2024
@MachineLordZero @eniko Chicken Invaders will be the franchise of the century
Show threadJon A. CruzApr 30, 2024
@eniko interesting times
Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Apr 30, 2024
@joncruz could do with somewhat less interest tbh
Show threadJon A. CruzApr 30, 2024

@eniko as I mentioned to me coworker today: interesting times.

May you live in...

🙀

Show threadkhaleer_artApr 30, 2024
@eniko I hope you will feel like at home there.
home full of pathogens 
Show threadSimon LucyApr 30, 2024

@eniko

H1N1/09 in 2009, called swine flu the one that pulled us into a false sense of security, we had hand sanitiser on every desk and phones were cleaned each week.

Show threadKojack 🦎Apr 30, 2024
@simon_lucy @eniko I got that one back then. I was coughing so hard I got an umbilical hernia and was coughing up blood. Not pleasant.
Show threadSimon LucyApr 30, 2024

@kojack @eniko

It shares the infect deep lung tissue behaviour of our favourite virus.

Show threadHiisikoloartApr 30, 2024

@eniko
I mean covid never left so it is compounding with all of the others, as it destroys people's immune systems and opens them up to having all of the others and their cousins cousins.

I am putting my money on mutated blsck plague though, since there has been tiniest uptic in those cases too... (I mean super small, but personally a sickness that is super visual could help people to realize that wearing a mask is a great idea and a must).

Show threadSkrrp Apr 30, 2024
@eniko I think there was some ebola at some point too.
Show threadCaptain ObservantApr 30, 2024
@eniko "THIS IS FINE" - most people
Show threadMachine Lord ZeroApr 30, 2024
@eniko Recommend sterilising the affected area, plus a buffer of not more than 10% of the size of the area around it, unless cause for further sterilising is found.
Show threadHiisikoloartApr 30, 2024
@eniko
What I have seen from my covid safe group (where they share news and studies), there has been increased detection of it in wastewater near places where dairy cows are kept....so it is definitely out there and spreading.